Versailles-Chèvreloup — a living collection arranged by kinship and geography

Wide grassy clearings separate the trees at Chèvreloup. The paths offer a way to compare forms and foliage across closely related trees and across species from different continents.

Conifers and other trees stand in a grassy clearing under a blue sky.
A clearing among trees at the Versailles-Chèvreloup Arboretum. Photograph by Stefi123.Stefi123 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Bildquelle · Zuschnitt

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The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle manages Versailles-Chèvreloup as an arboretum for temperate and cold-climate trees. The former royal estate contains older plantings arranged by botanical relationship and later plantings organised by geographic origin.

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The museum began developing the botanical collection in the 1920s. Later planting created areas devoted to trees from Europe, Asia and North America. The conifer glades retain part of the early systematic planting. Walk between those glades and a geographic section to compare the two approaches.

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Use the arboretum’s own entrance at Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt. Consult the official visitor map to choose a route and check seasonal closing times before setting out across the estate.

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