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Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore
Botanical garden for alpine plants at Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Alpine Botanical Garden of Campo Imperatore (Giardino Botanico Alpino di Campo Imperatore, 3000 m2) is a botanical garden for alpine plants located at Campo Imperatore, L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. It is operated by the University of L'Aquila.
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The garden was founded in 1952 by botanist Vincenzo Rivera [it]. It collects plants local to the nearby Gran Sasso massif of the Apennine Mountains, including hundreds of grass species, false bilberry, greater gentian, and the Apennine edelweiss.