Botanical Garden of Hacienda Santa Rosa is situated in old installations of a fruit plantation where the plants are watering by irrigation channels. The garden has a total extension of 9 200 m2 and are planted a total of 239 species distributed in 67 families and 177 genera.

The main goal of the Garden is to maintain a living collection of plants, with taxonomic information, Mayan names, and usages. The Botanical Garden is divided in 10 sections (Table 1) plus a section of propagation. Every section has a identification code and inside each section every species has a identification code.

Additional information about the species can be consulted in the catalogue, where you can find more detailed information (description, pictures and detailed usages) about every species on each section.

The mayor collection is the medicinal plants. These species are divided in 4 sections according to their uses: dermatological disorders, digestive disorders, respiratory diseases and different disorders. The collection has a total of 166 species that have been reported in the traditional medicine in the Yucatan Peninsula.

The Botanical also has a collection of plants with edible fruits. You can find native and introduced species. A total of 30 species can be observed in this section.

Other important collection is the section of native palms. A total of 23 native species have been reported in Yucatan Peninsula, in the garden you can see the 50 % of them.

In the Garden are planted 20 species reported as endemic to the Yucatan Peninsula.

Table 1. General information about each section of the Botanical Garden Hacienda Santa Rosa.

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