Here in Britain, we have a wonderful diversity of native and introduced trees. And we have emerging diseases which threaten our trees, including the dreaded ash dieback. So of course, we have a National Tree Seed Bank to conserve tree diversity… er, no. We don’t. I’ve just learned that we don’t, from my fellow blogger Spencer Woodard at anthropogen. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Now Mark Kinver at the BBC tells us that there’s to be a new tree seedbank at Kew Gardens. I so hope this isn’t too late.
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I could have sworn there was already a seed bank, the like of which David Attenborough referred to in one of his programs a few years back. I guess that is the Millennium Seed Bank project to which Mark Kinver speaks about. Whatever, as you say, this is much needed.
Thanks Tony, you appear to be right. Here’s the Kew article (published two days ago) about starting to include tree seeds in their Seed Bank http://www.kew.org/news/tree-seeds.htm
Good stuff. Thanks for the link.
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