“If you come across lotus flowers, papyrus plants and carnivorous sundews side by side with Madagascar palms, sanguisorba orobica, sugar canes and candelabra cacti, you are probably at the Bergamo Botanic Garden. Which is not the plant version of the Tower of Babel, but a small stronghold of the Vegetable Kingdom that houses representatives of all the main categories conventionally used by botanists to subdivide the over 250,000 plant species on our planet. ”
