The Jardin botanique du Montet (27 hectares), sometimes also called the Jardin botanique de Nancy, is a major

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operated by the ''Conservatoire et Jardins Botaniques de Nancy''. It is located at 100, rue du Jardin Botanique,

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, and open daily; free entrance but an admission fee is charged to visit the greenhouses. The garden was inaugurated in 1975 as successor to the city's earliest botanical garden, the '' Jardin Dominique Alexandre Godron'' (founded 1758), whose plants were transferred to the new garden in 1993. Today the garden contains more than 12,000 types of plants, organized into 15 collections by themes, including sections devoted to the plants of

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, 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 ...

, alpine garden,

medicinal plant Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including Plant defense against her ...

rhododendron ''Rhododendron'' (; from Ancient Greek ''rhódon'' "rose" and ''déndron'' "tree") is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are nati ...

rose garden A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Most often it is a section of a larger garden. Designs vary tremendously and roses m ...

, and so forth, over 35

hectare The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is a ...

s (i.e. ''circa'' 86 acres). Its

greenhouse A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of Transparent ceramics, transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic condit ...

s (2500 m²) contain humid and arid rooms sheltering a variety of plants including rare

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such as ''

Miconia ascendens ''Miconia ascendens'' is a species of plant in the family Melastomataceae. It is a shrub, vine, or liana endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubla ...

'' and '' Rubus alceaefolius''.

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References

Jardin botanique du Montet

250 Ans d'Histoire des Jardins botaniques de Nancy
(French)
Un peu d'histoire ou l'origine de la botanique à Nancy (French)

Conservatoire des Jardins and Paysages entry (French)

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