The Potsdam Botanical Garden ( German Botanischer Garten Potsdam , ( Botanischer Garten der Universität Potsdam ) is a botanical garden and arboretum maintained by the University of Potsdam . It has a total area of 8.5 hectares, of which 5 hectares are open to the public.
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History
The Potsdam Botanical Garden was founded in 1950 on two adjacent plots of land: part of the Sanssouci Park and the Garden of Eden (about 2.5 hectares). After World War II , the Sanssouci park was under the control of the Red Army and for a short time formed a branch of the Moscow Botanical Garden of the Academy of Sciences. In 1950, today's garden was created on the northern edge of Sanssouci, and Maulberileli divided the garden into two separate areas. In the north is the Garden of Eden, now a training and display garden; and on the south side - the building of the institute, greenhouses and open space.
Current status
Today, the garden grows about 9,000 taxa, with excellent collections of succulents (880), Begonia (89), Aroid (250), Aisov (260), Haworthia (55), Fern-shaped (230), Australian Proteus , orchids (320), chimeras , invasive species and Chinese medical herbs.
The garden grows about 4,000 outdoor taxa, including 50 species from Brandenburg that are threatened with extinction. The main outdoor sections include the arboretum ; collections from East Asia and the Eurasian steppes; Central European deciduous forest; North American Prairies; alpine garden; rhododendrons ; wildflowers; rose garden; marsh and water plants; morphological gardens illustrating the diversity of leaves, shoots , roots , flowers and fruits ; beneficial plants, including dyeing, fiber, and food crops; medicinal and aromatic plants; and protected and endangered plants from Germany.
Ten garden greenhouses (with an area of about 3,000 m²) contain about 4,600 tropical and subtropical species in a palm house, an epiphyte house, an orchid house, a fern house, a cactus house, an aquarium house, Victoria's house, etc. These houses also contain coffee and cocoa trees, sugarcane, cotton, cassava, guava, begonias and carnivorous plants.
Address
It is located directly southwest of the Orangery Palace in Maulberile 2, Potsdam , in the German state of Brandenburg . It is open daily; Entrance fees are only charged for greenhouses (2017).
Links
- Botanischer Garten Potsdam (German)
- Garden map (German)
- BGCI entry (German)
- Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum entry (German)
- Potsdam description (German)
- Qype entry