Our usual perception of botanic gardens is of a place to visit at the weekend to admire the plants. In fact they have a very important conservation role as well. Kew Gardens pictured here has 85,000 living plants and a herbarium of six million species.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 19, Issue 3, 1 August 1988, Page 25
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45Our usual perception of botanic gardens is of a place to visit at the weekend to admire the plants. In fact they have a very important conservation role as well. Kew Gardens pictured here has 85,000 living plants and a herbarium of six million species. Forest and Bird, Volume 19, Issue 3, 1 August 1988, Page 25
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