Arboretum
Pinus bungeana
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The Lyon Botanical Garden’s arboretum, which is linked up to the open-air collections, gathers about 600 trees in 650 species among which some are particularly remarkable. It is the case of Pinus bungeana, rare and spectacular (this one probably comes from the first seeds lot sent from China to the West via the Kew Botanical Garden in 1860), Cupressus dupreziana (only 1 000 specimens in the world) or Metasequoia glyptostroboides discovered in China in 1941!
Others conifers deserve being looked at: Araucaria araucana (monkey’s despair), Taxodium distichum, very beautiful cedars, larches and different pines.
Quercus petraea (Matt.)
Liebl.
The deciduous leafed trees collection is not less interesting: beautiful Gingko biloba, tulip trees, American copalm, the numerous oak and maple species and magnolias with splendid spring flowering.
Be careful to not confuse them with lasting leafed magnolias (Magnolia grandifolia) that form a beautiful alley between the Dutch greenhouse and the aquatic greenhouse.
In order to have a good visit, every Botanical garden’s tree is labelled contrary to the other Tete d’Or Park trees.