The Jardin botanique de l'Université de Rennes is a

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maintained by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Rennes 1, Avenue du General Leclerc,

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

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. The garden consists of

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herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sheet of paper (called ...

, and a collection of plant models: * Greenhouses - located on the university's Beaulieu campus. At the start of the 20th century, they were dispersed across Rennes with a botanical greenhouse on rue De Robien and a greenhouse for experimental biology at place Pasteur. When the science faculty moved to the Beaulieu campus in the 1960s, the greenhouses were consolidated. At present, they contain three rooms (temperate, hot and arid, hot and humid) which are used primarily for teaching and genetic research. * Herbarium - Nearly 300,000 specimens; open to researchers but not the general public. * Wooden models of plants - from the Berlin Museum in compensation for

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damages. Designed for botanical instruction, they are also remarkable works of art.

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Université de Rennes - botanical collections

Université de Rennes - greenhouses

Université de Rennes - greenhouses

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Gardens in Ille-et-Vilaine Botanical gardens in France {{France-garden-stub

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