The Parc botanique de Cornouaille (4 hectares) is a botanical garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

 located in Kerlever, Combrit

Combrit

Combrit is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.Artists such as Lucien Simon and Alfred Marzin painted many pictures of the area.-Population:Inhabitants of Combrit are called in French Combritois....

, Finistère

Finistère

Finistère is a département of France, in the extreme west of Brittany.-History:The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth, and may be compared with Land's End on the opposite side of the English Channel...

, Brittany, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

The garden was established by Jean-Pierre Gueguen in 1981. Today it contains about 3500 plant varieties, with good collections of camelia

Camelia

-Awards:* Anugerah Industri Muzik 1998** Best New Artist**Best Vocal Performance in an Album for "Camelia"-Personal life:She was married to Mohd Ehsan Tun Ahmad Zaidi Adruce until their divorce in 1999. She then married a prominent local developer who is a Datuk in 2010. This makes her formal...

s (550 varieties), rhododendron

Rhododendron

Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...

s (400), magnolia

Magnolia

Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol....

s (85), azalea

Azalea

Azaleas are flowering shrubs comprising two of the eight subgenera of the genus Rhododendron, Pentanthera and Tsutsuji . Azaleas bloom in spring, their flowers often lasting several weeks...

s (80), and hortensias (60). Plantings of interest include Acer trautvetteri, Camelia caudata, Cleyera japonica, Corylus jacquemontii, Distylium racemosum, Embothrium coccineum

Embothrium coccineum

Chilean firetree, Chilean firebush, Notro in Spanish , is a small evergreen tree in the family Proteaceae. It grows in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina....

, Enkianthus perulatus, Magnolia rostrata

Magnolia rostrata

Magnolia rostrata, common name is Beaked magnolia, is a species of plant in the Magnoliaceae family.It is found in China and Myanmar-Burma. It is an IUCN Red List vulnerable species, threatened by habitat loss.-Description:...

, and Rhododendron campylocarpum, as well as an aquatic garden (7000 m²). The park also contains a mineral museum] displaying 1200 specimens from the Armorican Massif

Armorican Massif

The Armorican Massif is a geologic massif that covers a large area in the northwest of France, including Brittany, the western part of Normandy and the Pays de la Loire. Its name comes from the old Armorica, a Gaul area between the Loire and the Seine rivers...

and elsewhere.