The Civico Orto Botanico di Trieste (90 hectares, cultivated area 10,000 m²) 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 via Marchesetti 2,

Trieste Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provi ...

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. The garden was established in 1842 when the city first experimented with plantations of the

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n black pine. By 1861 a botanical garden began to take shape with species collected from the

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and

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. In 1873 it opened to the public, in 1877 published its first catalog of 254 plants (''Delectus seminum quae Hortus Botanicus tergestinus pro mutual communicatione offert''), and in 1903 became a public institution attached to the Museum of Natural History. In 1986 the garden was forced to close to the public for lack of resources, but in 2001 part of the garden reopened. Today the garden includes several sections, including one devoted to the natural flora of

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, and adjacent territories. Other sections include historic flower beds, poisonous plants, ornamental plants, plants magical, garden of simples, lotus flowers, food plants, formal garden, dyeing plants, and useful plants. It also contains greenhouses (110 m²).

References

Civico Orto Botanico - Comune di Trieste (Italian)

Civico Orto Botanico di Trieste - Orto Botanico d'Italia (Italian)
Botanical gardens in Italy Buildings and structures in Trieste Gardens in Friuli-Venezia Giulia 1842 establishments in the Austrian Empire {{Italy-garden-stub

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