Description

In these pavilions the collection of the plants specific for the Mediterranean Sea area are exhibited and among of them a number of utilitarian plants. The pavilion's pride is the citrus grove bearing fruits all year round as well as the impressive Phoenix canariensis palm. In the pavilion no 3 the most attention is drawn to numerous, oversized  palms, most of all Trachycarpus fortune palm. What also features is fig-tree (Ficus carica) very often covered  with a lot of fruits. One of the most attractions of this pavilion is, however, 10-metred cork oak (Quercus suber)  that delivers valuable  raw material out of which wine bottle corks have been produced over hundreds of years. One of botanic curiosities of the pavilion is the group Podocarpus sp. – conifer plants of which lancet-shaped or egg-shaped leaves very much  remind 'angiosperms' leaves. Also in pavilion no 3 there is one of the longest growing olive trees in The Poznań Palm House - Olea europaea. It survived the critical time for The Palm House which was in 1945.