Jardim Público - Beja
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ajsa
N 38° 00.790 W 007° 51.570
29S E 600116 N 4207889
The Beja City Garden is one of the loveliest places to visit in Beja specially if you want to travel in time to the dinosaur epoch.
Waymark Code: WMD088
Location: Beja, Portugal
Date Posted: 11/01/2011
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You can find and appreciate several species of trees like Schinus molle or the Brachychiton acerifolium.
If this isn't good enough, you can realy travel in time and get the chance to appreciate a truly living fossil of a Wollemia nobilis, a clone of the Wollemi-pine, a tree from the time of the dinosaurs, coming from the Wollemi National Park, a protected area on the outskirts of Sydney, Australia.
This clone was produced in 1999 and the scientific community also believed that this tree was extinct 2 million years ago, until some specimens were found in the Wollemi National Park. Several clones were obtained from these trees, using vegetative propagation, and some were auctioned by Sotheby's in October 2005.
Arboretum address:
Rua Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira
Beja, Portugal
7800 Beja
Arboretum web site: [Web Link]
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