Lithuanian flora department. Baltic Dune exhibition

This is a rapidly expanding department, demonstrating the uniqueness of Lithuanian nature and the diversity of species. Although there are many examples of flora from various regions of Lithuania in the whole territory of Klaipeda University Botanical Garden, the exhibition of our seaside dunes is unique. With some reservations, it can be stated that it exhibits only native plants. The plants that survive in the sand dunes are particularly viable, and sufficiently tolerant to salt water. It is hard to believe that, for example, the roots of the Gypsophila paniculata can be as thick as an arm. By visiting here, you will learn why some dune plants are wrapped in “fur coats,” what water reservoirs are created by Sedum acre or Cakile Baltica. It has long been believed that some of the plants exhibited here are aphrodisiacs. Not only that; take a close look at the Tragopogon heterospermus: It is an endemic – a plant found nowhere else in the world, only here. Although often seaside residents think they know the plants of our seaside dunes well, they will also find many unheard of interesting things in this exhibition. Not to mention those who come to the sea once a year.