Bogotá Botanical Garden
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The Bogotá Botanical Garden, aka José Celestino Mutis
Botanical Garden , is Colombia's
biggest botanical garden, located in Bogotá
. It features greenhouses in which plants from every Colombian region, altitude, and climate are exhibited. Among other curiosities, it includes the biggest aquatic Amazonian
flower and the Palma de cera, the Colombian national tree.
The municipally owned park has an artificial waterfall and labs for studying plants and flowers. It also has public services such as a library and a tourist information desk.
José Celestino Mutis
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Botanical Garden , is Colombia's
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
biggest botanical garden, located in Bogotá
Bogotá
Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district...
. It features greenhouses in which plants from every Colombian region, altitude, and climate are exhibited. Among other curiosities, it includes the biggest aquatic Amazonian
Amazonas Department
Amazonas is a department of Colombia in the south of the country. Its capital is Leticia. Its name comes from the Amazon River that drains much in the department and the rainforest that covers a large part of the department....
flower and the Palma de cera, the Colombian national tree.
The municipally owned park has an artificial waterfall and labs for studying plants and flowers. It also has public services such as a library and a tourist information desk.
Other species found
- Amazonian Victoria Regia waterlilyVictoria (waterlily)Victoria is a genus of water lilies, in the plant family Nymphaeaceae, with very large green leaves that float on the water's surface. Victoria amazonica has a leaf that is up to 3 m in diameter, on a stalk 7–8 m in length...
- MagnoliaMagnoliaMagnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol....
- OakOakAn oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...
- PinePinePines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...