Jardim Botânico UC

Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra | Fundado em 1772

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Golden hour in the tropical corner 💛
Beautiful photo @margaridamartinss, thanks!

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Venha comemorar o dia Internacional das Florestas com uma selfie no Jardim Botânico, junto à sua árvore favorita #JBUC! 🌳📸 Aqui fica o registo dos incansáveis comunicadores da UC! Muito obrigado 💚🙏

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Winter rose
#helleborus

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Birds in a sea of magnolias 💜

Great video @marina_dmitruk, thanks! https://t.co/oWAlmdij70

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The cloudy areas in this photo are made of pollen from a male yew / teixo [Taxus baccata] tree!
This massive amount of pollen is spread by wind and will, by chance, hopefully fall on a female tree...

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A path through the magnolias

Beautiful photo by @asobolev, thank you!

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Today was a happy day for the University of Coimbra, with dozens of students planting hundreds of trees at Quinta de São Marcos 🌱

These small plants were adopted and taken care of by first year students and will now grow at their new home! Thank you to all who helped and pa…

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Our visitors are always surprising us with original views of the Botanic Garden 🎋⚪💎
Thanks @view_through_lensball!

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Magnolia white ♡

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Beautiful photo @anabe_neves, thanks!

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Magnolias are back! 💜

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Beautiful photo by @cicicorreia!
Thank you 🙂

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A winter sunset colouring our orchard, an unusual perspective of the garden Woods 🧡

Beautiful photo @verinhabuh, thank you!

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Hybrid winter roses bloom in several colours, sometimes with spotted patterns.
This single-flower variety belongs to the Helleborus × hybridus 'White Lady Spotted', which was created by Gisela Schmiemann, a german helleborus collector.

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We are very happy to be collaborating with Parque Natural Obô of São Tomé, and we just put up new tags to identify the plant collections at the Botanic Garden of Bom Sucesso 💚

This activity was done within the scope of the project "National Herbarium: a reference for knowle…

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Some gardens have pigeons...
at the Botanic Garden we have a large grey heron [Ardea cinerea] that visits everyday 💚

Thank you @3dsaur for the great photo!

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New perspectives over a 230 years old Central Square 🖤

By @val.r0drigues. Beautiful photo, thanks!

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This week we'll be in São Tomé e Príncipe working in the National Herbarium project, with CEPF and Birdlife International @birdlife_insta.

This photo was taken in 1888 in order to show an endemic screw pine [Pandanus thomensis] 🖤

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Camellias, in their infinite variety of shapes and colours, are in flower at the Botanic Garden 💗
#camellia #camelliajaponica

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A beautiful Alexander palm [Archontophoenix alexandrae], native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, growing in our tropical corner.
Thanks @soniavazmartins for the great photo!