Tallinn Botanic Garden

Description

The Tallinn Botanic Garden (TBG) was founded on 1 December 1961 as an institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Starting in 1959, over 50 expeditions were organized to build up the collections of TBG. The expeditions covered the area of the USSR from the Crimea to the Kuril Islands.The herbarium of the Tallinn Botanic Garden (acronym TALL) was founded in 1962. The expeditions and studies of the scientists working in the Tallinn Botanic Garden laid the foundation for the herbarium. Over decades, extensive work on the herbarium resulted in the collections of vascular plants, woody plants, the carpological collection, bryophytes, lichens and fungi.

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Allan Zirk
email: allan.zirk@ut.ee

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Merlyn Pajur
Telephone: + 372 6062 673
email: merlyn.pajur@botaanikaaed.ee

Tallinn Botanic Garden
Kloostrimetsa Street 52
Tallinn
11913
Harju County
EE
email: merlyn.pajur@botaanikaaed.ee