Orto Botanico del Salento

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Italy - Puglia - Lecce

Institution Code:

BGCI Member: Yes

Main Address:
Orto Botanico del Salento
Località Masseria S. Angelo, s.n.c.
Lecce
Puglia 73100 Italy

Telephone: +390832298895
Fax:
URL: www.fondazioneortobotanico.lecce.it
Primary Email: info@fondazioneortobotanico.lecce.it

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Luigi De Bellis
    Curator's Name: Fabio Ippolito
    Plant Records Officer's Name:
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 1
    Educational Staff Number:
    Research Staff Number: 2
    Administration Staff Number: 1

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: No
    Status: State: No
    Status: Educational: No
    Status: Municipal: No
    Status: Satellite: No
    Status: Trust: No
  • Date founded: 2006
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: Yes
  • Latitude: 40.3598926
    Longitude: 18.2209245
    Annual Rainfall: 650 mm
    Altitude: 38.00 Metres
  • Locality: Information
  • Locality: Garden Name: Orto Botanico del Salento
  • Local Address: via Lorenzo Palumbo (uscita 7/B tangenziale Lecce)
  • Locality: City: Lecce
  • Locality: State: Puglia

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: No
    Arboretum: No
  • Micropropagation/ Tissue Culture Facilities: No
    Seed Bank: No
    Published Plant Catalogue: No
    Computer Plant Record System: Yes
  • Open to public: Yes
    Friends society: No
    Retail Outlet: Shop: No
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: No
    Disabled access: Yes
  • Number of Visitors: 500
    Number of Volunteers: 3

Plant Collections

  • Invasive Species Monitoring: No
    Invasive Species Policy: Yes
    ABS Policy: No
    Plant Collection Policy: Yes

Conservation Programmes

  • Conservation Programme: Yes
    Medicinal Plant Programme: No
    Ex Situ Conservation Programme: Yes
    Reintroduction Programme: Yes

Research Programmes

  • Biotechnology: No
    Plant Breeding: No
    Conservation - Biology: No
    Conservation - Genetics: No
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: No
    Ecology: No
    Ecosystem Conservation: Yes
    Education: Yes
    Ethnobotany: No
    Exploration: No
    Floristics: Yes
    Horticulture: No
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: Yes
    Molecular Genetics: No
    Pollination Biology: No
    Restoration Ecology: Yes
    Seed/Spore Biology: No
    Systematics and Taxonomy: Yes
    Sustainability: Yes
    Pharmacology: No
    Agriculture: Yes
    Land Restoration: Yes
    Urban Environments: Yes

Education Programmes

  • Visitor/Education Centre: No
    Education Signs in Garden: Yes
    Public Lectures/Talks: No
    Education Booklets/Leaflets: No
    Guided Tours: Yes
    Permanent Public Displays: Yes
    Special Exhibitions: No
    Courses for School Children: No
    Courses for University/College Students: No
    Courses for General Public: Yes
    Education Programme: Yes