University of Helsinki Botanical Garden

University of Helsinki Botanical Garden
The Palm House, built in 1889
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LocationHelsinki, Finland
Coordinates60°10′20″N 24°56′51″E / 60.17222°N 24.94750°E / 60.17222; 24.94750

The University of Helsinki Botanical Garden is an institution subordinate to the Finnish Museum of Natural History of the University of Helsinki, which maintains a collection of live plants for use in research and teaching. The Botanical Garden has two separate sites: one in Kaisaniemi[1] and one in Kumpula.[2]

The Kaisaniemi Garden is open to the public. Its greenhouse is currently home to more than 800 different species of plants and its grounds to more than 2,800 plants of different origins.

Construction on the Kumpula Garden started in 1987[2] and opened to the public in 2009.

  1. ^ Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden: Introduction, Luomos: Finnish Museum of Natural History (accessed 20 October 2022)
  2. ^ a b Kumpula Botanic Garden: Introduction to Botanic Garden, Luomos: Finnish Museum of Natural History (accessed 20 October 2022)