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The huge plant had been in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - and was growing in a number of aquatic collections - but it was mistakenly identified as another species. It also holds ...

Tucked away behind the Victorian Palm House at Kew Gardens in west London, a quiet allotment has been coming back to life with the arrival of spring and the help of one of its volunteers.

Works to digitise and preserve plant samples are about three quarters complete. Kew Gardens has swapped plants for poltergeists in a new light trail for Halloween. A hole several metres wide has ...

Created in partnership with the Royal Botanic Gardens ... into Kew’s archive and its world-class collections – including the herbarium of over seven million preserved plant specimens ...