Curitiba Botanical Garden

 Curitiba Botanical Garden

The Jardim Botânico Fanchette Rischbieter or Jardim Botânico de Curitiba ( Botanical Garden of Curitiba ), is a Botanical Garden and arboretum , located in Curitiba capital of the southern state of Paraná , Brazil.

It houses part of the campus of the Federal University of Paraná , and has a large forest with preserved native Atlantic Forest.

The international identification code of the "Jardim Botânico Fanchette Rischbieter" as a member of the "Botanic Gardens Conservation International" ( BGCI ), as well as the initials of its herbarium is CURIT

The botanical garden, which covers an area of 245,000 square metres, was opened in 1991. Jaime Lerner, a youthful 33-year-old architect who was elected mayor in 1971, championed and created it. The garden was one of several projects he undertook to reform and improve the city's services.

According to the anecdote, when the garden was opened to the public and people saw so many wonderful plants together, they dedicated themselves to uprooting and taking them home, but the mayor had planned it and every time a plant disappeared, another was placed in his place, until no more were taken.

Collections

Among its collections are the following:

Native plants, in order to increase public appreciation of the area's native flora, the Garden of Native Plants of Curitiba was established in 2007; all of the plants in the garden are native, even the herbs. Despite the lack of unusual plants, the garden attracts a large number of butterflies and other pollinating insects.

A natural plant garden in the Curitiba region.

Araucarias trees are indigenous to the area.

Plants of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlántica). Once the second biggest forest in Brazil, the Atlantic Forest now accounts for fewer than 5% of the country's woods. 3 This is Curitiba's natural vegetation.

Araucaria humid forests is a southern subtropical humid forest ecoregion.

Brazil, it is currently one of the most threatened biomes in the world, it corresponds to approximately 40% of the vegetation of the Curitiba Botanical Garden. Plants from the forest of the Serra do Mar de Paraná, this garden was created with the purpose of protecting biodiversity. Next to one of the lakes, 200 seedlings of native trees and shrubs from the Serra do Mar de Paraná were transplanted; The Serra do Mar is a 1,500-kilometer-long system of lines of minor sierras with steep mountains in the southeast of Brazil, which runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean coast . The species in the garden are going to be cultivated on the coast of Paraná in their natural location and then transplanted to their current location. Nebular River (cloud forest), Plants of the Paraná river basin , Medicinal and aromatic plants.

Infrastructure Cultural Space Frans Krajcberg The conservatory is surrounded by gardens with elaborate French-style geometric patterns and features an art nouveau-style metal framework. The Botanical Museum of the Curitiba Botanical Garden has display space, a library, and an auditorium. The Botanical Museum's herbarium has over 300,000 specimens, making it the greatest collection of Brazilian flora. It was founded in 1965 from the personal collection of the botanical museum's director, botanist Gerdt Hatschbach. The Frans Krajcberg cultural area is located beyond the greenhouse and has a permanent display of 114 sculptures by this Polish-born and Brazilian-adopted artist.