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Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Caption

Digitisation is allowing scientists to uncover untold stories, such as that of the plants collected by World War I servicement, including this specimen of Sinapis alba collected in the Mesopotamia region in 1918.

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© RBG Kew

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