The Orto Botanico dei Frignoli (7 hectares) is a

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located at 900 metres elevation on SS63 del Passo del Cerreto,

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. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden was originally established in 1932 as a nursery of the Corpo Forestale dello Stato (

State Forestry Corps The State Forestry Corps (Italian: ''Corpo forestale dello Stato'' or ''CFS'') was a national police agency in Italy. It was established on 15 October 1822 by Charles Felix of Sardinia as Amministrazione forestale per la custodia e la vigilanza ...

). In 1990 it became a provincial botanical garden with help from Comunità Montana and the Museo di Storia Naturale della

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. Today the garden includes an arboretum containing about one hundred

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of woody plants from the

Apuan Alps The Apuan Alps () are a mountain range in northern Tuscany, Italy. They are included between the valleys of the Serchio and Magra rivers, and, to the northwest, the Garfagnana and Lunigiana, with a total length of approximately . The name deri ...

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, and

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regions. Its plantings reproduce various mountain environments, as well as local food plants and natural areas.

References

Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza description (Italian)

Aptmassacarrara entry (Italian)

ZeroDelta description (Italian)
* Touring Club Italiano, ''L'Italia dei giardini'', Touring Editore, 2005, pages 84–85. . Botanical gardens in Italy Gardens in Tuscany {{Italy-garden-stub

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