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In the Botanical Gardens you can admire hundreds of plant varieties, set in a peaceful shady park, which is a great place to rest out from the sun. There are plants and flowers that were brought from South America.
The Botanical Gardens were formed in 1788 by King Carlos III as a part of an experiment to see if it was possible to acclimatize plants to live in different climate zones. The other name for the Botanical Gardens is El Jardin de Aclimatacion de La Orotava, La Orotava Acclimatisation Garden.
The range of species in the Botanical Gardens is wide and includes 4,000 plant varieties. In the garden you can admire cinnamon trees, pepper trees, breadfruit trees and tulip trees mingle with coffee bushes and mango trees to name just a few. You can also be amazed by beautiful hothouse orchids.
Tropical plants and flowers where taken from the Botanical Gardens to similar Royal Gardens in Madrid and Aranjuez in Spain, but they didn’t survive in the mainland. The mainland Spain is simply to cold, especially in winter. Many other varieties that were brought to Tenerife failed to put down roots even in the Botanical Gardens.
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