BBC NEWS | UK | Kew to open botanical art gallery - Annotated

• London’s Kew Gardens is to open the world’s first gallery dedicated to botanical art works - some of which have never been seen by the public.

• Kew has a vast collection of more than 200,000 art works.

  Some of the illustrations of extinct species are thought to be the only surviving record.

• “With one quarter of the world’s species of flowering plants threatened by extinction in the next 50 years, Kew has a vital role to play to inspire and deliver science-based plant conservation. “