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The Arboretum du Grenouillet is an arboretum located within the Parc National des Cévennes, in Gorniès, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France. It is open daily without charge.

Arboretum botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study

An arboretum in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees. More commonly a modern arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants and is intended at least in part for scientific study.

Gorniès Commune in Occitanie, France

Gorniès is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France.

Hérault Department of France

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The arboretum was created in 1905 by Charles Flahault (1852–1935), and contains species including Abies numidica , Acer campestris , Alnus glutinosa , Fraxinus ornus , Ginkgo biloba , Larix spp., Maclura pomifera , Populus tremulus , Sequoiadendron , Taxus baccata , and Toxylon pomiferum .

Charles Henri Marie Flahault was a French botanist, among the early pioneers of phytogeography, phytosociology, and forest ecology. The word relevé for a plant community sample is his invention.

In biology, a species ( ) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. While these definitions may seem adequate, when looked at more closely they represent problematic species concepts. For example, the boundaries between closely related species become unclear with hybridisation, in a species complex of hundreds of similar microspecies, and in a ring species. Also, among organisms that reproduce only asexually, the concept of a reproductive species breaks down, and each clone is potentially a microspecies.

<i>Abies numidica</i> species of plant

Abies numidica is a species of fir found only in Algeria, where it is endemic on Djebel Babor, the second-highest mountain in the Algerian Tell Atlas.

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