Ecological-Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth

Geschichte

The Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten der Universität Bayreuth is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Bayreuth. It is located at Universitätsstraße 30, Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany, and open daily except Saturday.The garden was founded in 1978 with a focus on ecology and environmental field research and teaching. It now contains over 10,000 plant species from around the world, organized into four major sections: Crop garden Ecology experimental plots with lysimeter and groundwater basins. Greenhouses containing woodland and grass plants, aquarium plants, succulents, and plants of tropical mountains and cloud forests. Geographic sections - plants from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The university also maintains a herbarium, established in 2001, which contains approximately 25,000 documents focusing on seed plants, but also with several thousand cryptogams, especially mosses, as well as a seed collection and library.

"Der Ökologisch-Botanische Garten ÖBG bietet eine einzigartige botanische Reise um die ganze Welt in nur wenigen Stunden. Rund 12.000 Pflanzenarten können Sie hier in naturnah gestalteten Lebensräumen erleben. Der ÖBG dient der Lehre und Forschung, dem Erhalt bedrohter Pflanzen- und Tierarten und der Öffentlichkeit für Bildung und Erholung."