05.10.2024 - 06.10.2024 By popular demand, only on October 5 and 6, the Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus invites you to a tour of the exhibition of rare and protected plants that are included in the Red Book of the Republic of Belarus. Despite the fall and the fact that most species have finished their growing season, visitors to the tour will be able to see a number of interesting plants that do not lose their decorative effect even in autumn. Among them are ferns - royal celandine, floating salvinia and common centipede, protected species of club mosses and horsetails (baranets club moss, variegated horsetail). You can also see rare species of sedge - Davel, bird-footed, rhizome. In bloom are the coin-leaved sunflower, steppe aster, straight stachys, yellow flax, large-flowered foxglove. A number of marsh plants will also be presented to your attention - low birch, blueberry and Lappish willow. The exhibition contains the rarest pearls of the Belarusian flora. To see them in nature, you need to get into the very heart of untouched swamps, forests and meadows in geographically remote regions. The collection contains more than 120 endangered plant species. During the excursion, you will be able to: talk to researchers who study protected species; see the rarest plants of the Belarusian flora and get useful information about them; learn interesting facts about protected plants, their value and the need for protection. The excursion to rare plants will take place on October 5 and 6 at 12:00 and 14:00, duration ~ 35 min. The group for the excursion is formed near the service entrance to the botanical garden. No prior registration required. To participate in the excursion, an entrance ticket to the botanical garden is purchased. For more information, call: +375 29 320 17 17; +375 17 379 69 15.
