Police have launched an appeal to trace a rare plant that has been stolen from one of the greenhouses at Kew Gardens, south-west London.
A Nymphaea thermarum, the smallest water lily in the world and extinct in the wild, is believed to have been stolen between 8.30am and 2.55pm last Thursday at the Princess of Wales Conservatory, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
Experts believe the culprits would have had to dig or pull up the plant from a shallow pond.
The Guardian: World's smallest water lily stolen from Kew Gardens
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