# Maurischer Garten

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Maurischer Garten in Stuttgart forms part of Wilhelma, where botanical collections and a zoo share one setting. Moorish architecture shapes the garden and its historic greenhouses. Karl Ludwig von Zanth transformed a planned bathhouse into a residence with greenhouses, drawing on Granada’s Alhambra.

Exotic plantings include succulents, tropical ferns, and tree ferns around a central water-lily pond. The pond dates from 1956 and holds Victoria amazonica among its water lilies. A magnolia grove spreads through the grounds, with spring blossoms from trees described as the largest north of the Alps.

Iron greenhouse structures present plants from the Sonoran Desert and tropical regions. The restored façade of the Moorish Landhaus now shelters tropical plants and birds after wartime destruction. The Schauhaus adds tropical ferns and cycads, whose relatives include ginkgo and conifers rather than true ferns.

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