Let's start a walk through the ofievsky Park in Uman!

National dendrological park “Sofiyivka” is a park and research institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, located in the northern part of Uman city in Cherkassy oblast, on the banks of Kamenka River.

In this and the following articles I will write about different parts of the Park and unique plants in it.

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In the park there are several entrances and entrances, we began our excursion from the side of the administrative buildings.

You can see the map.

From Wikipedia:
The park accounts for over 2,000 types of trees and brush (local and exotic) among which are taxodium (marsh cypress), Weymouth Pine, tulip tree, platanus, ginkgo, and many others.

So, having entered from the side of administrative buildings, the first thing that we began to consider the Alpine slide:

What are these purple flowers?

This is a plant from the genus rhododendron!

Rhododendron is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family.

Maybe you know the exact name of this plant?

to be continued...