Caen Botanical Garden, Caen
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About Caen Botanical Garden
The Caen Botanical Garden (Jardin des Plantes) is one of France's oldest botanical gardens, founded in 1736 on former Caen stone quarries as a teaching garden for medical and pharmacy students. 5 hectares, this remarkable green oasis in the heart of Caen now houses over 8,000 plant species, including regional flora collections, medicinal plants, rock gardens, and exotic greenhouses open daily from 1pm to 5pm. The garden holds the prestigious 'Jardin Remarquable' label and has been certified by the Association of French Botanical Gardens since 1997.
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In one of the garden's small greenhouses, the famous Norman botanist Noel Bernard made a groundbreaking discovery in the early 1900s - he was the first to identify the symbiotic relationship between orchid seeds and fungi, a finding that revolutionized orchid cultivation worldwide. Bernard's research explained why orchid seeds, which contain almost no nutritional reserves, need fungal partners to germinate successfully.
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