The Botanischer Garten Augsburg (10 hectares) is a municipal
botanical garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...
located at Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10,
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ...
,
Bavaria
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,
Germany
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. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
Today the garden contains a large
Japanese garden
are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden desi ...
, a medicinal plant garden,
rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
garden, and a crop garden. All told, it includes over 3100 species and varieties of perennials, wild
herbs,
grass
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns a ...
es, and
fern
A fern (Polypodiopsida or Polypodiophyta ) is a member of a group of vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem) that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. The polypodiophytes include all living pteridophytes exce ...
s, with 280 species and varieties of
rose
A rose is either a woody perennial flowering plant of the genus ''Rosa'' (), in the family Rosaceae (), or the flower it bears. There are over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars. They form a group of plants that can be ...
s, about 1200 species and varieties of plants under glass, and more than one million
onion
An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onio ...
plants. Other points of interest include
cacti,
euphorbia
''Euphorbia'' is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the family Euphorbiaceae. "Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to t ...
, and
succulents, as well as a sage garden and climbing plants.
See also
*
List of botanical gardens in Germany
This is a list of botanical gardens in Germany. This list is intended to contain all significant botanical gardens and arboreta in Germany.
List
See also
* List of botanical gardens
References
Zentralregister biologischer Forschungssammlung ...
References
Botanischer Garten AugsburgGarden mapQype entryWikimapia entry* Mitulla, Roswita, Wißner, Bernd, Liesz, Norbert, ''Botanischer Garten Augsburg'', Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg, 2006. .
* ''Gartenführer durch den Botanischen Garten'', Hrsg. Stadt Augsburg, Botanischer Garten.
Augsburg, Botanischer Garten
Augsburg, Botanischer Garten
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