From BBC:An international seed bank has reached its target of collecting 10% of the world's wild plants, with seeds of a pink banana among its latest entries.
The wild banana, Musa itinerans, is a favourite of wild Asian elephants.
Seeds from the plant, which is under threat from agriculture, join 1.7 billion already stored by Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership.
The project has been described as an "insurance strategy" against future biodiversity losses.
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