page_title: Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
hierarchical_section_title: Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
context_page_description: The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna is a botanical garden in Vienna, Austria. It covers 8 hectares and is immediately adjacent to the Belvedere gardens. It is a part of the University of Vienna.
  The gardens date back to 1754 when Empress Maria Theresa founded the Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis with renowned botanist Nikolaus von Jacquin as one of its first directors. His son, Joseph von Jacquin, succeeded him as director, as did a number of other leading botanists in turn, including Stefan Endlicher, Eduard Fenzl, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Richard von Wettstein, Fritz Knoll, Karl von Frisch, and Lothar Geitler. The Institute of Botany building was opened in 1905. However, at the end of the Second World War, the institute, all the greenhouses, and the entire garden area were bombed and severely damaged, and thus required major repair work.
  The gardens currently contain more than 11,500 species of plants, including well-documented tropical plants, particularly of such families as Annonaceae, Rubiaceae, Gesneriaceae, Bromeliaceae or Orchidaceae.
context_section_description: The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna is a botanical garden in Vienna, Austria. It covers 8 hectares and is immediately adjacent to the Belvedere gardens. It is a part of the University of Vienna.
  The gardens date back to 1754 when Empress Maria Theresa founded the Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis with renowned botanist Nikolaus von Jacquin as one of its first directors. His son, Joseph von Jacquin, succeeded him as director, as did a number of other leading botanists in turn, including Stefan Endlicher, Eduard Fenzl, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Richard von Wettstein, Fritz Knoll, Karl von Frisch, and Lothar Geitler. The Institute of Botany building was opened in 1905. However, at the end of the Second World War, the institute, all the greenhouses, and the entire garden area were bombed and severely damaged, and thus required major repair work.
  The gardens currently contain more than 11,500 species of plants, including well-documented tropical plants, particularly of such families as Annonaceae, Rubiaceae, Gesneriaceae, Bromeliaceae or Orchidaceae. Its greenhouses (ca. 1,500m²) were originally built between 1890 and 1893, but were damaged during the Second World War; they were renovated or rebuilt between 1970 and 1995. Only the tropical greenhouse in the centre of the complex is open for the public.
  The garden collections include:
  Abies pinsapo
  Aesculus pavia
  Asimina triloba
  Cephalotaxus harringtonia
  Diospyros lotus
  Elaeagnus angustifolia
  Ephedra
  Ficus carica
  Ginkgo biloba
  Gunnera chilensis
  +Laburnocytisus adamii
  Liriodendron tulipifera
  Magnolia
  Metasequoia glyptostroboides
   
  Nothofagus antarctica
  Ostrya carpinifolia
  Paeonia
  Parrotia persica
  Paulownia tomentosa
  Phyllostachys viridiglaucescens
  Pinus aristata
  Platanus orientalis
  Poncirus trifoliata
  Prunus tenella
  Rhododendron
  Salvia
  Sequoiadendron giganteum
  Syringa
  Viburnum
  Vitis riparia
caption: The Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna
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