Plants at the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

The list of plants found in cultivation and in a wild state at the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens can be downloaded as a pdf. document here.

List of plants

  This list will be updated on a yearly basis.  Currently, the list consists of some 1900 species, subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars.  Over 1600 species are in cultivation at the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens.  Since Gibraltar sits on the shore of the Mediterranean, it is no surprise that the collection at ‘The Alameda’ includes many species from habitats found in Mediterranean climatic zones worldwide.  Our collection also includes a large number of succulent plants from around the world.  Indeed, succulents can be considered these gardens’ speciality as over 1000 of our 1900 plants are succulents.  Aloe species are particularly well represented.

Classification by family follows the recommendations made by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003; APG II).  All families listed are either those recommended as good families (e.g., Apocynaceae which now includes plants formerly classified as Asclepiadaceae), or those allowed as optional segregates (e.g., Agapanthaceae and Ammaryllidaceae, which are grouped together within the Alliaceae under the APG II system).  Although these classifications have met with resistance from some botanists and horticulturalists, it should be understood that molecular analyses further our understanding of true, rather than inferred phylogenetic relationships such as those achieved in cladistic analyses based on morphology.

Any comments or queries regarding the plant list should be directed to Dr. Keith Bensusan (kbensusan "'at'" gibraltargardens.gi).

References

Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003). An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 141: 399-436.