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What's in the gardens Roam across our wild botanic garden full of diverse plants from around the globe and home to the Millennium Seed Bank.
The Fungarium Our Fungarium contains specimens from every part of the globe and reflects the importance of fungi as providers of food, medicines, enzymes and essential ecosystem services.
Across the school holidays, young adventurers will have the opportunity to become a planet-saving Nature Hero. Put on your cape, join our mission and collect unique new badges. Help Pip, Bud and ...
Kew Madagascar Conservation Centre We have over 70 Malagasy colleagues based at our third research site working to protect Madagascar's unique flora.
Sensory tours Designed for visitors with sight loss and their carers. This sensory experience gives you the chance to explore the Gardens through touch, smell, and description.
Adventure and discovery around the world with the plant hunters Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with ...
Step into the Millennium Seed Bank, where the real scientists are hard at work, for an exciting new interactive exhibit: Bank a Seed. Join us for hands-on fun in the fascinating world of seed science.
A breaking botanical discovery has come to light, as the famous giant waterlily genus Victoria welcomes a new species. Victoria boliviana, has been sitting in Kew’s Herbarium for 177 years, previously ...
We eat 5 billion of these yellow fruits every year in the UK. But the bananas we know and love may not be around for much longer. The bananas we see in the supermarket are a cultivar called the ...
Conserving the cousins of our crops As the Crop Wild Relatives Project comes to a close, we look back at the endeavours of the past ten years.
How Victorian plant hunters shaped British gardens The plants in your back garden might have their origins in China.