Once again, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden presents its Index Seminum, the catalogue of seeds and fruits that we make available to the scientific community and other botanical gardens around the world through the international exchange network.
This edition marks a turning point in the management of our collections. Following the guidelines of the Garden’s new collections plan, this year we have opted for a much more careful and strategic selection. This has resulted in a conscious reduction in the volume of the offer, going from the 231 references of last year to the 101 current species.
The objective of this change is to prioritize quality and botanical value, giving more relevance to those species with greater botanical or historical singularity for Marimurtra, in order to focus on the rigour of reference botanical collections.
Within this list of 101 species, some of great interest stand out:
Cneorum tricoccon: a jewel of the Mediterranean flora closely linked to the identity of our environment.
Sabal bermudana and Brahea armata: representatives of the palm collection that have historically defined the landscape of Marimurtra.
Gonospermum ferulaceum and several species of Sonchus: which reinforce our important collection of Canary Islands flora.
Acer granatense: a singular representative of the western Mediterranean flora that provides great conservation value.
The success of the Index Seminum is demonstrated every year by its great international reception. During the previous year, a total of 20 requests from 14 countries around the world were sent.
With this new edition, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden reaffirms its commitment to research, biodiversity conservation and the exchange of knowledge with the global botanical community.
You can consult the complete list of the Index Seminum 2025-2026 at the following link: https://marimurtra.cat/en/order-seeds/.
This index is also published jointly within that of the Ibero-Macaronesian Association of Botanical Gardens (AIMJB).
