Respecting and Protecting Diversity – Welcome to Rostock Botanical Garden

The Loki-Schmidt greenhouses need to stay permanently closed for safety reasons

Job Offer Technical Director

We are in need of a Technical Director for managing horticultural, technical, and human resources of the Botanical Garden to start as soon as possible. For detailed information please refer to this page.

Job Offer Gardener Cultivation of Ornamentals

We are in need of an experienced gardener with specialization in cultivation of ornamental plants or perennial nursery to start as soon as possible. For detailed information please refer to this page.

Job Offer Craftsperson

We are in need of a craftsperson with botanical knowledge for technical contribution in horticultural, structural and technical projects in the Botanical Garden to start as soon as possible. For detailed information please refer to this page.

• The Next Day Event

47th Mushroom and Fungus Exhibition Mecklenburg-West Pomerania

September 27–28, 10 am–6 pm: Germany's largest outdoor exhibition of living mushrooms and fungi with special events (in German). Due to the installation of the exhibition, the Botanical Garden needs to be closed on September 26. Thank you for your understanding.

• Special Note

Mushroom Consultation for Collectors

Every weekend and on October 3 and 31, 2–6 pm

Chimes and Relaxation

Exercises of Qigong and a sound bath in nature with sound bowls and gongs invite you to relax amidst nature and leave behind daily routines.

Biodanza: Dance The Stress Away

Do you want to stock up on energy in nature? Do you want to pass your life by dancing in happiness and ease? Do you want to connect to other darling persons in a cherishing way? Birgit Barkholz, facilitator and supervisor in Biodanza, offers Biodanza in the outdoor garden on Monday evenings.

Workshops and Coachings on Macrophotography

In the Botanical Garden, with Julia Boldt

The Amazon moonflower was in flower

Flower opening at 8-fold time lapse

Some days ago the particular cactus Strophocactus wittii (syn. Selenicereus wittii) was in flower. Unlike most of its relatives, it is not native to American deserts but to the widespread floodplain forests of the Amazon where it twines around the trunks of riparian trees. Its flattened leaf-like shoots attach to the bark with aerial roots. Occasionally the cactus gets inundated as it colonizes the trunks at floodwater levels. That's where the seeds float on the water as they contain air-filled chambers. The seeds develop after fertilization of the flowers by specialized night-active moths being able to penetrate the long flower funnel. Length and blooming habit of the white flowers indicate relationship with species being

known as queen of the night or moonlight cactus. The large, whitish, star-shaped flowers unfold during dusk for being open just the following night and closing forever during the upcoming dawn—be it with or without pollination. Due to its requirement of a tropical environment, the cactus can be encountered only scarcely in collections and some Botanical Gardens, and even more seldom with flowers being open as greenhouses would have to be open also during evening darkness. For more photographs and videos please refer to this page.