Botanical garden of Düsseldorf

Botanischer Garten Düsseldorf
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The Botanischer Garten Düsseldorf, also known as the Botanischer Garten der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and the Botanischer Garten der Universität Düsseldorf, is a botanical garden of 8 hectares maintained by the University of Düsseldorf. It is located at Universitätsstraße 1, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and open daily in the warmer months; admission is free.

The garden was established in 1974 and currently contains about 6000 species, with a focus on plants of temperate climates. Its outdoor gardens are organized as follows:

  • Geographic gardens - alpine garden, Central Europe, Caucasus, Northeast Asia, Japan, China, North America, and South America.
  • Ecological gardens - heath, moor, pine forest, fruit trees, and wild flowers.
  • Other gardens - systematic garden, medicinal garden, crops, cottage garden, conifers, summer flowers, plants of volcanic soils, morphology, endangered species, and carnivorous plants.

The garden also contains a greenhouse complex including:

See also

References

  • Botanischer Garten Düsseldorf
  • Garden map
  • Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum entry
  • Düsseldorfer Onlinemagazin article
  • BGCI entry
  • Qype entry with photos

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