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The Missouri Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4344 Shaw Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri. It is also known informally as Shaw's Garden for founder and philanthropist Henry Shaw . Its herbarium , with more than 6.6 million specimens, [ 3 ] is the second largest in North America, behind that of the New York Botanical Garden .
The Climatron is a greenhouse enclosed in a geodesic dome that is part of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis. Initiated by then Garden director Frits W. Went, the dome is the world's first completely air-conditioned greenhouse and the first geodesic dome to be enclosed in rigid Plexiglass (Perspex) panels.
Missouri Botanical Garden staffers will plant 3.5 acres in total for the renovation, including 30,500 individual plants representing 332 individual species. Almost half of the species are native ...
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This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Missouri is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Missouri [1] [2] [3] Name Image
Shaw’s holdings came to encompass the modern-day Botanical Garden and most of the land between modern-day Tower Grove Park and Vandeventer Avenue. [2] Inspired by the gardens of Chatsworth House in England, Shaw created the Missouri Botanical Garden, which opened in 1859, and bequeathed the land for Tower Grove Park to the City of St. Louis ...
Tropicos is an online botanical database containing taxonomic information on plants, mainly from the Neotropical realm (Central, and South America). It is maintained by the Missouri Botanical Garden and was established in 1982. The database contains images and taxonomical and bibliographical data on more than 4.2 million herbarium specimens. In ...