Agentschap Meise Botanic Garden

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Agentschap Meise Botanic GardenBelgium

Agentschap Meise Botanic Garden

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Meise Botanic Garden (92 hectares), with 18,000 plant species, a Herbarium of around 4 million collection items, of which nearly 2 Mio have been digitized. The emphasis lies on plant systematics, floristics, ecology, botanical history, ethnobotany, and horticulture, as well for plants, algae and fungi. The library and the archives of the Botanic Garden are leading in Europe. The Garden is an active member of the Flemish Open Science Board (FOSB) and expert in Biodiversity Informatics.