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One of the biggest botanical gardens of the planet – Kirstenbosh – is in vicinities of Cape Town, the Republic of South Africa, at a foot of the Table mountain, on its east slope. The area of the National botanical garden Kirstenbosh (Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden) – about 530 hectares. However, directly the garden occupies only 40 hectares, other territory is occupied with a natural melkolesye and mountains, here lives a great number of birds and animals.
The most part of the plants (about 7 thousand types) presented in a botanical garden – endemik of South Africa, rather rare and unique representatives of flora of this continent. The botanical garden in 1913 was based, preservation of rare plants of the South of Africa became a main goal of creation of such unique object, whose habitat was destroyed by new settlers.
Kirstenbosh location – the center of the Cape region, the so-called Cape of Flora, carries one more, "speaking" name – the Kingdom of flowers. From time immemorial, even before arrival of the European settlers in the 17th century, grew up fruit and other cultural plants here.
Walk on the well-groomed, laid-out by stones footpaths of a botanical garden will bring the mass of pleasure, after all the surrounding landscape strikes with a variety. There is a Garden of herbs and the Garden of aromas, and also a greenhouse in which plants inhabitants of savannas are presented, a penalty and a finbosh here – district types, typical for Africa.
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