page_title: Orto botanico di Padova
section_title: Collections
hierarchical_section_title: Orto botanico di Padova / Collections
caption_attribution_description: Vèneto: Łe vasche de łe piante aquatiche e, in fondo, ła sèra dove ghè sistemà ła palma de Goethe. English: Tanks of aquatic plants and the "Goethe palm" greenhouse.
context_page_description: The Orto Botanico di Padova is a botanical garden in Padua, in the northeastern part of Italy. Founded in 1545 by the Venetian Republic, it is the world's oldest academic botanical garden that is still in its original location. The garden, affiliated with the University of Padua, currently covers roughly 22,000 square meters, and is known for its special collections and historical design.
context_section_description: Owing to a shortage of hothouses, the plants are mainly located outdoors. Six thousand types of plants are currently being cultivated and arranged according to taxonomic, utilitarian, ecological-environmental and historical standards. The systematic collection is concentrated in the four biggest central flowerbeds. Among the utilitarian collections, the medicinal plants are the most important. These are classified according to the Engler system, based on evolutionary relationships among the families. Each plant is labelled with its scientific name and its principal therapeutical properties. A poisonous plants collection has recently been set up with didactic aims: many of these poisonous plants are found also in the medicinal plants sector because in suitable quantities they can be used to treat illness and diseases.
  Collections of the garden include:
  Insectivorous plants: found in nitrogen-poor soils, these plants must use the proteins of some small insects captured with their leaves to avoid deficiencies.
  Medicinal and Poisonous plants: plants representing the original purpose of the Botanical Garden.
  Plants From the Euganean Hills and Triveneto Region: a collection of representative plants from the Euganean Hills and the area surrounding the Botanical Garden.
  A section devoted to the collection, preservation and study of plants in danger of extinction.
  Orchids
  Aquatic plants
  Alpine plants
  Mediterranean plants
caption: Tanks of aquatic plants and the "Goethe palm" greenhouse.
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