Kew Gardens in south-west London is celebrating another Guinness World Record title, as it now houses the largest living plant collection on Earth. Here, botanical horticulturalist Will Spoelstra tends to the gardens’ oldest plant, a prickly cycad (Encephalartos altensteinii) brought from South Africa in 1775. All photos: PA

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