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| Address and contact details | |
| Name of Garden: | Exeter University |
| The Grounds & Garden of the University of Exeter, Department of Biological Sciences, Prince of Wales Road, Exeter, Devon, EX44PX | |
| Tel: 01392 263059 | |
| Fax: 01392 264547 | |
| Email: | |
| Web site: | |
| Latitude: 50° 44' 03" N | |
| Longitude: 3° 31' 55" W | |
| (mapquest.com provides an excellent way of checking how accurate your co-ordinates are) | |
| Background to the collection | |
| Year founded: | 1922 |
| Ownership: | University of Exeter |
| Garden code: | EXR |
| Umbrella organisation: | National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens |
| i.e. PlantNet, BGCI, NCCPG; ICCP etc. | |
| Personnel | |
| Please include actual titles in brackets after the name i.e. Owner, Director/Manager, Curator/Head gardener. If you have other administrative staff, i.e. taxonomists, education officers etc. please add extra rows. | |
| Superintendent of grounds: | S.C. Scarr |
| Contact person: | S.C. Scarr |
| Total Staff: | |
| Total Horticultural Staff: | |
| Policies | |
| Accessions: | To continue to expand the plant collection using all possible microclimates |
| Collections: | |
| Physical environment | |
| Altitude: | 65 m |
| Soil type: | Clay, Acid |
| Aspect: | South, west and varied |
| Total area: | 101 ha |
| Area heated: | |
| Other sites of collection: | |
| Weather records | Records kept |
| Temperature | |
| Average daily: | 10.75 °C |
| Av. monthly max: | 16 °C |
| Av. monthly min: | 5.5 °C |
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| Wind | |
| Direction: | South and west |
| Strength: | Above average |
| Rainfall | |
| Average annual: | 750 mm |
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| Plant collection | |
| Families: | 172 |
| Genera: | 899 |
| Species: | 4560 |
| Taxa: | 5416 |
| Number of accessions: | |
| Plants: | 150 000 |
| Notable plants within the collection: | |
| Original Lucombe oaks, rare Fraxinus xanthoxyloides var. dimorpha, rare Quercus infectoria | |
| Geographical area(s) of specialisation: | |
| Special families within the collections: | |
| Flacourtiaceae, Pinaceae, Ericaceae, Liliaceae, Leguminosae, Rosaceae, Compositae, Labiatae, Gramineae, Saxifragaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Cupressaceae, Cactaceae, Rutaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Ranunculaceae, Oleaceae, Iridaceae, Cruciferae, Scrophulariaceae | |
| Special genera within the collections: | |
| Special collections: | |
| Azara, NCCPG – 7 Species, 12 Taxa, 55 Plants. Conifers,CCP – 19 Genera, 46 Taxa, 126 Accessions. Exeter University Research Collection, UNIV | |
| Record Keeping: | Kept since 1960 Computerised |
| Record System: | unknown |
| Are phenological records kept? | |
| Plant-collecting trips: | No |
| Facilities on site | |
| Herbarium: | No |
| Library: | No |
| Research facilities: | General biological laboratories, micro propagation, cryopreservation, sub-cellular microscopy, molecular |
| Publications: | Index seminum. Other publications: Tour Guide |
| Identifications: | No |
| Teaching and Education: | Higher |
| Interpretation: | Brochures |
| Friends Organisation: | No |
| Visitor facilities: | Café, book shop |
| Access to the collections - Who can visit, when etc. | |
| What are the conditions of Access to the collections? | |
| Public access: | Free |
| How many visitors do you get a year? | |
| Public opening hours: | Mon-Sun: Dawn to dusk |
| Guiding principles behind the collection | |
| The garden's policy is to expand its collection of trees, shrubs, herbs and bulbs as a base for conservation, teaching and research, but to use it to enhance the landscape of the Exeter University campus. | |
| Location map | |
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