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Plants & Flowers of the World

The tomato isn't Italian. The tulip isn't Dutch. Almost everything on your windowsill and in your garden is an immigrant. Explore where 130+ of the world's best-loved plants actually come from.

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How to read this map

Each pin sits at the approximate centre of a plant's native range — where its wild ancestors grew and where people first brought it into the garden — not where it's grown today. Background shading groups the world into six biogeographic regions; a darker region simply means more of the plants here come from it. Origins follow Kew's Plants of the World Online, USDA GRIN, and the Vavilov centres of crop origin. A few cultivated plants have no certain wild origin; those are noted as such.