Kew Gardens

The Kew's growing seed & pollen collection

ddobbs | April 13, 2009

Kew Gardens (that is, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew) is trying to collect and bank the seeds and pollen from 10% of the world's plants -- a nice 21st-century continuation of the stunning collecting effort that started in the 1700s and helped supply evidence, via Joseph Dalton Hooker, that proved crucial to Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection. The Guardian has put up a nice photo gallery of some of the seeds they've collected so far. A few: Seed of wild spider flower (or spider wisp) Photo: Rob Kesseler & Madeline Harley Himalayan iris pollen. Photo: Rob Kesseler…

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