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Plants Across the Sea exhibition at Kew traces 400 years of transatlantic plant traffic
A Royal Botanic Gardens Kew exhibit chronicles cross Atlantic plant exchange from early settlers bringing apples and hollyhocks to Europe to later American collectors like John Bartram and David Douglas. The display highlights hitchhiking seeds, imports to Virginia and New England, and sustained ties between Kew and American botanists since 1841.
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John Bartram
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Mark Catesby
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