• COUNTRY Egypt
      • NAME “Orman Botanic Garden”
      • ADDRESS Orman Botanic Garden, Giza-Orman, Cairo (Egypt)
      • WEBSITE https://ormanmap.cultnat.org/InfoGarden.aspx?
      • EMAIL
      • PHONE +202 3534 3222  FAX +202 3539 2929
      • STATUS State (Ministry of Agriculture)
      • INSTITUTION TYPE Botanic Garden depending on the Horticulture Research Institute
      • DIRECTOR Dr.Sayed Hussein Ahmed
      • FACILITIES
        • 27 orchards
        • 3 special gardens: one of Strelitzia, another of roses, and a rock garden with species adapted
        • Arboretum in the garden
        • Nurseries
        • General Herbarium with 5.879 samples (70% are native plants) and a Horticultural Herbarium with vegetable species (according to the Horticulture Research Institute, Egypt)
        • Seed bank and list of seeds
      • AREA 28 feddans (approximately 11.76ha)
      • SEPCIAL COLLECTIONS
         • Conifers, palms, cacti, succulents, roses, bamboo, Ficus, aquatic plants, Strelitzia
      • PROGRAMMES
        • No research programs• No specific educational programs• Training programs (Horticultural Programs)
      • OTHER INFORMATION In the year 1875, Khedive Isma’il Pasha decided to create an Egyptian forest similar to ‘Bois de Boulogne’ park in Pari, so he resorted two French experts Gustave Delchevalerie and Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps.The new garden was called El-Orman, a Turkish word which means “the forest”. In 1910 it became a public botanical garden and put in 1917 under the Ministry of Agriculture.
      • SOURCES CONSULTED

    Website:
    https://ormanmap.cultnat.org/InfoGarden.aspx?
    www.bgci.org/garden
    www.cbd.int
    www.hortinst.com

    Documentos:
    “Egypt. First National report to the Convention on Biological Diversity”. December, 1997. Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs. Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. National Biodiversity Unit “Egypt magazine”, SIS publications. Egypt State Information Service “Botanic gardens recorded in Egypt” (CBD)

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