Unbelievable Acres Botanic Gardens
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Unbelievable Acres Botanic Gardens (1 ha / 2.5 acres) is a private, nonprofit botanical garden
located at 475 63rd Trail North, West Palm Beach
, Florida. Tours are given between 1 and 5 p.m. on the second Saturday of every month. An admission fee is charged.
The garden was established in 1970 by Gene Joyner, who has developed and maintained it since. It is now one of Florida's largest private collections of tropical fruit
trees, with a 30 m (100 ft) high tree canopy.
The garden contains some 2000 varieties of plants, including more than 170 varieties of fruit trees, with 92 types of citrus
, and 35 types of banana
and plantain
trees. It also includes orchids, bromeliads, palms
, and fern
s, as well as less well-known plants such as jaboticaba trees.
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 at 475 63rd Trail North, West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach, Florida
West Palm Beach, is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and is the most populous city in and county seat of Palm Beach County, the third most populous county in Florida with a 2010 population of 1,320,134. The city is also the oldest incorporated municipality in South Florida...
, Florida. Tours are given between 1 and 5 p.m. on the second Saturday of every month. An admission fee is charged.
The garden was established in 1970 by Gene Joyner, who has developed and maintained it since. It is now one of Florida's largest private collections of tropical fruit
Fruit
In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
trees, with a 30 m (100 ft) high tree canopy.
The garden contains some 2000 varieties of plants, including more than 170 varieties of fruit trees, with 92 types of citrus
Citrus
Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae. Citrus is believed to have originated in the part of Southeast Asia bordered by Northeastern India, Myanmar and the Yunnan province of China...
, and 35 types of banana
Banana
Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....
and plantain
Plantain
Plantain is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa. The fruit they produce is generally used for cooking, in contrast to the soft, sweet banana...
trees. It also includes orchids, bromeliads, palms
Arecaceae
Arecaceae or Palmae , are a family of flowering plants, the only family in the monocot order Arecales. There are roughly 202 currently known genera with around 2600 species, most of which are restricted to tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate climates...
, and fern
Fern
A fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants belonging to the botanical group known as Pteridophyta. Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem . They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants...
s, as well as less well-known plants such as jaboticaba trees.