Jardin Musée de Limeuil

The Jardin Musée de Limeuil, also known as the Jardin ethnobotanique de Limeuil, is botanical garden located in Limeuil, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France.

The garden was created in 1980 as a collaboration between botanists, ethnologists, and historians to display plants of ethnobotanical importance through the ages. It opened to the public in 1992. Today the garden contains sections of plantings representing Prehistoric France, the neolithic era, pre-Roman Gaul, Gallo-Roman culture, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and contemporary cultivation. It contains wild relatives of today's crops (414 species), wild tomato (2 species and 50 cultivars), ancient fruit varieties (90 species), deciduous trees (68 species), conifers (3 species), and medicinal and ornamental plants from five continents. Its herbarium contains about 10,000 specimens.

See also

• List of botanical gardens in France

References

• Jardin Musée de Limeuil
• BGCI entry
• Plurielles entry (French)