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Bucharest Botanical Garden

"Dimitrie Brândza"Botanical Garden of the University of Bucharest. the garden bears the name of its founder since 1994. It is located in the Cotroceni district of Bucharest, Romania. It covers an area of ​​17.5 hectares (including 4,000 m² of greenhouses) and has over 10,000 plant species.

The first botanical garden in Bucharest was founded in 1860, next to the Faculty of Medicine, by Carol Davila. The garden was moved to the present space in 1884 by Dimitrie Brândza, Romanian botanist, one of the founders of the Romanian botanical school, and Louis Fuchs, a Belgian landscape architect. The garden was inaugurated in 1891 after the greenhouses were built and populated but was affected by the flood that occurred in 1892. The garden was damaged during World War I when it was used by German occupation troops, in the Second World War, when it was touched by the Anglo-American bombing of April 4, 1944. Then, out of over 700,000 planes of the herb, only 200,000 were saved. The herbarium of the Botanical Garden in Bucharest today has about 500,000 floors, being organized on two main sections.