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THE MONUMENTAL ARBORETUM. BOTANICAL MONOGRAPHS

Author: Manuel Costa, José Plumed

Series: Botanical monographs

Publisher: Universitat de València

Language: available in English, Spanish and Valencià

ISBN: 978-84-9133-011-0

First Printing: 2016

Pages: 224

More information: at the Botanic Garden ticket office

Online sale: Publicacions de la Universitat de València

The Monumental Arboretum includes the 65 most noteworthy specimens of tree species in our garden, from all geographical zones of the Earth. Genres such as Araucana, Cupressus, Podocarpus, Cephalotaxusm, species · of pine trees and Cycas, monocotyledons such as Nolina, Beaucarnea, and the large sample of Yucca filifera, probably the oldest garden plant, and the giant bamboo Dendrocalamus giganteus. Some of these examples are, already, senescent and most likely die in a not very long term. Each plant that disappears is an irreparable loss, but we have to accept that this is the cycle of life. Our mission is not to make them live forever, but replace absences with new specimens that allow that our Grove continues to be the main attraction of this botanical garden.