The future of tens of thousands of plants has been ensured by various seed banks around the world, including the Kew Millennium Seed Bank and The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. A chilling book of these precious seeds has been published by Kew and collaborating photographers and researchers Wolfgang Stuppy and Rob Kessler. A slideshow put together by Paul Kerley and narrated by Mr. Stuppy hit the BBC today. Likely, it will blow your macrophotographic mind as much as it did mine.