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The Pamplemousses botanical
garden renamed now as Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam is dense in
vegetation. The property here is now located the botanical
garden was bought by the French governor of Mauritius, known at
this period as Ile de France. The dense vegetation includes
dozen of palm varieties, there also ponds of giant water lilies
known as Victoria amazonica named after the Queen Victoria. The
botanical is almost three hundred years old and around twenty
five hectares of land. There are other botanical gardens on the
island but not as beautiful as the pamplemousses botanical
gardens. Each of the avenues of the garden has a name, when an
important people visits the island as the queen from England
they plant their own tree in the garden. |
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