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The Cacti Greenhouse
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by Peter Lapshin
of State Nikita Botanical Gardens (Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine)
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The Cacti Greenhouse of The State Nikita Botanical Gardens (Nikita place, near Yalta town, Crimea, Ukraine) invites to visit permanent exposition of cacti and others succulents in open and closed ground. The cacti collection contains about 600 species, varieties and forms. The succulent collection is presented with 400 taxa. Various sorts of cacti and other succulents growing in open ground are represented. The director of Cacti Greenhouse is Olga Ivanovna Goncharova, curator of collection is Vera Mikhaylovna Novikova.
The excursion programm is available during a year.
The Nikitskiy Botanical Gardens - one of the oldest botanical gardens of the world, was founded in 1812. Its total area is 1100 hectares. There are 12 scientific departments in the structure of the Botanical garden. This garden has one of the largest in Europe herbarium, the oldest library in Crimea and a scientific museum. The collections of the Nikita Botanical Gardens include more than 50 thousand species, forms, sorts and hybrids of plants from many countries of the world. In 2000 Nikitsky Botanical Garden has received the status of a National Centre of Science of Ukraine.
There is following information on the site:
- Succulent collection - List of photed succulent plants;
- Photo Album Photos of Cacti Greenhouse. About 300 photos by 2001-2003. Autor of the all photos - Peter Lapshin. Section of photogallery: 1. "Cacti Yard" - cacti and other succulents outdoors; 2. Reviev photos in exposure of indoors; 3. Leafy succulents; 4. Abnormal cacti; 5. Park of Botanical Garden.
- Article about cacti collection;
- How to get to Cacti Greenhouse;
- Links to internet sites about Nikitsky Botanical Garden.
- Photoalbum "The South Coast of Crimea" - Crimean nature. About 200 photos from 1995-2003. Photographer - Peter Lapshin.
Succulent collection by Peter Lapshin - photoalbum (350 illustrations of different leaf succulents from own collection in Moscow), catalog, the thematic articles.
