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The arboretum contains one of the largest collection of non-indigenous champion trees in the region. On the grounds is a jungle-like arboretum featuring 16 Champion trees, many the largest in the state or the country including a massive Enterlobium cyclocarpum (Ear Tree). The gardens are home to nationally noted collections of heliconias, gingers, calatheas, bromeliads, flowering trees, palms, crotons, aroids, succulents, orchids, ferns and cycads as well as a mango orchard, and pollinator's garden. A narrated tram ride leads through the site's tropical rainforest, native hammock, wetland areas and exotic flora.

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The grounds contain more than 3,000 species of tropical and subtropical plants, including 200-year-old Southern live oaks, and 300 plus species of palms. The Wray Home is now a museum illustrating a country home in the early 1930s. Wray Memorial Foundation was established to preserve the property and its gardens for future generations. and Jane Wray, who in 1927 built a weekend home, citrus grove and laboratory on what was then the edge of the Everglades, where they started a botanical collection of rare and unusual tropicals and subtropical exotics, fruit trees and specimens collected from around the world.

The Gardens, a tropical oasis in South Florida, were originally the property of Floyd L.

3750 South Flamingo Road, Davie, Broward County, Florida, United StatesĢ6☀4′25″N 80☁8′46″W / 26.073728°N 80.312859°W / 26.073728 -80.312859įlamingo Gardens is a 60-acre (24 ha), is a botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary, located just west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and north of Miami at 3750 South Flamingo Road, Davie, Florida, United States.