MURMANSK, January 16Visitors to the unique greenhouse of the Polar Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute in Kirovsk, Murmansk Region, which is the northernmost in Russia, secretly picked all the fruits from a lemon that was included in the garden’s collection in 1952, according to the PABSI page on VKontakte.
It is reported that 1.3 thousand people visited the Botanical Garden during the New Year holidays. “A free visit to the greenhouse without a tour brought joy to many people, but some plants experienced great stress and even pain. Unknown, possibly very hungry guests tore off almost all the fruits from the lemon without waiting for them to ripen,” the garden said.
Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden-Institute named after. ON THE. Avrorina is a unique institution in the Murmansk region beyond the Arctic Circle. Here, several generations of scientists and gardeners have collected the richest collections of plants representing the diverse flora of the globe. Representatives of the tropics and subtropics grow in the greenhouse, 788 specimens and 616 species exotic for the northern climate are cultivated.
The garden staff explained that two varieties of this plant grow in the polar collection – Panderosa and Pavlovsky. It was the Pavlovsk lemon that suffered from the unceremonious guests.
This variety is named after the city of Pavlov-on-Oka, where the merchant Karachistov, “the father of Russian lemons,” lived. He gave several lemon seedlings brought from Turkey to his relative Elagin, and he took up indoor lemon growing, growing them not in a greenhouse, but right at home. After a couple of decades, almost every house had its own lemon.
“The plant came to our collection in 1952. It blooms and bears fruit every year. However, not many (fruits – ed.) survive to ripeness,” complain the greenhouse employees.
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