Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership celebrates banking its 24,200th species, a Yunnan banana seed - a pink wild banana from China which is an important staple for wild Asian elephants (Musa itinerans). Royal Botanical Gardens Kew is celebrating collecting, banking and conserving 10% of the world's wild plant species. Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place, East Sussex. David Hickmott (Seed Conservation Assistant) in the vaults which are kept at minus 20 degrees centigrade. October 15, 2009. Photo: Edmond Terakopian