Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden
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Botanical garden
A botanical garden The 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. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...
located on the south-eastern corner of the University of California
University of California
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, Los Angeles
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(UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
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) campus, California
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, United States
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. It is named after Dr. Mildred Esther Mathias Hassler (1906–1995), a noted American botanist. The director is Arthur C. Gibson.
Collections
The garden is frost-free, includes about 5,000 species in 225 families, and maintains one of the most important living botanical collections in the United States, with plant specimens from all over the world, including many different species of tropical and subtropical plants. The garden has a mature specimen of Jubaea chilensisJubaea
Jubaea chilensis is the sole extant species in the genus Jubaea in the palm family Arecaceae. It is native to southwestern South America, where it is endemic to a small area of central Chile, between 32°S and 35°S in southern Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Santiago, O'Higgins and northern Maule regions...
, the Chilean Wine Palm, the largest palm tree species in the world.
See also
- List of botanical gardens in the United States
- California native plantsCalifornia native plantsCalifornia native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the arrival of European explorers and colonists in the late 18th century...
External links
- The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden - Official website