Jardin des Plantes, Toulouse

The Jardin des Plantes (7 hectares) is a public park and botanical garden located on Allée Jules-Guesde, Toulouse, France.

In 1794, thanks to naturalist Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse, the garden was relocated into part of the old enclosure of the Carmelite friars, where it remains.

This third site became both a large botanical garden and also a place where the poorest of the city could collect medicinal plants, growing to contain some 1,300 species, both local and acclimatised.

Although it was originally outside the city walls, it is now within a zone of very dense habitat mixing old construction and the more recent buildings.

It is bordered by the Medical school, the Natural history museum, the Daniel-Sorano theatre and the Saint-Exupère church.