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California Botanic Garden

Claremont, Italy

California Botanic Garden

The California Botanic Garden (formerly the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden) is a non-profit botanical garden in Claremont, California, in the United States, just south of the San Gabriel foothills. At 86 acres (35 ha), it is the largest botanic garden in the state dedicated to California native pla

nts. It contains some 70,000 native Californian plants, representing 2,000 native species, hybrids and cultivars. The seed bank has embryos for the thousands of rare plants. The garden has an active research department, specializing in systematic botany and floristics. The journal Aliso is published by the organization semiannually. The garden offers graduate degrees in botany through Claremont Graduate University.

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