The Kew Gardens in London is a world-renowned botanical garden and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, the gardens cover an area of 121 hectares and feature over 30,000 different species of plants. Visitors can explore the gardens' many green
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. 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.