The Arboretum de Camors (1 hectare) is an

arboretum An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, man ...

located within the Forêt Domaniale de Camors at Lambel,

Camors Camors (; br, Kamorzh) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. Geography The village is situated in the heart of a forest-covered region called the Landes de Lanvaux. The village centre is located south of P ...

Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastli ...

, Bretagne,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. It is open daily without charge. The arboretum appears to have been created before 1945 along the railroad tracks that pass Lambel, where the

Office National des Forêts The National Forests Office (french: Office national des forêts), or ONF, is a Government of France agency that manages the state forests, city forests and biological reserves. ONF is based in Paris. The office is responsible for the sustaina ...

planted 74

conifer Conifers are a group of conifer cone, cone-bearing Spermatophyte, seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the phylum, division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single ...

varieties. Today, some have disappeared and many others were damaged by a storm in October 1987. The arboretum appears to be in decay and used primarily as a walking path.

References

Culture.gouv.fr entry (French)

Tela-Botanica wiki

Camors, Arboretum de Camors, Arboretum de {{France-garden-stub

See also

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