Guyana Botanical Garden

About

The Guyana Botanical Garden, located in Guiana, on the axis of Cayenne and Kourou in the municipality of Macouria, is a three-hectare botanical garden. Its collections include 4,500 taxa including more than 750 orchid species.

Description and history: The garden was created in October 2010. It enjoys a biotope composed of savannah, high forest and swamp forest.

Early life: Divided through an outdoor route of more than one kilometre of linear trail, most plant collections are accessible to visitors. The few remarkable collections are:

Orchidaceae Bromeliaceae Araceae Other collections of plants mainly from Guyana are highlighted and widely represented in the garden: The Arecaceae, Costaces, Fabaceae, ferns, Heliconiaceae, Marantaceae, Strelitziaceae, Zingiberaceae...

Research and conservation: Ex situ storage: The ex situ conservation action (outside the natural environment) by cultivation at the Botanical Garden allows the complete study of specimens under conditions, in Guyana (Amazon equatorial medium), adequate. These conditions make it easier to get away...