Authors:
T. PH. OKONESHNIKOVA, head of laboratory,
R. V. MICHALISZCEV, lead engineer,
M. V. PALTUSOVA, engineer,
V. V. VALDAYSKIKH, candidate of biological sciences, director,
Botanical Garden of the Ural Federal University (51 Lenina Str., 620000, Ekaterinburg; tel.: +7 343 261-66-92; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
Abstract. 138 species of plants included in various Red Books are cultivated in the botanical garden. Along with solution of the problem of conservation of rare species in reservist, attention should be paid to the large resource potential of these plants. According to our data about 100 species of cultivated rare plants can be recommended for using in landscape design, 56 species have the medicinal value, food value is marked for 11 species, eight species use like fodder, five species can be used like industrial crop. 36 species Magnoliophyta from Red data book of Sverdlovsk region are cultivated in botanical garden. Three rare species, such as Lathyrus litvinovii Iljin, Linum boreale Juz. and Flox sibirica L., are critically endangered. Five species cultivating in botanical garden have decreasing number and 28 species are rare in Sverdlovsk region. As a result of many years of research in the Botanical Garden of the Ural Federal University the biological characteristics of rare medicinal plants of the local flora have been studied in detail for following species: Paeonia anomala L., Adonis vernalis L. and Digitalis grandiflora Mill. The prospects of cultivation and the further use of these species are shown. The most important way to save the species exterminated in nature is to cultivate them in a culture. The introduction of rare and in need of protection plants is carried out in the botanical garden of the Ural Federal University from the time of its foundation to the present time.
Keywords: rare plants, medicinal plants, introduction, perspectives of use, botanical garden.
