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.

[edit] References

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

[edit] See also

• List of botanical gardens in Japan