“Prof. Dr. Ioan Todor” Botanical Garden, a perspective on the vegetal world of the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic area

Located near Herăstrău Park (the current King Mihai I Park), in the Domenii district, the “Ioan Todor” Botanical Garden of the Bucharest University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine is an oasis of biodiversity, a microuniverse of plants, where there are over a thousand characteristic species to the different levels of vegetation in Romania, decorative species through the harbor, flowers and leaves, but also rare plants, some discovered by Prof.
V. Ciocârlan in the flora of our country (Seseli giganteum). Here you can currently admire the five peony species that grow spontaneously on the territory of Romania – Paeonia peregrina, Paeonia tenuifolia, Paeonia triternata, Paeonia mascula, Paeonia officinalis ssp. banatica, as well as the three cultivated species – Paeonia officinalis, Paeonia lactyflora, Paeonia suffruticosa. The Botanic Garden was established, designed, and laid out in 1870 as a base for agronomist students, and its existence is intertwined with that of the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest, the oldest agronomic higher education institution in Romania.
The key moments in the existence of the botanical garden were marked by the years 1949, 1954-1955, and 2004, when the space underwent modernization and redevelopment.
In 2004, the botanical garden was renamed “Prof.
Dr.
Ioan Todor”, a tribute to the creator of the current garden structure.
The garden currently spans an area of approximately 1.3 ha and is divided into four sectors: systematic, geobotanical, utilitarian, and decorative.

EHC2024: International Symposium on the History of Horticulture in Europe

E.D. Lorentz, E. Săvulescu, V. Luchian, M. Georgescu

biodiversity, endemic and decorative species, peony, plant world, peony species

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2025.1438.9