Map
Display Groups
- Entrances
- Broad-leaved trees in total more than 1.500 individuals of c. 600 species and cultivars, amongst those c. 900 trees, incl. marvellous old individuals like the Jacquin-Plane Tree (living historical monument) at the Rennweg
- The "Flora of Austria" with the main focus Pannonian Group (Groups 38, 40, 41, 42): presentation and conservation of species of dry habitats in Eastern Austria like forest- and stone steppe or dry grasslands on acid or basic soils, salty substrates or sand dunes - i.e., of plant communities today only fragmentary having survived in Austria
- Conifers: c. 100 species of gymnosperms from Europe, Asia and Northern America; most trees of the Conifers in groups 20 to 28, were planted towards the end of the 19. century
- Bamboo grove (Phyllostachys viridiglaucescens): proven to be continuously present at this place since at least 1893, today covering an area of c. 300 m2
- Water basins and pools: partly dating back to the time of the foundation of the garden (see history). With interesting species like the Lotos flower
- Useful plants: c. 300 species, mostly used for the training of students and for information of visitors
- Systematic groups (arrangement of the plants according to their relationships): displayed in English landscape garden style in groups 1 to 18 for the dicotyledonous plants; group 19 shows the monocotyledonous plants; species and families are, to the extend possible, arranged according to their natural relationship: species of the same genus directly next to each other, related genera in the same or in neighbouring plant beds
- Cold greenhouse and Canary Islands groups: c. 150 subtropical and mediterranean species not hardy in our climate; only displayed in summer
- Flower biology, fruit biology, and morphology (Biology of plants)
- Alpine plants: c. 800 species, mostly originating from the European alpine areas (Alps, dinarian-illyrian mountains, Pyrenees)
- Cactii and other succulents: except for some hardy species of Opuntia only displayed in summer. Divided in an Old World and a New World part and two special groups: Southern Africa and Madagascar. Between the succulent plants annual species native to the corresponding dry areas of the Old and New World
- Tropical house, Victoria basin, and display vitrines (tropical useful and ornamental species)
- Cold greenhouse (exhibitions in summer)
- The Botanicum (The "Grüne Schule")
- Glasshouses
- Reserve-, service- and storage areas (not open to the public)
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research
- Mozart-Plane Tree (left) and Jacquin-Ginkgo (right)
Plant labels
The plant labels carry indispensable information about the plants on display in the Botanic Garden. Each label shows the minimum necessary data, and sometimes additional information.