BOTANIC GARDEN OF QUITO

HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF QUITO

•   WHEN DID IT CREATE?

It was authorized On October 4, 1989.

By May 1993 , it began to design the conceptual level with the help and collaboration of Judith Parker Evans, landscape architect, member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and linked to the Missouri Botanical Garden. The final level, delivered in August 1996.

In February 1995 , Mrs. Gisela Neustaetter, made ​​a major donation for construction of orchid, a key part of the Botanical Garden of Quito (JBQ). This glass palace is the main attraction of the garden, for surely home to one of the finest collections of orchids open to the public.

The February 25, 2005 , after intensive work, the Botanical Garden of Quito was opened, which aims to become the benchmark for conservation and education on Andean flora of Ecuador.

•   WHO CREATED THE BOTANICAL GARDEN?

On October 4, 1989, the Orchid Society of Quito, the Ecuadorian Museum of Natural Sciences and the Garden Club of Quito signed an agreement with the I. Municipality of Quito, which authorized the use of the former municipal nursery for creating a botanical garden of the city to promote direct or indirect actions aimed at knowledge, protection and conservation of Ecuador's Andean flora.

•        MISSION AND VISION

Mission

Running actions for the direct and indirect knowledge, protection and conservation of Ecuador's plant resources, especially in the Andean flora.

Vision

The Botanical Garden of Quito dynamically directs its efforts to become a leading, efficient and recognized organization in the management of the plant heritage of the Ecuadorian Andes.By 2012 it will become a center for research, conservation and exhibition of regional native flora, including species at risk of extinction as well as an educational center on these issues.

UBICATION

The Botanic Garden of Quito or Jardin Botanico de Quito is located on the south end of Parque La Carolina in the heart of downtown Quito, between Avenue “los Shyris” and Avenue “Amazonas”.  The view below is looking west toward Mount Pichincha.

       HOURS OF ATTENTION AND COST

      The opening hours are Monday to Friday from 8h00 to 17h00, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 9h00 to 17h00.While the botanic garden is not large it is very attractive and well done.  Entry fee is $ 3.50 USD for adults, $ 2 for children, $ 0.50 USD for children in public schools, free for the disabled.

             OFFERS

The Botanic Garden has an area of 18.200 square meters .It offers to visitors different areas where the flora is divided into diverse climatic zones that the Ecuadorian highlands have, in addition to permanent exhibitions of plants with specific characteristics, and warmer region plants which are found in greenhouses.

The Botanic Garden is home of more than 5,000 plants of about   500 species. The vast majority are native to our country.

ATRACTIONS

·      ECOSYSTEMS

Paramo 

Plants have developed amazing adaptations against the cold and wind. Know that the wilderness is our largest water reservoir.

Wetlands of Sierra

Wetland vegetation Sierra lakes and rivers are essential: purifies and oxygenates the water and food and is home to fish, frogs, birds and other animals. In the Botanical Garden we have our own Andean lagoon.

Cloudy Forest

Rain forest you surprised bearded giants, twisted and covered branches of hundreds of plants that grow attached to them; these forests are home to the greatest biodiversity in the world.

·      Gardens

Thematic gardens

Demonstration garden

An ideal Demonstration Garden to learn about growing vegetables, the care of plants and production of organic fertilizer. It is dedicated especially for children / as

Hull

Quinine is the Ecuadorian scale plant that has saved more lives in the world.

Ornamental gardens

Rose Garden Eternal Spring Rosales our country can beautify the world with flowers for export.Do not miss this colorful garden!

Zen Garden GARDEN-ZEN Originally from Japan. The main elements that form are sand, stones, with some green touches and a pond. Areas covered sand or small stones represents the sea. These gardens are intended to promote serenity and invite meditation.

·      REPRESENTATIVE PLANTS

     Lupinus pubescens

 HISTORIC INFORMATION: Native herbaceous species known as pussy pussy ashpa or allpa, was named for science in 1846 as Lupinus pubescens by the English botanist George Bentham. It was first collected by the German botanist Karl Theodor Hartweg in rural Rumipamba is now a district of Quito.

Cactus

HISTORIC INFORMATION: Are a family of succulent plants and a large majority, thorny,   known collectively as cactuses or cactus. This family is originally from America.

Orquideas

HISTORIC INFORMATION: They are a family of monocotyledonous plants which are distinguished by the complexity of their flowers and their ecological interactions with pollinators and fungi with mycorrhizal.