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Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos

Botanical gardens in Cienfuegos, Cuba

Field	Value
name	Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos
alt_name	Jardín Botánico Soledad
image	AVE PALMAS1.JPG
image_caption	Cuban Royal Palms across the entry road to the Gardens
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type	Botanical gardens
location	Cienfuegos Province, Cuba
nearest_city	Cienfuegos
coordinates
area	97 ha
created
founder	Edwin F. and Katherine W. Atkins

Cienfuegos Province Botanical Garden, officially, Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos, also known as Jardín Botánico Soledad, is located 14 km from Cienfuegos city centre.

Overview

Garden co-founder Katherine Wrisley Atkins

With 97 ha it is one of the oldest institution botanic gardens on the island. The garden was founded in 1901 by Edwin F. Atkins and his wife, Katherine Wrisley Atkins. They arrived in Cuba in 1899 in search of the island's most precious commodity: sugarcane.Jardín Botánico Soledad http://www.moon.com/destinations/cuba/cienfuegos-and-villa-clara-provinces/cienfuegos/cienfuegos-excursions/jardin-botanico-soledad . MOON Travel Guide

Atkins built the Soledad sugar mill, and, soon after, a research center dedicated to investigation and enhancement of sugar cane under the name Harvard Botanical Station for Tropical Research and Sugar Cane Investigation

Mr. and Mrs. Atkins were also fond of plant collecting and soon afterwards started a tropical and rare species garden in the backyard of their estate where plants from as far as India and China were grown in tropical Cuba.

Today the garden has a large collection of tropical exotic plants (2000+ species) clustered in 670 genera and 125 botanical families. Among the most complete collections are orchids (400+), palms (230+), ficuses (65+) and bamboos (29).

References

Scott, Rebecca J.. (2007). "A Cuban Connection: Edwin F. Atkins, Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and the Former Slaves of Soledad Plantation". Massachusetts Historical Review.
Burkhardt, Lotte. (2018-06-06). "Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen - Erweiterte Edition. Index of Eponymic Plant Names - Extended Edition. Index de Noms éponymiques des Plantes - Édition augmentée". Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin.
Fernandez-Prieto, L.. (2018). "''In: Pretel D., Camprubí L. (eds.)'' Technology and Globalisation". Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
(2000). "Some Reminiscences of the Soledad Botanical Garden, Cuba, 1940-1950". Harvard Papers in Botany.

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