The
Jardin botanique Floralpina is a private
botanical gardenBotanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and...
specializing in
alpine plantAlpine plants are plants whose natural habitat is mountain slopes, above the tree line approaching the line of perpetual snow. One of the most famous European Alpine flowers is the Leontopodium alpinum, also known as Edelweiss.- External links :*...
s. It is located at 59, Avenue du Mémorial des Fusillés,
ArrasArras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
, Pas de Calais,
Nord-Pas de CalaisNord-Pas-de-Calais is one of the 26 regions of France. It consists of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, in the north and has a border with Belgium. Until the end of the 20th century both the region and the department were called Nord...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
. It is open on the last Sunday in May and by appointment.
The garden was established in 1953 by Jean-Michel Spas. Today it is one of the most extensive collections of
alpine plantAlpine plants are plants whose natural habitat is mountain slopes, above the tree line approaching the line of perpetual snow. One of the most famous European Alpine flowers is the Leontopodium alpinum, also known as Edelweiss.- External links :*...
s in France, containing about 4,100 alpine
taxa|thumb|270px|[[African elephants]] form a widely-accepted taxon, the [[genus]] LoxodontaA taxon is a group of organisms, which a taxonomist adjudges to be a unit. Usually a taxon is given a name and a rank, although neither is a requirement. Defining what belongs or does not belong to such a...
(2,500 genera) representing 3,700
speciesIn biology, a species is:* a taxonomic rank or* a unit at that rank ....
and 400 cultivars, with 450 taxa of
Saxifraga and many threatened species.
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The
Jardin botanique Floralpina is a private
botanical gardenBotanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and...
specializing in
alpine plantAlpine plants are plants whose natural habitat is mountain slopes, above the tree line approaching the line of perpetual snow. One of the most famous European Alpine flowers is the Leontopodium alpinum, also known as Edelweiss.- External links :*...
s. It is located at 59, Avenue du Mémorial des Fusillés,
ArrasArras is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. The historic centre of the Artois region, its local speech is characterized as a Picard dialect...
, Pas de Calais,
Nord-Pas de CalaisNord-Pas-de-Calais is one of the 26 regions of France. It consists of the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, in the north and has a border with Belgium. Until the end of the 20th century both the region and the department were called Nord...
,
FranceFrance , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...
. It is open on the last Sunday in May and by appointment.
The garden was established in 1953 by Jean-Michel Spas. Today it is one of the most extensive collections of
alpine plantAlpine plants are plants whose natural habitat is mountain slopes, above the tree line approaching the line of perpetual snow. One of the most famous European Alpine flowers is the Leontopodium alpinum, also known as Edelweiss.- External links :*...
s in France, containing about 4,100 alpine
taxa|thumb|270px|[[African elephants]] form a widely-accepted taxon, the [[genus]] LoxodontaA taxon is a group of organisms, which a taxonomist adjudges to be a unit. Usually a taxon is given a name and a rank, although neither is a requirement. Defining what belongs or does not belong to such a...
(2,500 genera) representing 3,700
speciesIn biology, a species is:* a taxonomic rank or* a unit at that rank ....
and 400 cultivars, with 450 taxa of
Saxifraga and many threatened species. It also contains fine tree specimens including
Cedrus libani,
Ginkgo biloba,
Metasequoia glyptostroboidesMetasequoia glyptostroboides is a fast-growing, critically endangered deciduous tree, sole living species of the genusMetasequoia, and one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. It is native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China. Although shortest of the redwoods, it grows to at least in...
,
Pinus cembra,
SequoiadendronSequoiadendron giganteum is the sole species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens and Metasequoia glyptostroboides Sequoiadendron...
, and
Taxodium distichumTaxodium distichum is a species of conifer native to the southeastern United States.-Characteristics:...
.