| The Garden by our visitors | A beautiful Alexander palm [Archontophoenix alexandrae], native to Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, growing in our tropical corner. Thanks @soniavazmartins for the great photo!

Camellias, in their infinite variety of shapes and colours, are in flower at the Botanic Garden 💗 #camellia #camelliajaponica

| The Garden Album | This week we'll be in São Tomé e Príncipe working in the National Herbarium project, with CEPF and Birdlife International @birdlife_insta. This photo was taken in 1888 in order to show an endemic screw pine [Pandanus thomensis] 🖤

| The Garden by our visitors | New perspectives over a 230 years old Central Square 🖤 By Val.r0drigues. Beautiful photo, thanks!

| The Garden by our visitors | Some gardens have pigeons... at the Botanic Garden we have a large grey heron [Ardea cinerea] that visits everyday 💚 Thank you @3dsaur for the great photo!

We are very happy to be collaborating with Parque Natural Obô of São Tomé, and we just put up new tags to identify the plant collections at the Botanic Garden of Bom Sucesso 💚 This activity was done within the scope of the project "National Herbarium: a reference for knowle…

Hybrid winter roses bloom in several colours, sometimes with spotted patterns. This single-flower variety belongs to the Helleborus × hybridus 'White Lady Spotted', which was created by Gisela Schmiemann, a german helleborus collector.

| The Garden by our visitors | A winter sunset colouring our orchard, an unusual perspective of the garden Woods 🧡 Beautiful photo @verinhabuh, thank you!

| The Garden by our visitors | Beautiful photo by Lucimara Correia! Thank you 🙂

Magnolias are back! 💜

| The Garden by our visitors | Beautiful photo @anabe_neves, thanks!

Magnolia white ♡

| The Garden by our visitors | Our visitors are always surprising us with original views of the Botanic Garden 🎋⚪💎 Thanks @view_through_lensball!

Today was a happy day for the University of Coimbra, with dozens of students planting hundreds of trees at Quinta de São Marcos 🌱 These small plants were adopted and taken care of by first year students and will now grow at their new home! Thank you to all who helped and pa…

| The Garden by our visitors | A path through the magnolias Beautiful photo by Alexander Sobolev, thank you!

The cloudy areas in this photo are made of pollen from a male yew / teixo [Taxus baccata] tree! This massive amount of pollen is spread by wind and will, by chance, hopefully fall on a female tree...

| The Garden by our visitors | Birds in a sea of magnolias 💜 Great video @marina_dmitruk, thanks! ift.tt/2UgbVuz

Winter rose #helleborus

Venha comemorar o dia Internacional das Florestas com uma selfie no Jardim Botânico, junto à sua árvore favorita #JBUC! 🌳📸 Aqui fica o registo dos incansáveis comunicadores da UC! Muito obrigado 💚🙏

| The Garden by our visitors | Golden hour in the tropical corner 💛 Beautiful photo @margaridamartinss, thanks!