Review article
https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.142.7-8.7
Woody plants of the main part of the Bečov Botanical Garden
Markéta Špaková
; Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Department of Biology, Czech Republic
Božena Šerá
orcid.org/0000-0001-5275-1015
; Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Department of Landscape Ecology, Slovakia
Abstract
The Bečov Botanical Garden is one of the three botanical gardens in district Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic). The garden was established in 1918 by duke Heinrich Beaufort–Spontini as landscape park and rockery. For decades the garden was neglected and abandoned, and it was unveiled to the public in 2005. Two parts of the original area were chosen for this study – the former landscape park and the slope with rockery. In total, 471 woody plants were recorded, 104 of them were coniferous and 367 broad-leaved species. There are 22 families, 40 genera and 85 of taxa in total, 30 of them belonging to gymnosperms and 55 to angiosperms. Some of the trees planted at the time of the founding of the garden have remained until today: Amur cork tree (Phellodendron amurense Rupr.), katsura (Cercidiphyllum japonicum Siebold et Zucc.), hardy kiwi (Actinidia arguta /Siebold et Zucc./ Planch. ex Miq.), Jezo spruce (Picea jezoensis /Siebold et Zucc./ Carriére), and Engelmann spruce (P. engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.).
Keywords
dendrological evaluation; Bečov Botanical Garden; Bečov nad Teplou; coniferous trees; broad-leaved trees; Czech Republic
Hrčak ID:
205270
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Publication date:
31.8.2018.
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