Images Dated 2009

Seed storage in the vault of the Millennium Seed Bank

Seed storage in the vault of the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB)at RBG Kew's Wakehurst site in West Sussex, UK.The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership is the largest ex situ plant conservation programme in the world. The focus is on global plant life faced with the threat of extinction and plants of most use for the future. The seeds saved are conserved in seed banks as an insurance against the risk of extinction in their native habitat

© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

741. Scene in a West Australian Forest

Large trees of the Black Butt and Red Gum (Eucalyptus calophylla), with undergrowth of Grass-trees (Xanthorrhoea), Banksia, Kingia, Macrozamia Fraseri, Miq., &c. The Grass trees are commonly called Black Boys, a human specimen of which is placed by t

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Back Butt, Landscape, Large Tree, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, West Australian Forest

441. Green-flowered Ixia, and other Cape Singularities

The blue-green Ixia viridiftora, Lam., is the most noteworthy in this selection of flowers, painted at Ceres. There is, or was, a variety in cultivation with a greater infusion of green in the flowers. In front is a species of Leucospermum, and Helip

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Blue, Cape Singularities, Ceres, Flowers, Green, Ixia, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Pink, Red, Viridiftora, Yellow