What Kew does best: painstakingly growing the kind of plants we'd never normally see, unless we travelled there. The giant Madeiran squill currently flowering in the Davies Alpine House.
Earlier this year, a Kew scientist saved the world's smallest waterlily - only a centimetre wide - from extinction.
And how does this sound? A job resuscitating rare plants which involves feeding the seeds with pineapple juice and mashed banana, hoping they'll germinate, and then waiting five years for them to flower.
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