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The organisation manages botanic gardens at Kew in Richmond upon Thames in south-west London, and at Wakehurst, a National Trust property in Sussex which is home to the internationally important Millennium Seed Bank, whose scientists work with partner organisations in more than 95 countries. [2]
Seeds produced by the regenerated plants germinated at a 100% success rate, compared with 90% for modern plants. [ 10 ] According to Robin Probert of the Millennium Seed Bank , the demonstration is "by far the most extraordinary example of extreme longevity for material from higher plants" to date. [ 9 ]
A small arboretum at Bank Hall Gardens, Bretherton in Lancashire, contains a yew thought to be at least 550 years old, the oldest in Lancashire. George Anthony Legh Keck had the arboretum planted in the gardens which were abandoned from the 1970s until 1995 when Bank Hall Action Group cleared the grounds.
Seed samples of the Radyr hawkweed have been provided to the Millennium Seed Bank, the international conservation project coordinated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and plants are being carefully cultivated. [38]
Trichosanthes cucumerina is a tropical or subtropical vine.Its variety T. cucumerina var. anguina raised for its strikingly long fruit.In Asia, it is eaten immature as a vegetable much like the summer squash and in Africa, the reddish pulp of mature snake gourd is used as an economical substitute for tomato. [2]
Localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant. [1] When major climate change took place after the last ice age (c. 11,000 BC), much of the earth became subject to long dry seasons. [29] These conditions favoured annual plants which die off in the long dry season, leaving a dormant seed or tuber.
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In the 19th century, J. & G. Meakin was known for the vast quantities of cheap ironstone china it produced for the domestic English market and for export to Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States.