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European colonialism has had a lasting legacy on how plants are distributed around the world
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Scientists have found more ‘alien species’ today in regions that were once key parts of European empires.
Kew Gardens in London was at the centre of a huge colonial plant trade. 'The world's metropolis', Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, 1855 https://theconversation.com/european-colonialism-has-had-a-lasting-legacy-on-how-plants-are-distributed-around-the-world-192660 https://theconversation.com/european-colonialism-has-had-a-lasting-legacy-on-how-plants-are-distributed-around-the-world-192660 Link copied Share article Share article Copy link Email Bluesky Facebook WhatsApp Messenger LinkedIn X (Twitter) Print article A few years ago, one of us (Guillaume) moved to the town of Stellenbosch, in South Africa,
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