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The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden or Jardim Botânico is located at the Jardim Botânico district in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. The Botanical Garden shows the diversity of Brazilian and foreign flora. There are around 6,500 species (some endangered) distributed throughout an area of 54 hectares (130 acres) as well as numerous greenhouses.
Jardim Botânico (English: Botanical Garden) is a wealthy residential neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, located north of Ipanema and Leblon, just across Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas and east of Gávea. Jardim Botânico lies in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro. [1] [2] The district got its name as it grew around the city's Botanical Garden.
The Brazilian botanical journal Rodriguésia is also named after him, as is the Barbosa Rodrigues herbarium in Itajaí. [1] On the centenary of his birth, the João Barbosa Rodrigues Botany Museum was named in his honor; it sits inside the Rio de Janeiro botanic garden.
Botanical gardens in Brazil have collections consisting entirely of Brazil native and endemic species; most have a collection that include plants from around the world. There are botanical gardens and arboreta in all states and territories of Brazil, most are administered by local governments, some are privately owned.
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Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, the Portuguese name for the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra, the Portuguese name for the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal; Jardim Botânico do Funchal, a botanical garden in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
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