Review:

The UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley is a magnificent urban garden famous for its collection of rare and endangered species.

A 34-acre garden is located on the campus of University of California, Berkeley in Strawberry Canyon, in the Berkeley Hills, offering wonderful views of the San Francisco Bay.

Established in 1890, the garden is known for having one of the most diverse collections of plants in the United States.

It contains about 12,000 species and subspecies of plants and almost all of them have been collected in the wild.

The Garden's outdoor collections are arranged according to their geographic origins. The major collections are Cactus, Lily, Sunflower, Heath and Orchid.

There are also 500 types of ferns and fern-allies; a collection of Chinese medicinal herbs; Old rose cultivars;plants of serious economic importance; and California natives.

UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley, 200 Centennial Dr, Berkeley, California 94720, Phone: 510-643-2755

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