Kew Gardens is a botanical garden in southwest London that houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world.It was founded in 1840, its living collections includes 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, which is one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London’s top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
The Marianne North Gallery houses an enormous collection of flower paintings by the artist.
