UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB FACULTY OF SCIENCE – DIVISION OF BIOLOGY BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT AND BOTANICAL GARDEN The 115 Anniversary of the BOTANICAL GARDEN Ú 1889 – 2004 Ú DELECTUS SEMINUM 2004 E COLLECTIONE ANNI 2004 QUAE HORTUS BOTANICUS FACULTATIS SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM UNIVERSITATIS ZAGRABIENSIS PRO MUTUA OFFERT COMMUTATIONE 1 BOTANICAL GARDEN of the Faculty of Science Marulićev trg 9 HR-10000 Zagreb, CROATIA Tel.: +385-1-484002; Fax: +385-1-4843822; E-mail:
[email protected] http://public.srce.hr/botanic/biologija/biology/Delectus-Zagreb-2004.pdf Director: Professor Branka Pevalek-Kozlina Garden Assistants: Garden Manager: Sanja Kovačić, MSc Biserka Juretić, MSc Darko Mihelj, BSc Vanja Stamenković, BSc Technical manager: Seed collector: Katarina Senfner Dubravka Naumovski, BSc Garden parterre Renewed bridge Renewed greenhouse AREA OF THE GARDEN: 4.7 ha NUMBER OF TAXA: approx. 10 000 CLIMATHOLOGICAL DATA (in course of 1960-1999): Abs max. annual temperature: 37.2 °C Abs min. annual temperature: -17.2 °C Mean annual precipitation: 889.9 mm Mean annual sunshine/hrs: 1832.5 Mean annual days with snow (>/=1 cm): 32.5 The 115th Anniversary Exhibition 110 Prec. (mm) 96,988,892,9 87,9 100 80,5 85,777,5 90 T (ºC) 80 55,464,6 64,7 6070 45,944,1 4050 30 16,419,621,520,917,1 20 7,5 11,9 11,96,5 100 0,9 3,3 2,0 t b r y g p c e a pr Jul Jan F M A Ma Jun Au Se O Nov Dec 2 The 115 Anniversary of the Botanical Garden Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb The idea to found a botanical garden was mooted as far back as 1876 by Bohuslav Jiruš, then the first professor of botany at Zagreb University.