Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden | |
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Type | Botanical garden |
Location | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
Coordinates | 59°58′12″N 30°19′26″E / 59.97°N 30.324°E |
Area | 18.9 hectares (47 acres) |
Opened | 1714 |
The main Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, officially known as the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Komarov Botanical Institute's Botanical Garden of Peter the Great (
Overview
The garden, located in Ulitsa Professora Popova, St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded by
In 1930, the garden became subordinate to the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and, in 1931, was merged with the Botanical Museum into the Botanical Institute.
Greenhouses
The garden has 25 greenhouses constructed in 1823–1824. They are numbered from 1 to 28 (No. 5 and No. 25 don't exist; No. 10 and No. 11 are shared). Some of them are open to the public (guided visits only), including the large collections of
The chain of greenhouses encircles the Southern Yard and the Northern Yard, the latter featuring an extensive outdoor collection of Iridaceae and bulbous plants, including many species of Allium. The building of the botanical museum faces the Northern Yard in place of the non-existent greenhouse No. 5.
Park
The outer park includes a small rock garden (constructed in the end of the 19th century) located in front of the Big Palm Greenhouse, and a 0.16 km² arboretum, organized partly as an
Gallery
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Northern Yard, Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden with greenhouses and Allium garden
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Allium moly in the Northern Yard, Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
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Bust of Eduard Regel in botanical museum, Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
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Botanical research laboratory, Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden
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Palm Greenhouse, St. Petersburg Botanical Garden
See also
References
- ^ Desmond, Ray (1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 284.
- ISBN 978-0-85404-190-9.
- ^ Walther Killy (editor)Dictionary of German Biography Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10, p. 555, at Google Books
- ^ "Fedtschenko, Boris Alexjewitsch (Alexeevich) (1872-1947)". plants.jstor.org. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
- ^ David G. Frodin Guide to Standard Floras of the World: An Annotated, Geographically Arranged , p. 658, at Google Books
Sources
- Путеводитель по оранжереям Ботанического сада. Тропики. / Отв. ред. Н.А. Аврорин и Н. Н. Имханицкая. – Leningrad: Nauka, 1978.
- Ботанический сад. Leningrad: Lenizdat, 1989.
- Соколов В.С., А.А. Федорова. Ботанический институт имени В. Л. Комарова Академии наук СССР. Leningrad, 1947.
- От аптекарского огорода до Ботанического института. Leningrad: Изд-во АН СССР, 1957.
- BGCI: Arboretum of Komarov Botanical Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia
External links
- Botanical collections of Russia and the adjacent states. Database (designed for Internet Explorer only)