Microscope Slide Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG, Kew)

This collection holds around 150,000 specimens from a diverse range of plant taxa, particularly from seed-producing plants. The slides include leaf surfaces and sections, pollen, wood, woody roots and chromosomes. Regarding CITES-listed flora, according to the information provided to the Secretariat, this collection includes high resolution scans of all microscope slides of CITES-listed woods as well as a set of photos of the Dalbergia spp.