This image of the flowering house plant Medinilla magnifica by artist Margaret Ann Eden is now on display at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in London.
It is part of an exhibition in the world's first year-round gallery dedicated to botanical art. The exhibition features works from Kew Gardens' 200,000-piece collection as well as from Shirley Sherwood, who has collected images from around 200 artists. The gardens' officials say that the Sherwood collection is possibly the most important private collection of modern botanical art in the world.
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Botanical art gallery opens in London. Nature 452, 925 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452925f
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