Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (brand name Kew) is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. An internationally important botanical research and education institution, it employs 723 staff (FTE).
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See also
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's two main sites:
- Curtis's Botanical Magazine, an illustrated publication which began in 1787 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- GrassBase
- Index Kewensis, a massive index of plant names started and maintained by Kew Gardens
- Joseph Dalton Hooker, who succeeded his father, William Jackson Hooker, as director in 1865
- Kew Bulletin, a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- The Great Plant Hunt, a primary school science initiative created by Kew Gardens, commissioned and funded by the Wellcome Trust
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