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May 31, 2022 A rare event is currently delighting visitors and staff at the Botanic Garden in Munich-Nymphenburg: an Agave marmorata is blooming in the large cactus house at the Botanic Garden in Munich. Its inflorescence can reach a total height of five to seven meters. Agaves are succulent plants characterized by their very decorative, […]

April 19, 2022 From Monday, April 19, 2022, those who had to flee Ukraine will receive free admission to the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden. Every day, many refugees, mainly women and children, arrive in the Bavarian capital to seek protection and refuge from the war in Ukraine. As a sign of humanity and to give the […]

March 30, 2022 Wednesday, April 20 to Sunday, September 18, 2022 On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Gregor Mendel’s birth, the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanic Garden, together with partners from science and education, is organizing the thematic focus “It’s the mixture that counts – hybrids in nature and culture”. In cooperation with BIOTOPIA – Bavarian […]

February 14, 2022 Munich blooms Gasteig, Kunsthalle München, Botanical Garden and BIOTOPIA are joining forces to launch a citywide festival centered around the flower in 2023. Celebrating nature in the city. This is the motto of next year’s Flower Power Festival Munich 2023, which will take place from February 3 to October 7. After the […]

Stylodinium Stylodinium caught the scientists’ attention because it behaves differently from its relatives in the Dinophyta group: Stylodinium lives in some of our native bogs and attaches itself to other algae, although it can actually swim by itself. Prof. Dr. Marc Gottschling from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and Dr. Urban Tillmann from […]