Palm House, Kew Gardens

The Palm House is a large palm house in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, that specialises in growing palms and other tropical and subtropical plants. It was completed in 1848. Many of its plants are endangered or extinct in the wild.

Features include an upper walkway, taking the visitor into the branches of the larger plants.
Kew also has the even larger "Temperate House", kept at lower temperatures.

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