The Giardino Botanico della Majella (3500 m2 ), also known as the Giardino Botanico Michele Tenore , is a botanical garden located in the Majella National Park (Parco Nazionale della Majella) at Via Colle della Madonna I-66010, Lama dei Peligni , Province of Chieti , Abruzzo , Italy . It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.
The garden was established in 1995, and named in honor of botanist Michele Tenore . It now contains about 500 varieties of plants, on a site of 9000 square meters.[ 1]
It is organized into four sections as follows:
Flowers and vegetation of Majella
Plants of economic importance
Endangered plants of Abruzzo - including Adonis vernalis Astragalus aquilanus Centaurea sphaerocephala Crocus reticulatus Goniolimon italicum Iris marsica Phlomis fruticosa Pinus nigra di Fara San Martino , Salvia officinalis angustifolia , Stachys thirkey Salix foetida Salix pentandra
Heritage agricultural plants
See also
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Other sources
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