Giardino Botanico "Maria Ansaldi" Pania di Corfino | |
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![]() View of the main path of the Botanical Garden | |
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Type | Botanical Garden |
Location | Isera, Villa Collemandina |
Coordinates | 44°12′09″N10°22′29″E / 44.202478°N 10.374800°E |
Elevation | 1370 |
Opened | 1984 |
Owned by | Unione Comuni Garfagnana |
Plants | 400 |
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.
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.
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: