Editing Narsarsuaq (section)

== Greenlandic Arboretum ==
{{anchor|Arboretum Groenlandicum}}
[[File:Narsarsuaq-arboretum-groenlandicum.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Arboretum Groenlandicum]]
[[File:Narsarsuaq-arboretum-groenlandicum-spruce.jpg|thumb|100px|right|Trees of Greenland]]
On the lower slopes of the Mellemlandet ridge, close to Narsarsuaq Airport, there is a unique 'botanical garden of the Arctic', called the '''Greenlandic Arboretum'''.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://ign.ku.dk/english/about/arboreta/arboretum-greenland/history/
| title = History of the Greenlandic Arboretum
| date = 18 October 2013
| publisher = Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, [[University of Copenhagen]]
| access-date = 31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>Location {{coord|61|9|29|N|45|25|10|W}}</ref> The goal is to establish a live collection of trees and bushes native to both the arctic and the alpine tree-lines of the entire Northern Hemisphere.

Founded in 1988, it encompasses 15 hectares and it shelters 110 plant species, mostly varieties of boreal [[taiga]] trees, such as [[Larix sibirica|Siberian larch]], [[lodgepole pine]], [[Picea glauca|white spruce]], [[Picea sitchensis|Sitka spruce]],<ref>{{cite web| url = http://ign.ku.dk/english/about/arboreta/arboretum-greenland/
| title = The Greenlandic Arboretum in Narsarsuaq
| date = 2 August 2013
| publisher = Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, [[University of Copenhagen]]
| access-date = 31 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://ign.ku.dk/english/about/arboreta/arboretum-greenland/forest-plantations/
| title = The Forest Plantations in The Greenlandic Arboretum
| date = 18 October 2013
| publisher = Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, [[University of Copenhagen]]
| access-date = 31 August 2016}}</ref> and various bushes. Many individual trees are tagged or otherwise marked. The plantation currently has more than 50,000 trees of various provenances.

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