Hospitality Greenhouse

Greenhouse

Onglets

Description

This greenhouse, located right next to the Reception Centre and leading to the other exhibition greenhouses, gives visitors the basics of plant biology.

The Key to the Greenhouses

This permanent exhibition combines panels, displays and live plants to offer an introduction to botany and illustrate the different ways that plants obtain food, protect themselves and reproduce. Visitors are guided by interactive displays and information panels.

This huge subtropical greenhouse houses large specimens from the Monocotyledons, a botanical group of flowering plants including palms and bamboos. Insectivorous plants are also showcased.

Area

444 m²

Temperature

daytime 21°C, nighttime 21°C

Humidity

50%

For more information

Carnivorous plants

Dionaea

Map

Shade garden

Flowery Brook

Frédéric Back Tree Pavilion

Aquatic Garden

Reception Gardens

Peace Garden

The lilac collection

Chinese Garden

Youth Gardens

Alpine Garden

Japanese Garden

Leslie Hancock Garden

Shrub Garden

Toxic plants
Medicinal plants
Monastery Garden
Québec Corner

Garden of Innovations

Food Garden

Perennial Garden

Arboretum

Rose Garden

First Nations Garden

Explore

Monocotyledons

Nearly all of the plants in this greenhouse have something in common with corn: they are all monocotyledons. Find their leaves with parallel veins. Examine the base of the leaf where it sheathes the stem. Look at their floral parts in groups of three.

Apart from these features, monocotyledons do not include any real trees. The palm tree, for instance, is not a tree. And the seed contains just one small leaf, called a cotyledon, which contains reserves of nutrients.

Insectivorous plants

Most plants use their leaves to manufacture food, but once in a while, insectivorous plants also use them to catch bugs. Transformed into ingenious and efficient traps, these leaves allow the plant to get nutrients and thus live in areas where other plants could not because the soil is so poor.

Did you know?

Palms aren't trees

Palms are thought to have appeared about 85 million years ago and to have survived the cataclysms that wiped out the dinosaurs. They are tree-like herbaceous plants, not trees, because instead of a real trunk they have a stem called a stipe. After growing for a few years, the stipe no longer changes in diameter but only gets taller. They have thousands of uses, from food to construction, clothing and more. The stipe can also be burned as fuel.

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Hospitality Greenhouse

Hospitality Greenhouse

Onglets

The Key to the Greenhouses

Area

Temperature

Humidity

For more information

Monocotyledons

Insectivorous plants

Did you know?

Palms aren't trees