Botanical Garden Düsseldorf

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Dome greenhouse
Interior view of the dome greenhouse
Orangery greenhouse

The Düsseldorf Botanical Garden is located in the south of Düsseldorf on the Himmelgeister Rheinbogen. It belongs to the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and to the institute for botany there . It was founded in 1973, built from 1974 to 1979 and is now home to around 6000 species. The focus is on plants from the temperate climate zones.

Outdoors

The size of the open field is eight hectares. In addition to the geographically subdivided areas, there are also morphologically, systematically and ecologically subdivided facilities.

Geographically divided plants

Alpinum with a view to the systematic department

Ecologically divided systems

Other facilities

Aeonium arboreum var. Atropurpureum in the rock garden / volcanic field
Pond in the morphology department

Domed structure

The centrally located domed building is a cold greenhouse with a floor area of ​​approx. 1000 m². The dome has a temperature of 12–15 ° C in winter and contains plants from areas with warm, dry summers and rainy winters. These are plants from the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands on the one hand , but also plants from Australia , New Zealand , Asia , South Africa , Chile and California on the other .

Orangery

The orangery was inaugurated on October 10, 2004 . It is primarily used to overwinter large, valuable potted plants from Mediterranean climatic regions , such as B. myrtle family , coniferous family from the southern hemisphere and pyrophytes from Australia and South Africa . It has a floor area of ​​300 m² and is 13 m high.

South Africa house

The South Africa House, which opened in 2008, is located to the left of the orangery and strives to give an insight into the diversity of the South African steppe vegetation on just 330 m². A replica of the soil conditions and some landscape details that is as realistic as possible should convey the impression of a realistic plant community.

Rooftop greenhouses

The roof greenhouses on the building of the biological institutes also belong to the botanical garden, but are not open to visitors. Above all, they are used to cultivate plant material for courses in biological and pharmaceutical institutes.

Research and Teaching

The facilities of the Botanical Garden participate in the research and teaching of biological and pharmaceutical institutes of the university. According to the requirements, plants are grown for research. In addition, various ecological and sociological studies take place in the outdoor area , which lead to diploma , examination or doctoral theses .

The Botanical Garden also participates in the Index Seminum and thus enables the free exchange of seeds between botanical gardens, university facilities and comparable public research institutions.

Others

In addition to a large collection of Canarian Aeonia there is an almost complete collection of the genus Lithops in the non-public greenhouses of the Botanical Garden , which contains 36 of the 37 species (after Desmond Thorne Cole ).

Wollemie (2018)

In 2008 the Botanical Garden received two copies of Wollemie as a gift for the opening of its new greenhouse complex. One specimen was further cultivated in a tub and the second plant was planted in the dome greenhouse. After a few years, both Araucarias formed male cones. The tree in the dome greenhouse is now six meters high and has had female cones in its crown for the first time since early 2020. Now an attempt is made to reproduce the plants sexually.

Exhibitions (selection)

The Düsseldorf Botanical Garden regularly shows exhibitions with current scientific relevance in its outdoor area and in the orangery.

  • 2019: Researchers, collectors, plant hunters - out and about with Humboldt & Co.
  • 2018: The green pharmacy - from Hortus Medicus to pharmaceutical research
  • 2017: The glow of plants - science makes secrets visible
  • 2013/2014: A botanical foray into the Bible
  • 2012: Jungle Food - From tropical plants to consumer goods
  • 2009: Darwin's Garden - Discovering Evolution
  • 2006: Miraculous discoveries between art and nature ( Kelbassas Panoptikum )
  • 2005: Gondwana - the flora of Australia and its origins

See also

Web links

Commons : Botanical Garden Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arne Claussen: Botanical feature: Blooming wool chemistry at the HHU , from February 12, 2020 ( uni-duesseldorf.de )

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 9 ″  E