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The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. It is on the left bank of the river Seine and covers 28 hectares (280,000 m²).

There is a school there that trains people to be botanists respecting biodiversity. There is a zoo in the Jardin that was started during the French Revolution from the animals at Versailles. The garden was started in 1626. It was used in 1640 to grow medicinal herbs for the king. Among directors, Comte de Buffon expanded it greatly. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, Chair of Botany, changed its name from Jardin du Roi to Jardin des Plantes during the French Revolution. It helped not to have the name linked to the king.

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Jardin des plantes de Paris

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    Plan of the Jardin des Plantes from 1820

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    Map of the Jardin des Plantes

  • Poncirus trifoliata 1 JdP

    A fruiting tree of oranges

Images for kids

  • Jardin du roi 1636

    The garden in 1636

  • Buffon statue dsc00979

    Statue of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in the formal garden

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    The Sophora Jussieu, planted by Buffon in the garden in 1747

  • Le Jardin des Plantes 1 - Paul Legrand

    The Jardin des Plantes and Menagerie in 1842

  • Maison Singes MJP

    Crowd outside the Palace of the Apes (c. 1900)

  • Séeberger - Jardin des Plantes de Paris 38

    Rachel the elephant (c. 1905)

  • Great gallery of evolution, Paris 1 July 2015

    Courtyard of the Grand Gallery of Evolution

  • Grande galerie evolution - musee histoire naturelle

    Parade of species in the Grand Gallery of Evolution

  • Raphus cucullatus 01 by Line1

    Reconstitution of a Dodo bird in section on endangered and disappeared species

  • La galerie de géologie du jardin des plantes à Paris

    Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology

  • Galerie de Botanique rue Buffon à Paris le 22 février 2018 - 1

    Gallery of Botany

  • MNHN-bota-7

    Slice of a giant Sequoia tree, 2200 years old, which fell naturally in 1917

  • Nepenthes mirabilis herbarium specimen

    Specimen of "Nepenthes Mirabilis" from the Herbier National

  • Galerie danatomie comparee

    Gallery of Paleontology and comparative anatomy

  • Mammuthus meridionalis Paris

    A southern mammoth skeleton in the Gallery of Paleontoloogy and Comparative Anatomy

  • Diprotodon australis skeleton 1

    Skeleton of a Diprotodon

  • Platane de Buffon (Jardin des Plantes de Paris)

    Platane planted by Buffon in 1785

  • Jardin des Plantes with Natural History Museum in the background, Paris 2014

    The formal gardens

  • Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan' in the Jardin des Plantes of Paris 004

    Prunus serrulata 'Kanzan', or Japanese cherry tree

  • Greenhouse of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris 16 January 2016

    Art Deco entrance of the "Jardin d'hiver" greenhouse (1937)

  • Jardin des plantes Paris Serre tropicale6

    Path in interior of the "Jardin d'hiver" greenhouse

  • Jardin des plantes Paris Rocher2

    Interior of the "Jardin d'hiver" greenhouse

  • Jardin Alpin @ Jardin des Plantes @ Paris (28213966515)

    In the Alpine Garden

  • Ramondia pyrenaica

    Ramonda myconi flower, from the Pyrenees

  • Alpine Garden @ Jardin des Plantes @ Paris (33705561705)

    Portion of the Alpine Garden

  • Jardin des Plantes - École de botanique Paris 5e 002

    School of Botany garden

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    The black pine of Laricio planted in the School of Botany garden in 1774

  • Jardin des Plantes de Paris, 4 April 2011

    Garden of the School of Botany

  • Bernardin de St Pierre au Jardin des Plantes - Flickr - fredpanassac

    Monument to garden director Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his famous literary characters, "Paul et Virginie"

  • P1290463 Paris V jardin des plantes gingko rwk

    The Ginkgo biloba in the small labyrinth

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    Detail of the Ginkgo biloba

  • Le kiosque du Jardin des Plantes (Paris)

    The Gloriette of Buffon

  • Gloriette-jardins-des-Plantes6

    The view from the Gloriette and its iron columns

  • Paris Jardin des Plantes 7

    The Rotonda (1804-1812)

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    The shelter of horses, by Przewalski

  • Mangouste jaune

    A mongoose in the Jardin des Plantes

  • Pink flamingos in zoo inside Jardin des Plantes, Paris

    Flamingos in the Jardin des Plantes

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    Vicunas in the Jardin des Plantes

  • Ginkgo digitata (Jardin des Plantes de Paris) - Fossil

    Ginkgo digitata found in Yorkshire, 170 million years old

  • Jardin des plantes Paris leaf Cordaites lungatus

    Fossil leaves of Cordaites lungatus

  • Pecopteris (Jardin des Plantes de Paris)

    Imprints of the extinct fern Pecopteris from Commentry, France (300 million years old),

  • Jardin des plantes Paris leaf Zamites feneonis

    Fossil leaves of Zamites feneonis

  • Maison - Buffon et Lamarck - jardin des plante Paris 06

    The Maison Buffon, residence of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  • Amphitheatre JdP

    The Amphitheater (18th c.)

  • Hôtel de Magny, Jardin des Plantes, Paris September 2013

    The Hôtel de Magny, the garden administration building

  • Parc Zoologique de Paris, 5 April 2014 (8)

    Artificial mountain in the Paris Zoological Park

  • Chamaecyparis lawsoniana tree

    Chamaecyparis lawsoniana tree in the Arboretum de Chèvreloup

  • Val Ramheh2

    View of the Jardin botanique exotique de Menton

  • La Jaysinia Botanical Garden in Samoens 02

    Alpine Garden of Jaysinia in Haut-Savoie

See also

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