Jardin Botanique de Montréal (JBM)

The Jardin botanique de Montréal or Montreal Botanical Garden, is one of four municipal scientific museums committed to biodiversity and sustainable development. The botanical garden has approximately 22,000 taxa (species and cultivars) in culture in its 30 or so exterior thematic gardens and 10 exhibition greenhouses. The major exterior gardens include an arboretum, an alpine garden, a perennial and shade garden as well as Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Gardens. Greenhouses contain extensive orchid, aroid, begonia, gesneriad, bromeliad, succulent and fern collections.

Contact: Stéphane Bailleul (stephanemarc.bailleul@ville.montreal.qc.ca)

Home Page: http://espacepourlavie.ca/jardin-botanique

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Data snapshot of local collection database

Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

• 1,265 occurrence
• 37 (3%) georeferenced
• 666 (53%) identified to species
• 30 families
• 35 genera
• 250 species
• 250 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)