JardÃn Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo
Jardin Botanico Canario Viera y Clavijo is the full name of the botanical garden on the island of Gran Canaria. Where " Jardin Botanico Canario " for " Botanical Garden of the Canaries ," while with the suffix " Viera y Clavijo " polymath José Viera y Clavijo is honored.
Viera y Clavijo Botanical Garden is located in the northeast of Gran Canaria in Tafira Alta, about 7 km southwest of the capital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It is therefore of Las Palmas from inland, a few kilometers from Sta. Brigida.
History
The foundation of this botanical garden may downright as the life's work of the Swedish- Spanish botanist Erik Ragnar Svensson (1910-1973) are referred to. Svensson has long sought the optimal location for a botanical garden in the Canaries, which can accommodate as many different endemic plant species in the Canary Islands as possible simultaneously. This he finally found on a steep slope of the Barranco de Guiniguada near Tafira Alta, with waterfalls and natural rock caves. Then began the work in 1952 to plant the garden; In 1959, the Jardin Botanico Canario Viera y Clavijo was opened. Svensson was the first director of the botanical garden. After his death in 1973 1974 David Bramwell became his successor.
Description
The garden is home to many of the approximately 500 endemic plant species in the Canary Islands and provides through research and assistance for conservation programs. Since 1983, the garden contains a seed bank, which, inter alia, the seeds of about 400 on the Canary Islands and other Macaronesian islands endemic tree species are kept.
Viera y Clavijo Botanical Garden is about 27 hectares. Significant parts of the plant are the Jardín de las Islas ( "Garden of Islands " ), the Jardín de Cactus y Suculentas ( "Garden of cacti and succulents ", with about 2,000 issued types of succulents ), the Jardín Macaronésico Ornamental ( " Makaronesischer Ornamentalgarten " ) and El Jardín Escondido ( " The Hidden Garden " greenhouse). Also worth mentioning are El Pinar ( " The pine grove " ) and Bosque de Laurísílva ( " laurel forest "). At the " fountains of the wise " (La Fuente de Los Sabios ) will be honored botanists who have researched and developed the flora of the Canary Islands.
The garden is open to visitors year round.