Jardin botanique de la Charme

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The Jardin botanique de la Charme is the botanical garden of Clermont-Ferrand, in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in France.

History: The botanical garden of Clermont-Ferrand has had various locations throughout its history. The city's first botanical garden was created by Abbé Antoine Delarbre and inaugurated on August 9, 1781. It has been located throughout the 19th century in the current Lecoq Garden, which is today a park in the center of the city. Since 1974, it has been located on the outskirts of the city, rue de la Charme. In the 19th century the chair of natural history of the faculty of Clermont depended on the municipal botanical garden.

Garden managers 1745-? : Jean Bompart ?-1807 ? : Abbé Antoine Delarbre (1724-1807) 1807?-1826: Abbé Paul-François Lacoste (1751-1826) 1826-1871 : Henri Lecoq 1871-1883 : Martial Lamotte (1820-1883), former student and friend of the previous 1884-1911 : Paul Girod ; Chief gardener : Désiré Laye

Content: On an area of over 18,000 m2, the botanical garden contains a systematic collection where plants are arranged by family and labelled according to the Latin binomial denomination. It also includes: