Brockengarten (Germany)
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q923683
Library of congress:
sh2009008209
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Ebel, F. Der Versuchs- und Schaugarten auf dem Brocken, 1991(Information über den Brockengarten)
- WWW.brocken.biz, 15 Sept. 2009(the Brockengarten was founded in 1890 on a 1142m high plateau, it has 1600 kinds of mountain plants)
- Wikipedia, Sep. 17, 2009(Brockengarten is an alpine botanical garden on the Brocken summit (altitude 1142 meters) in the Harz National Park near Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; the garden was first established in 1890 by Albert Peter, Director of the Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen, to collect high-altitude plants from around the world)
Wikipedia description:
The Brocken Garden (German: Brockengarten) is an alpine botanical garden on the summit of the Brocken (1,142 m above sea level), the highest peak in the Harz mountains of Germany. It lies within the Harz National Park near Wernigerode in the state of Saxony-Anhalt and has a stock of around 1,600 types of plant. These include species that only grow in the Brocken region, like the Brocken anemone or alpine pasqueflower and the Brocken hawkweed, but its main focus is on alpine plants like the white dryad and the Swiss willow. It is open daily without charge.
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