Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève

CP 60
CH-1292 Chambésy
Switzerland

Tel: 41 22 418 51 00
Fax: 41 22 418 51 01
Web: http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/

The Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Geneve is a city museum. It hosts one of the world's largest herbarium and botanical libraries and manages an associated garden. Its goals are to explore the environment worldwide; extract botanical collections and associated data; ensure the conservation of living and fixed collections; perform research based on these collections in the realms of flora, vegetation, and evolution; teach botany; and contribute to the conservation of environment and species.

Materials of Special Interest

• Herbariums: Comprising the general collection G, the De Candolle Herbarium (G-DC), the Boissier Herbarium (G-BOIS), and the Burnat Herbarium (G-BU)approximately 6 million specimens total
• Library: Contains almost all information on botany ever published
• Database SIBG: A relational database allowing management of data related to the various projects of the institute (Flora del Paraguay, Flore de Corse, Flores des Alpes, African Plant Checklist, etc.) as well as management of data related to the living (garden) and fixed (herbarium) collections

Materials contributed by Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève (G):

• Specimens