page_title: Gothenburg Botanical Garden
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Gothenburg Botanical Garden / Description
context_page_description: The Gothenburg Botanical Garden is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is one of the larger botanical gardens in Europe.
context_section_description: The total area is 175 hectares (ca 430 acres), of which most constitutes the nature reserve, Änggårdsbergen, including an arboretum.
  The garden proper is about 40 hectares and there are 16,000 different species. The Rock Garden has received two stars in the Michelin Green Guide. Other sights worth seeing are The Rhododendron Valley, the Japanese Glade and the greenhouses with about 4,000 various plants, including some 1,500 orchids, a remarkable tufa apartment and the rare Easter Island Tree, Sophora toromiro.
  The park is unique in Sweden since it is independent of the city university. Currently it is one of the larger botanical gardens in Europe, with its 175 hectares, which include a wild nature reserve in the Änggårdsbergen hills. This reserve is also the site of the Garden’s arboretum with copses of trees from many parts of the world, in scientifically ordered collections. The cultivated part of the Garden is about 40 hectares in area, of which about half consists of beds of plants. There are also extensive lawns and shrubberies.   
  The symbol of the garden is a white wood anemone. These flowers carpet the valleys of the Woodlands and the Nature Reserve in the spring.
caption: Map of Gothenburg Botanical Garden.
  1. Entrance area, 2. The shop, 3. Gramina et Flores, 4. Greenhouses, 5. Bulbs, 6. Kitchen Garden, 7. Herb Garden, 8. Bamboo Thicket, 9. Perennials, 10. Restaurant and café, 11. Woodlands, 12. Rhododendrons, 13. Rock garden, 14. Japanese Glade.