Odesa Botanical Garden is a
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 ...
in
Odesa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative ...
,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. It is subordinated to
Odesa University
Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University ( uk, Одеський національний університет Iмені І. І. Мечникова, translit=Odeskyi natsionalnyi universytet imeni I. I. Mechnykova), located in Odesa, Ukraine, i ...
and consists of two territories: old territory and new territory.
History
The Botanical Garden in Odesa was established in 1820, on the initiative of Governor-General
Alexander Fedorovich Langeron, an expert in culture of the Sharlem Dessementom rose. In 1834–1848 it was further developed under the lead of
Alexander von Nordmann
Alexander von Nordmann (24 May 1803 in Ruotsinsalmi (now Kotka), Finland – 25 June 1866 in Helsinki) was a 19th-century Finnish biologist, who contributed to zoology, parasitology, botany and paleontology.Leikola A (2001Nordmann, Alexander vo ...
, and a Central School of Gardening with a Department of
Sericulture
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, ''Bombyx mori'' (the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth) is the most widely used and intensively studie ...
were also established.
[ALEXANDER DAVIDOVICH VON NORDMANN]
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Tree peony
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Tree peony 01.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Tree peony 02.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Tree peony 03.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Tree peony 04.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Tree peony 05.jpg
Autumn
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Gingko biloba 01.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Berberis Julianae.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Callacarpa Bodiniery “PROFUSION”.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Autumn 01.jpg
File:Odessa Botanic Garden Autumn Oak.jpg
References
Botanical gardens in Ukraine
Parks and gardens in Odesa
Science and technology in Odesa
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