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Kew Gardens
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botanical garden and world's largest collection of living plants in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Key facts
- Type
- Botanical
- Location
- London Borough of Richmond upon Thames , England
- Area
- 121 hectares (300 acres)
- Opened
- 1759 ( 1759 )
- Visitors
- 2,250,355 in 2025
- Species
- > 50,000
- Public transit
- Kew Gardens
- Website
- www .kew .org
- Official name
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Criteria
- Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv)
- Inscription
- 2003 (27th Session )
- Buffer zone
- 350 ha (860 acres)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- garden
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- Area
- 272.32
- Body of water
- River Thames
- Operator
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Location
- Kew
- Official website
- www.kew.org
- Image
- Palmhuis.jpg
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- Commons category
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- topic's main category
- Category:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- Commons gallery
- Kew Gardens
- social media followers
- 159007
- different from
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- P8168
- El'ad
- OS grid reference
- TQ1793776087
- has facility
- accessible toilet
- native label
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- P12749
- Trifolium thalii
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kew Gardens Temperate House from the Pagoda Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London founded in 1759 that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
Kew Gardens, together with the botanic gardens at Wakehurst in Sussex, are managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, an internationally important botanical research and education institution that employs over 1,100 staff and is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kew Gardens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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