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Publié le 22.01.2024
Photo du jardin des plantes/©François DECAENS

Botanical Gardens

Created in 1736 as a university demonstration garden for teaching botany at medical and pharmacy colleges, it became one of the oldest botanical gardens in France over 200 years later.  Today, it is a public garden with an orangery and greenhouses (8,000 species represented): a hot greenhouse with exotic plants (coffee, banana, vanilla, giant water lilies from Latin America, etc.), a temperate greenhouse, a cold greenhouse, and succulents.

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