Jardin botanique de l'Université de Fribourg

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Switzerland - Fribourg

Institution Code: FRIBG

BGCI Member: Yes

Main Address:
Jardin botanique de l'Université de Fribourg
chemin du Musee 10
Fribourg
1700 Switzerland

Telephone: 0041263008886
Fax: no
URL: http://www3.unifr.ch/jardin-botanique/fr/
Primary Email: gregor.kozlowski@unifr.ch

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Prof. Gregor Kozlowski
    Curator's Name: Prof. Gregor Kozlowski
    Plant Records Officer's Name: Alain Müller
  • Total Staff:
    Horticultural Staff Number: 8
    Educational Staff Number: 2
    Research Staff Number: 3
    Administration Staff Number: 2

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: No
    Status: State: Yes
    Status: Educational: Yes
    Status: Municipal: No
    Status: Satellite: No
    Status: Trust: No
  • Date founded: 1937
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: No
  • Landscaped Area: Yes
    Landscaped Area: Size: 1 Hectares
  • Total Area: 1 Hectares
    Latitude: 46.8025
    Longitude: 7.1512
    Annual Rainfall: 950 mm
    Altitude: 635.00 Metres
    Total area of glasshouses: 460 Metres
  • Locality: Information
  • Locality: Garden Name: Jardin botanique de l'Université de Fribourg
  • Local Address: Chemin du Musée 10
  • Locality: City: Fribourg
  • Locality: State: Fribourg

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: No
    Arboretum: Yes
    Arboretum Size: 1
  • Seed Bank: Yes
    Published Plant Catalogue: Yes
    Computer Plant Record System: Yes
  • Open to public: Yes
    Friends society: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Shop: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: No
    Disabled access: Yes
  • Number of Visitors: 189988

Plant Collections

  • Accession Number: 5400
    Cultivation Taxa Num: 4800
  • Special Collections:Alpine flowers, medicinal plants. Systematic sector, bulbs, water plants, useful plants. Local fruit varieties, protected Swiss plants.
  • Invasive Species Monitoring: Yes
    Invasive Species Policy: Yes
    ABS Policy: Yes
    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: Yes
    Conservation - Genetics: Yes
    Data Management Systems and Information Technology: No
    Ecology: No
    Ecosystem Conservation: Yes
    Education: Yes
    Ethnobotany: No
    Exploration: Yes
    Floristics: No
    Horticulture: No
    Invasive Species Biology and Control: No
    Molecular Genetics: No
    Pollination Biology: No
    Restoration Ecology: No
    Seed/Spore Biology: No
    Systematics and Taxonomy: Yes
    Sustainability: No
    Pharmacology: No
    Agriculture: No
    Land Restoration: No
    Urban Environments: No

Education Programmes

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