Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden

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The Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden (神奈川県立フラワーセンター 大船植物園) is a botanical garden located at 1018 Okamoto, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan. It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.

The garden was founded in 1961 as the Prefectural Flower Center Ofuna Botanical Garden on a former site of the Kanagawa National Agricultural Experiment Stations. It currently contains about 5,700 species with notable collections of Azalea, Camellia, Iris kaempferi, Paeonia suffruticosa, Paeonia lactiflora, and Selaginella tamariscina.

References

• Kanagawa Prefectural Ofuna Botanical Garden (Japanese)
• BGCI entry
• Kamakura City guide

See also

• List of botanical gardens in Japan

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