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Outdoor Sections | Greenhouses PlantsThe Botanic Garden holds 22.052 living plants which all are registered in the electronic database, and which represent 359 families, 2.984 genera og 13.210 species. In addition, a large number of subspecific taxa and experimental plants are not registered in the database. The genebank holds seeds of about 800 wild Danish species, some 1000 species from the garden collections, and about 150 accessions of seeds classified as particularly relevant for research projects. More than 50 species are maintained through tissue culture in the laboratory, and among these are several species which are critically endangered in the wild, e.g. on the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific and the Mascarenes in the Indian Ocean.The Botanic Garden aims at maintaining plant collections that are representative in terms of taxonomic relationships, ecological adaptations, geographical origin and occurrence, and usefulness to mankind. This means that that greenhoses with different climatic regimes have to be maintained, and similarly that outdoor sections with different growing conditions with respect to light, moisture, soil conditions etc. also have to be maintained. Plants which primarily are cultivated for information purposes are placed and grouped accordingly, as for example in taxonomic groups (e.g. the orchid collection, the Sorbus collection), in biological groups (e.g. the annual section, the carnivorous plants), in ecological groupings (e.g. the swamp meadow, the steppe sections), in geographical groups (e.g. the Danish plant section, the Madagascar collection) or in climatic groupings (e.g. the Palmhouse, the succulent house).
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