Botanical Garden, via Luca Ghini

Esterno (Museo Orto botanico)
Esterno (Museo Orto botanico)
The garden was born mainly with a didactic intent, to begin a collection of seeds, plants and a herbarium that would collect specimens from the territory and then from all over the world. As soon as you enter, going left you find the cedar garden divided into flowerbeds intersected by paths, built in 1783.

  • The fan tree, one of the oldest in the garden, was planted in 1787, its trunk has a circumference of about 4.5 meters.
  • The wisteria, an ornamental creeper, is near the border wall of the garden and its main trunk has reached 120 cm in circumference.
  • The camelia japonica was introduced in European gardens in the eighteenth century.
  • The camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora is originally from China, Japan and Indochina.
  • The American vine originally comes from China and Japan.
  • The magnolia, planted in 1787, is believed to be the first introduced in Tuscany. It arrived from London together with the fan tree and a cedar from Lebanon.
  • The American sequoia.
  • Bamboo. There are many different species, most of them are native to Asia and can be found at various altitudes, even at 3000 m. in the Himalayas.
  • The Ginko biloba, a plant native to China, of very ancient origins, is considered a fossil plant.
  • The botanical garden has a seed bank that preserves plants threatened with extinction, such as Sophora toromiro, the extinct tree of Easter Island.

In the succulent greenhouse you can find a wide variety of plants such as, for example:
  • The Cereus peruvianus, from the Andes.
  • The saguaro from the deserts of central and north America.
  • African euphorbias, from Madagascar...
  • The Echinocactus grusonii, from Mexico.

There are also many greenhouses, including the tropical one where we find, for example:
  • Ficus repens originally from China, Japan and Australia.
  • Orchids typical of warm and humid environments such as tropical rainforests.
7 ROOMS RELAIS
40m
Santa Maria, 83
Recapito 050 9912004
BED & TOWER
60m
Santa Maria, 77
Recapito 389 3116049
LOCANDA DEL TURISTA
90m
Piazza Arcivescovado, angolo Via Corta
Recapito 050 560932
IL CANGURO
50m
Via Santa Maria, 151
Recapito 050 561942
RISTORANTE GIAPPONESE ZEN
80m
V. S. Maria, 105
Recapito 050 555046
LA LANTERNA
90m
Via Santa Maria, 113
Recapito 050 834651,050 830305
RISTORANTE OSTERIA DEI MILLE
100m
Via Dei Mille, 32
Recapito 050 556263
Sabato botanico settembre 2023
Orto Botanico
16-09-2023
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22-03-2024
29-03-2024
Sabato botanico luglio 2023
Orto Botanico
15-07-2023

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