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Seeds are stored in foil
packets in the vault

Conservation ~ The Seed Bank
Seed Collections
and their Uses

Seed Bank collections are perhaps the most tangible products of The Berry Botanic Garden's Conservation Program. These collections provide an "insurance policy" for wild plants: their existence means that if the populations from which they were collected should die out or be destroyed, the genetic legacy is not irrecoverably lost.

Stored seed may be used for a variety of purposes, with the most important use being, if the need arises, reintroduction back into the wild. Seed collections can also be used to learn how to germinate and propagate rare plants, information that is often not known and would otherwise require collecting additional plant material from the wild. The ultimate goal of our work is to help plants survive in the wild.

WHAT'S IN the Seed Bank?
GERMINATION STUDIES
RARE PLANT reintroductions

 

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