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Sarah Gattiker assistant team supervisor in the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex holding a sample of musa itinerans seeds more commonly know as the Yunnan banana or the wild forest banana before banking them at a temperature around -30 degrees. (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)

Sarah Gattiker assistant team supervisor in the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex holding a sample of musa itinerans seeds more commonly know as the Yunnan banana or the wild forest banana before banking them at a temperature around -30 degrees.   (Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images)