Arboretum de Calmels
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The Arboretum de Calmels is a small arboretum
located on the grounds of the 19th-century Château de Calmels in Lacaune
, Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées
, France
. It contains regional trees such as Aesculus hippocastanum, Juglans regia, and Pinus strobus, as well as exotics including Larix leptolepis and Sequoiadendron
.
Arboretum
An arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
located on the grounds of the 19th-century Château de Calmels in Lacaune
Lacaune
Lacaune is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.-References:*...
, Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées is the largest region of metropolitan France by area, larger than the Netherlands or Denmark.Midi-Pyrénées has no historical or geographical unity...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. It contains regional trees such as Aesculus hippocastanum, Juglans regia, and Pinus strobus, as well as exotics including Larix leptolepis and Sequoiadendron
Sequoiadendron
Sequoiadendron giganteum is the sole living 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...
.