As a subunit of Babeş-Bolyai University, A. Borza Botanic Garden provides all logistical and scientific support in line with the university’s educational offer for systematic botany, floristics, vegetation, and plants, fungi, and algae diversity. These activities are pursued in our Botanic Institute or in the other departments of the botanic Read more…
What is a scientific herbarium? A herbarium is a collection of plants that are systematically stored, catalogued, and arranged for scientific study. Such a collection is assembled over time by a process involving pressing and drying plants in paper sheets so that most of the living plant features remain visible Read more…
Research has always been at the heart of A. Borza Botanic Garden activities. Thus, ever since its beginnings, this institution became one of the most important national and regional centres for botanic studies in all their complexity. The acquired expertise turned the botanic garden into a pioneer of biodiversity conservation Read more…
It was designed by Alexandru Borza in the intermediary traditional gyō nō niwa style. The central point of the Japanese garden is the teahouse built on a small lake and covered by a beautiful wisteria (Wisteria chinensis). There are many specific architectural features: two small waterfalls, a stone bridge leading Read more…
Located in the Systematic Sector, it was used in the past as a reservoir for watering the botanic garden. Today it serves as an important observation point for visitors who can admire the diversity of tree species in this part of the botanic garden, as well as the crown structure Read more…
The botanic garden has an important collection of statues created by various sculptors, in various times of its development. The statue of professor Alexandru Borza was created in 1977 by the sculptor Virgil Fulicea (1907-1979). One of the most important scientific works in Romanian botany is linked to the name Read more…