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structure at 4,880m
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, 110m long and 19m high. It is also one of the world's most import-
ant, featuring the first use of wrought iron ribs in an architectural building. Kew's highlights
include the world's tallest flagstaff at 69m, an orangery, follies, temples, statues, water fea-
tures, the world's oldest orchid collection, lion trees from 1762, a Chilean wine palm that is
the world's tallest indoor tree, herbaceous bedding, an arboretum, a treetop walkway 200m
long and 18m high, an explorer train, rainforest to desert environments and a herbarium that
is used as the international standard for plant identification, housing an eighth of the world's
known species.
The Ovaltine narrowboat mooring at Brentford
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