A living ark
Rare species
The garden's most important collection is its most inconspicuous one. These are rare and endangered plants, saved here from extinction and carefully grown under the eye of scientists.
A living ark
The garden's most important collection is its most inconspicuous one. These are rare and endangered plants, saved here from extinction and carefully grown under the eye of scientists.
Botanical gardens around the world have become a last refuge for many plants. The Baku garden is one of them: it keeps species of which ever fewer remain in the wild.
Rare species
The garden holds a collection of 125 rare and endangered species of Caucasian flora, listed in the Red Books of Azerbaijan and the former USSR. Each of them is under special care.
These plants are not merely kept — they are studied and propagated, to return them to nature or preserve them for future generations.
Rare species
The loss of a single species is a loss that cannot be made good. By conserving rare plants, the garden protects not only beauty but the fragile balance of living nature.
So an ordinary-looking flower bed or tree may turn out to be a real treasure, saved from disappearance.
Conservation of flora
125 species from the Red Books of Azerbaijan and the former USSR.
Special attention to the rare plants of the Caucasus.
Rare species are not only kept but also propagated.
The garden as a refuge for endangered plants.
The number and make-up of rare species are refined by specialists; data are given from open sources.