The Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) is the largest ex situ conservation project ever conceived. Its partners will have banked seed from 10% of the world's wild plant species by the end of the decade. These will not be just any plants, but will include the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man...
You can read more about Kew's seed preservation project
at their website. The photos above are from
a marvelous gallery of 18 images at The Guardian; they come from
Seeds - Time Capsules of Life, published by the Royal Botanical Gardens.
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