Botanic Garden

Flora Argentina

Phytolacca dioica - tree relative of pokeweed

Yerba mate, Ilex paraguariensis

On Wednesday morning I went up to visit the botanic garden Carlos Thays on the border of Palermo.  The garden was started in the late 1800s as a place to test the hardiness of plants that could be used to beautify the streets and parks of the growing city, but now serves the multiple purposes of education, conservation and beautification.  Carlos Thays was a landscape architect who designed many of the large parks and avenues in Buenos Aires at the turn of the century.   It houses a nice collection of trees native to Argentina as well as introduced trees.  There is a small section of plants ordered by family and a large conservatory with tropical plants.

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