Orto Botanico "Pania di Corfino"

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Giardino Botanico "Maria Ansaldi" Pania di Corfino
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View of the main path of the Botanical Garden
Orto Botanico "Pania di Corfino"
TypeBotanical Garden
LocationIsera, Villa Collemandina
Coordinates 44°12′09″N10°22′29″E / 44.202478°N 10.374800°E / 44.202478; 10.374800
Elevation1370
Opened1984
Owned byUnione Comuni Garfagnana
Plants400
Website http://www.ortobotanicoitalia.it/toscana/paniadicorfino/

The Giardino Botanico "Maria Ansaldi" Pania di Corfino (about 7500m2) is a botanical garden located an altitude of 1370 m in the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park, near the visitor center of Orecchiella Natural Park in Isera, Corfino, Villa Collemandina, Province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

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The garden was established in 1984 to collect and preserve indigenous flora of the Apennine Mountains, Garfagnana valley and Apuan Alps . As such it reproduces environments typical of the region, including heath, hills, moor, pasture, and scree; it also contains an arboretum.

Specimens

Today the garden contains about 400 varieties of plants as well as botanical specimens and fossils.

Species of interest include:

Trees and woody plants include:

See also

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