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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.
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.
The international identification code for the garden is CURIT. Skyline of Curitiba by Botanical Garden at night. The garden during the build-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Established in 1991, the Jardim Botânico de Curitiba was designed in the style of French formal gardens. Upon entering the park, visitors are greeted by expansive gardens ...
The Botanical Garden of Curitiba were designed in the French style and are a source of botanic reference in Brazil. In the gardens, there is a greenhouse, with a metal frame and a fountain. Visitors can hike along paths through a native forest. The native forest is filled with paths for hiking. There is an exhibition space, a library, a theatre ...
A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only.
The Adolfo Ducke Botanical Garden was founded on October 24, 2000. Occupying 5% of the Adolfo Ducke Forest Reserve, it has 5 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi) distributed in a strip 500 metres (1,600 ft) wide and 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long along the southern edge and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) along the western edge of the Adolpho Ducke Forest Reserve. [1]
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The Serra da Mantiqueira is a part of the Atlantic Forest ecosystem. Despite the clearing of the land for livestock raising, the difficult access to many areas has made possible for sanctuaries of well-preserved forest to still exist, with trees such as the jacarandá, Spanish cedar, canjerana, guatambu, ipê, canela, angico, jequitibá, and also the araucaria, more typical of subtropical ...