Faculté de SantéDépartement pharmacie
16 bd Daviers - 49045 Angers
Seedbank of the botanic garden at Angers Pharmacy Faculty
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Faculté de Santé Département pharmacie 16 bd Daviers - 49045 Angers |
Seedbank of the botanic garden at Angers Pharmacy Faculty |
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The current botanical garden
of the pharmacy department of Angers
was created before 1890 near the
School of Medicine and Pharmacy,
and
at that time, it received a large number of plants from the school
of botany.
It is organized in 32 planting beds, where the plants are classified by families and labeled.
It also includes an arboretum and a greenhouse.
It is open Monday to Friday from 8h to 12h and from 14h to 16h.
It is labeled 'Jardin
botanique de France' and contains today more than 2000 species.
Like all botanical gardens, it fulfills missions of
-
study and conservation
of plants,
- teaching tools for systematic botany and phytotherapy,
- pleasure garden.
The botanic garden has a seedbank that can be visited on request.
This seedbank is maintained with a huge labour of love.
It
is absolutely essential
to renew each year the seedlings of annuals and some others,
and thus fulfill the mission of conservation and maintenance of the
Faculty of Pharmacy botanical garden.
Each year, thousands of different seeds are harvested in the garden, the arboretum and the
greenhouse.
After drying, they are sieved, sorted and classified.
A small amount is stored in small paper bags for next year's seedlings, and the rest in glass
jars.
Students and visitors can discover the diversity of all these seeds, some of which are shown
on these pages.
In addition to this educational aspect, the seedbank is also a resource for botanic gardens
around the world.
Regularly, seeds are listed in a catalogue (Index seminum), and sent to more than 200 other
botanical gardens,
to organize the numerous seed exchanges and maintain and complete the plant collections.
Botanists of the garden are consulted by the poison control center to identify seeds in case of intoxication.
