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Botanical Horticulturalist Alberto Trinco with an upturned leaf from Kew Garden's giant water lilies Victoria Amazonica, which are the world's largest water lily species, at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, in Richmond, London, on Sept. 15, 2021. Dominic Lipinski/PA
London’s Kew Gardens has secured a new world record for the “largest collection of living plants at a single-site botanic garden.”
The Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, London, has gained recognition from the Guinness World Records (GWR) for a feat in biodiversity, housing a total of 16,900 species of plants within its 320-acre site.