LSU Hilltop Arboretum
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| LSU Hilltop Arboretum | |
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 LSU Hilltop Arboretum, Main Building | |
| Location | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States |
| Nearest city | Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
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The Hilltop Arboretum at Louisiana State University (14 acres) is an arboretum owned by the Louisiana State University.[1] It is located at 11855 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and open to the public free of charge during daylight hours seven days a week.
The arboretum was developed by Mr. and Mrs. Emory Smith, starting in 1929, and donated to the university in 1981. The Smiths planned the garden to follow the form of a cathedral: "It had a central great hall or nave, and from that - in every direction - ran hallways leading to other rooms and on to others, with niches and passageways of every description. The nave and other rooms were the grassy plots; the walls were trees, shrubs, and bamboo; the pillars were old tree trunks."[2]
The arboretum collection includes bamboo, beech, birch, black cherry, black walnut, box elder, buckeye, camellia, cherry laurel, cow oak, clethra, crape myrtle, cypress, dogwood, elm, fig, Formosan gum, green hawthorn, hickory, hop hornbeam, holly, illicium, ironwood, Japanese maple, Justicia, ligustrum, magnolia, live oak, loquat, pecan, persimmon, pine, red maple, red oak, sassafras, sawtooth oak, short leaf pine, silver bell, silver maple, sourwood, spruce pine, sugar maple, sweet gum, sweet olive, sycamore, tulip tree, viburnum, vaccinium, water oak, and yaupon.
Gallery[]
Boardwalk
Pavilion
Midden (Mound soil now relocated to form amphitheater)
Pond
Trail
See also[]
- List of botanical gardens in the United States
References[]
- ^ "LSU Hilltop Arboretum". lsu.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
- ^ "LSU Hilltop Arboretum". visitbatonrouge.com. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
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Coordinates: 30°21′23″N 91°05′41″W / 30.35636°N 91.09486°W
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