Botanical Garden of Vilnius University

Botanical Garden of Vilnius University is a botanical garden situated in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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History

The garden was established by professor Jean-Emmanuel Gilibert of Vilnius University in 1781. In 1832 the Vilnius University and Botanical Garden were closed. In 1919, the Botanical Garden of the Polish Stefan Batory University was started in a new location, in Vingis. In 1975 territory of the garden was expanded. Since then the main part of the garden is in Kairėnai which is situated in Antakalnis elderate of Vilnius. There is also a department of the garden in Vingis Park.

Collection

The collection of the botanical garden includes 11,000 taxa of plants, including:

2,500 taxa in Department of Dendrology
3,000 taxa in Department of Plant Systematic and Geography
3,200 taxa in Department of Floriculture
300 taxa in Department of Plant Genetic
750 taxa in Department of Pomology
100 taxa in Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Isolated Tissue Cultures

About one third of the Lithuanian vascular plant inhabit the territory of the garden.

Research

The botanical garden carries out research in the areas of biotechnology, horticulture, molecular genetics, conservation, ethnobotany, systematics and taxonomy.