Images Dated 2009 July

Millennium Seed Bank, (MSB)

Entrance to the Seed Bank Vault, Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst site, RBG Kew

© RBG Kew

Conservation, Interior, Kew Gardens, Millenium Seed Bank, Msb, Rbg Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Seedbank, Storage, Vault, Vertical, Wakehurst

419. Not one Flower, but many in one, Van Staadens Kloof

As mentioned in the description of 410, there are numerous flowers in the separate inflorescences of the Proteaceae, surrounded by coloured leaves or bracts. This is Protea cynaroides, Linn. which has the largest flower heads of its genus, and it be

© RBG KEW

Art, Artist, Bird, Butterflies, Flowers, Leaves, Marianne North, Painting, Pink