Botanical garden: Quick Facts

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Maymyo: botanical gardens

Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

Longwood Gardens

Copenhagen University Botanical Garden

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum

Desprez, Louis-Jean: Botanical Garden's conservatory

The exotic plants of Trebah Garden

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Key People

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John Bartram

American naturalist

Bernard de Jussieu, detail from an engraving

Bernard de Jussieu

French botanist

greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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