The Corpus Christi Botanical Gardens and Nature Center (180 acres) are nonprofit botanical gardens and a nature center located at 8545 South Staples, Corpus Christi, Texas. Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of Plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U They are open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.
The gardens can be traced to 1987 when a first cottage garden (1 acre) and nature trail opened in Corpus Christi. Today's gardens, however, are on a different site opened in 1996. The gardens have been actively developed since that time.
Major exhibits now include an arid garden; Exhibit House with bromeliads, cycads, cacti, and succulents; hibiscus garden; hummingbird garden; landscape demo beds; orchid house with more than 3000 orchids; a major collection of more than 100 plumeria varieties; contemporary rose garden with a large pavilion; sensory garden; and water garden. Cycads are a group of Seed plants characterized by a large crown of compound leaves and a stout trunk. A cactus (plural cacti) is any member of the Spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants, are Water -retaining Plants adapted to Arid climate or Soil conditions Hibiscus, or rosemallow, is a large genus of about 200&ndash220 species of Flowering plants in the family Malvaceae (the mallow family
The site also contains a mesquite nature trail through 30 acres of brush. Mesquite (from Nahuatl mizquitl) is a leguminous plant of the Prosopis genus found in Northern Mexico and the United It features some 35 species of woody trees and shrubs, herbs, grasses, and cacti, as well as deer, javelina, and coyotes. A deer is a Ruminant Mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. Peccaries (also known as javelinas, by the Portuguese name javali and Spanish jabalí or pecarí) are medium-sized The coyote (kaɪˈoʊti ˈkaɪoʊt ( Canis latrans) also known as the prairie wolf, is a Mammal of the order Carnivora