The Cévennes Bamboo plantation. Générargues
The Cévennes Bamboo plantation (or Anduze Bamboo plantation) is a landscaped park focusing on temperate and tropical bamboo collections. More than 240 varieties of bamboos, Japanese maples, camellias, ginkgos or hundred-year-old sequoias... all continents are represented, revealing exceptional specimens.
The Cévennes Bamboo plantation was born from the will of one man: Eugène Mazel. Passionate about horticulture and natural sciences, he started his first plantations on the current site of the Cévennes Bamboo plantation in 1856, acclimatising exotic species from China, Japan, North America and the Himalayas.
A collection of herbaria has been built up since 1968, although modest at the moment, about 200 specimens are already available online. In the near future, the Bamboo plantation should have a reference herbarium on the world’s bamboos. The objectives are to reach about 5,000 specimens and to develop a scientific pole within the establishment.
The Cévennes Bamboo plantation
Contacts:
Muriel NEGRE : m.negre@bambouseraie.fr
Antoine LYONNET : a.lyonnet@bambouseraie.fr
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