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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.

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