The Arboretum Lehmkuhlen (50 hectares) 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 ...

maintained by the Guts- und Forstverwaltung Lehmkuhlen. It is located in

Lehmkuhlen Lehmkuhlen is a municipality in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Rus ...

, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and open by appointment only. The arboretum was created between 1911-1928 by Cosmos von Milde under Conrad Hinrich IV. Freiherr von Donner, who planted approximately 1500 tree specimens from around the world. Today the arboretum contains about 3200 individual plants of approximately 1000 specimens, including mature specimens of '' Abies grandis'', '' Abies nordmanniana'', ''

Fraxinus ornus ''Fraxinus'' (), commonly called ash, is a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family, Oleaceae. It contains 45–65 species of usually medium to large trees, mostly deciduous, though a number of subtropical species are evergr ...

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Juglans ailantifolia ''Juglans ailantifolia'' (synonyms ''J. cordiformis'' and ''J. sieboldiana'' and '' J. mandshurica'' var. ''sachalinensis''), the Japanese walnut ( ja, 鬼胡桃 ''oni-gurumi''), is a species of walnut native to Japan and Sakhalin. It is a deci ...

'', '' Mespilus germanica'', '' Quercus alba'', ''

Quercus castaneifolia ''Quercus castaneifolia'', the chestnut-leaved oak, is a species of oak in the turkey oak section Quercus sect. Cerris, ''Quercus'' sect. ''Cerris''. It is native to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains of Iran, and resembles the closely related Que ...

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Quercus dentata ''Quercus dentata'', also called Japanese emperor oak or daimyo oak ( ja, 柏, ''kashiwa''; ; ko, 떡갈나무, ''tteokgalnamu'') is a species of oak native to East Asia (Japan, Korea and China). The name of the tree is often translated as "swee ...

'', and '' Quercus trojana''. A municipal cemetery has been created in its northwestern corner.

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Baumkunde entry

Ruhepark Lehmkuhlen entry
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