Chester M. Alter Arboretum
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The Chester M Alter Arboretum is an arboretum
located on the campus of the University of Denver
, 2467 South Vine Street, Denver, Colorado
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In 1999 the University Park campus was named an arboretum in honor of Chancellor Emeritus Chester M Alter. It now includes a "living fossil forest" that features the nearest living relatives of fossilized plants found in the Rocky Mountains
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The Arboretum consists of over 1,800 trees, including many rare specimens for Colorado. Specimens include: Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron gigantium), Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), Japanese Cryptomeria (Cryptomeria japonica), Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani), Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum), as well as numerous species of Maples (Acer)and Oaks (Quercus).
In addition to the numerous trees the Arboretum also features a large Water Garden. The Water Garden features many Colorado native waterlilys as well as exotic aquatic plants.
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
located on the campus of the University of Denver
University of Denver
The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....
, 2467 South Vine Street, Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
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In 1999 the University Park campus was named an arboretum in honor of Chancellor Emeritus Chester M Alter. It now includes a "living fossil forest" that features the nearest living relatives of fossilized plants found in the Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains are a major mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in western Canada, to New Mexico, in the southwestern United States...
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The Arboretum consists of over 1,800 trees, including many rare specimens for Colorado. Specimens include: Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron gigantium), Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), Japanese Cryptomeria (Cryptomeria japonica), Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani), Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum), as well as numerous species of Maples (Acer)and Oaks (Quercus).
In addition to the numerous trees the Arboretum also features a large Water Garden. The Water Garden features many Colorado native waterlilys as well as exotic aquatic plants.