 McBean Wildfowl Pond and Primitive Plant Garden at SF Botanical Garden
 Pond at Dwarf Conifer collection of SF Botanical Garden The San Francisco Botanical Garden (formerly Strybing Arboretum) is a large botanical garden in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Its 55 acres (22.3 ha) include over 7,500 varieties of plants from around the world, making it one of the largest on the West Coast of the United States. Image File history File linksMetadata DSCN2039_resized. ...
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Photo of waterlily pond in Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, taken July 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Photo of waterlily pond in Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, taken July 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Photo of redwood trail in Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, taken July 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Photo of redwood trail in Strybing Arboretum, San Francisco, taken July 2004 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to...
Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City; The City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area - City 47 sq mi (122 km²) - Land 46. ...
An aerial view of the Golden Gate Park The Golden Gate Park is the largest urban park in San Francisco, California, USA. At 1017 acres (4. ...
In botanical nomenclature, variety is a rank below that of species: As such, it gets a ternary name (a name in three parts). ...
Originally laid out in the 1890s by park supervisor John McLaren, funding was insufficient to begin construction until Helene Strybing willed funds in 1926. Planting was begun in 1937 with WPA funds supplemented by local donations, and the arboretum officially opened in May of 1940. As a part of Golden Gate Park, it is officially managed by the city of San Francisco, but the SF Botanical Garden Society plays an important role in maintaining the collection. Formed in 1955, the SF Botanical Garden Society (formerly the Strybing Arboretum Society) operates the Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, a bookstore, monthly plant sales and offers a wide range of community education programs for children and adults. The Society also raises money for new projects and Garden renovations. Using green building practices, a new Center for Sustainable Gardening is planned to replace the existing nursery. Other planned renovations include a Southeast Asian Cloud Forest and newly paved pathways. The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
John McLaren (17 August 1831 - 6 April 1910), Lord McLaren, was a Scottish Liberal politician and judge. ...
Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ...
Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
WPA is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings: Washington Project for the Arts, an arts organization based in Washington, D.C. Walter Payton Award, in U.S. Division I-AA football War Powers Act, a U.S. federal law, also known as the Trading with the Enemy Act and...
Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ...
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The Garden continues to actively acquire plants; in 2004 it received 1143 accessions totalling over 5,600 individual plants. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
It will be the site of the finish line on the popular reality show The Amazing Race: All-Stars. The Amazing Race 11 (titled The Amazing Race: All-Stars) is the eleventh installment of the popular four time Emmy Award winner reality television show, The Amazing Race. ...
The gardens are organized into several specialized collections:
- Mediterranean
- California native plants
- John Muir Nature Trail
- Redwood Trail
- Chile
- Cape Province (South Africa)
- Southwestern Australia
- Mediterranean Basin Region
- Mild-temperate climate
- Eastern Australia
- New Zealand
- Moon-viewing Garden - a Japanese design
- Takamine Garden - Asian plants
- Temperate Asian Garden
- Montane tropic
- Specialty collections
- Primitive plants garden - cycads, etc
- Succulent garden
- Dwarf Conifer garden
- Home Demonstration Gardens
- Garden of Fragrance
- Zellerbach Garden of Perennials
- Dry Mexico
- Magnolias & Camellias
The mild Mediterranean climate is ideal for plants from surprisingly many parts of the world; the arboretum does not include greenhouses for species requiring other climate types. Blazing Star (Mentzelia lindleyi) California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the advent of Europeans. ...
Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ...
Tree ferns in cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo At the edge of the Panamanian side of the Parque Internacional la Amistad Temperate cloud forest on La Palma, Canary Islands The cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica Cloud forest on Mount Lushan in southeastern China One of the hanging bridges...
Location of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia. ...
Families Cycadaceae cycas family Stangeriaceae stangeria family Zamiaceae zamia family Leaves and male cone of Cycas revoluta Cycads are an ancient group of seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk. ...
Succulent plants, or succulents, are plants that store water in their enlarged fleshy leaves, stems, or roots. ...
Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales Pinaceae - Pine family Araucariaceae - Araucaria family Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family Cupressaceae - Cypress family Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ...
A greenhouse in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...
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Blazing Star (Mentzelia lindleyi) California native plants are plants that existed in California prior to the advent of Europeans. ...
This list of botanical gardens in the United States is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States of America. ...
The North American Plant Collections Consortium (NAPCC) is a group of North American botanical gardens and arboreta that aims to improve the continents living plant collections, and enhance the availability of plant germplasm. ...
49-Mile Scenic Drive sign The 49-Mile Scenic Drive (also known as 49-Mile Drive) in and around San Francisco highlights many of The Citys major attractions and historic structures. ...
External links - Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 37.7675° -122.4699°
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