The Giardino Botanico Litoraneo di Porto Caleri (nearly 23 hectares), also known as the Giardino Botanico Litoraneo del Veneto, is a nature preserve and botanical garden located on Via Porto Caleri, Rosolina Mare, Rosolina, Province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy. It is open several days a week in the warmer months.
The garden was established in 1990, and operated by the Servizio Forestale Regionale di Padova e Rovigo in collaboration with the University of Padua. It consists of a thin strip of sand dunes between the mouth of the river Adige and the Po di Levante, containing indigenous vegetation of loose sand, salt marsh, and pine and elm forests. All told, it contains a dozen ecosystems with about 220 plant species, including native orchids. Three footpaths (600 meters, 1650 meters, and 2850 meters in length) allow close observation of the environment.
Specimens
The garden's species include:
Agropyretum juncei
Agropyron junceum
Ambrosia maritima
Ammophila littoralis
Ammophiletum arenariae
Artemisia coerulescens
Arthrocnemum fruticosum
Aster tripolium
Cakile marittima
Calystegia soldanella
Centaurea tommasinii
Cephalantera
Cladium mariscus
Conyza canadensis
Cycloloma atriplicifolia
Cynodon dactylon
Cyperus kalli
Echinophoro spinosae
Enteromorpha
Erianthus ravennae
Eryngium maritimum
Frangula alnus
Halimione portulacoides
Hippophae rhamnoides
Juniperus communis
Limonium serotinum
Oenothera biennis
Ophrys sphecodes
Orchis morio
Phillyrea
Phragmites australis
Pinus pinaster
Pinus pinea
Puccinellia palustris
Quercus ilex
Scabiosa argentea
Schoenus
nigricans
Typha
Ulmus minor
Ulva
Vulpia membranacea
Xanthium italicum
Zosteretum noltii
See also
List of botanical gardens in Italy
References
Comune di Rosolina - Giardino Botanico Litoraneo di Porto Caleri
Magico Veneto description (Italian) with photographs
Rosolina Mare description (Italian) Il Giardino Botanico Litoraneo del Veneto
