CATALOGUE OF PLANT COLLECTIONS No.5 P. J. ŠAFÁRIK UNIVERSITY BOTANICAL GARDEN Košice, 2010 Slovakia CATALOGUE OF PLANT COLLECTIONS No.5 P. J. Šafárik University Botanical Garden Editor Lenka Mártonfiová Contributors Sergej Mochnacký director of the Botanical Garden Peter Fridman head of the Department of Subtropical and Tropical Flora Klára Repčáková Department of Subtropical and Tropical Flora Peter Kelbel head of Arboretum Robert Gregorek head of Alpine and Ornamental Flora Lenka Mártonfiová head of the Department of Autochtonous Flora and Documentation P. J. Šafárik University Botanical Garden Mánesova 23, 043 52 Košice Slovakia e-mail:
[email protected] [email protected] internet: www.bz.upjs.sk Press: EQUILIBRIA s.r.o., Košice, Slovakia 2 Introduction This catalogue represents the list of plant taxa cultivated in the Botanical Garden of P. J. Šafárik University. The publication is designed for research workers, university teachers and students as well as others interested in botany. This fifth edition provides a survey of families, genera, species, varieties, cultivars of plants cultivated in the Botanical Garden at present and will subsequently be supplemented with new species. The green – house plant collection comes from almost all parts of the world. The plants growing there come from tropical and subtropical region or from northern temperate zone (North America, Asia, Europe). Some of them are successfully grown in the Botanical Garden for many years. The plant collection reprsents valuable source of plants in the strategy of protection and preservation of plant biodiversity. Košice, 2010 Assoc. Prof. Sergej Mochnacký, PhD. director of the Botanical Garden 3 General information about the Botanical Garden of P.