Crop Plants
Native Crop Plants
Above the tropical house complex, the native crop plants are presented in all their diversity on an elongated terrace, with the plant species categorised thematically:
- Spices and herbs
- Vegetables
- Protein, starch and sugar-producing plants
- Cereals
- Oil plants
- Dye and fibre plants
The crop areas are intensively integrated into teaching in particular. Guided tours with school classes are also frequently organised in these departments in order to explain the connection between the products we use every day and the original plants.
Tropical and Subtropical Crop Plants
Cocoa, coffee, pepper, bananas or cotton. These are just a few examples of products that everyone knows these days. But what the plants from which the products originate look like is often unknown. The most important useful plants from the tropics and subtropics - food plants and technically utilised plants - are presented in two greenhouses in the tropical house complex. The planting in the greenhouses is organised thematically according to their main use.
In addition to purely botanical tours, events focussing on "Education for Sustainable Development" (ESD) are regularly held here. The example of crops produced in countries of the global south in particular can be used to vividly illustrate the impact of our costly lifestyle in other parts of the world.
