Botanical Garden "Botania" ( Fin. Botania ) is an urban botanical garden located in the city of Joensuu (province of North Karelia , Finland ). The Botanical Garden is popular due to tropical butterflies freely flying in the spring-summer season and a large collection of equatorial and tropical plants (more than 1000 species), including bamboos , creepers , predator plants, and touch-sensitive plants. In addition, the exhibition has collections of insects , thematic stands and talking parrots .
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Content
- 1 History
- 2 Review
- 3 Butterflies
- 4 hours of operation
- 5 Links
History
The Botanical Garden was founded in 1955 at the University of Joensuu (today - the University of Eastern Finland ), in 1985 it was transferred to a new building, where it is located to this day. The main purpose of opening the botanical garden was the need for scientific research in biology and forestry , but today the volume of scientific research has slightly decreased. In recent years, the botanical garden has become an attractive tourist attraction.
Overview
Almost all the plants in the botanical garden were grown from seeds obtained from other botanical gardens and research centers and institutes around the world. The total area of the greenhouse space is 570 m², it is divided into five sectors that simulate different climatic conditions:
- tropics,
- subtropics in the summer rainy season,
- subtropics in the winter rainy season,
- temperate zone (in summer, butterflies fly freely here),
- desert.
More than 700 plant species are grown in the greenhouse sector.
Around the greenhouse is a garden open in the summer season. The area of the garden is about three hectares, it is also divided into five sectors in which different plants are grown:
- Cereals , root vegetables , vegetables , berries , fruits : a total of 130 species.
- Aromatic herbs: 120 species.
- Poisonous plants : 50 species.
- Medicinal plants : 40 species.
- Ornamental plants : 300 species.
Butterflies
In the spring-summer season, from early April to mid-October, butterflies fly freely in the temperate zone sector, and visitors have the opportunity to get acquainted with all stages of the development of butterflies - from the larva to the dying butterfly. The life cycle of a butterfly is small and ranges from only a few days to several weeks.
Butterflies are imported to Botania from a large butterfly farm in Stratford-upon-Avon (UK).
Opening hours
The botanical garden is open all year. Opening hours: Wed-Thu 10-20, Fri-Sat 10-23, Sun 10-15.
12/22/2018 - 12/26/2018 Botania is closed.