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Cylburn Arboretum Association

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Cylburn Arboretum is a 207 acre urban park managed cooperatively by the Baltimore City Dept. of Recreation and Parks and the Cylburn Arboretum Association. Trails wind through the park, where rare trees, native plants and wildflowers may be studied.

Website: http://www.cylburnassociation.org
Location: 4915 Greenspring Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21209
Members: 1
Latest Activity: Oct 14

Trees, Gardens, Birds, Wildflowers and Nature Museum

Tree Collections
Collections of Japanese maples, hollies, conifers, Maryland oaks (begun on Arbor Day 1983) beeches, tree peonies, maples and magnolias stand on spacious lawns and many gardens surround the Victorian Mansion.

Cylburn Nature Museum
The Nature Museum is located in the Carriage House on the Cylburn grounds and combines exhibits from the Bird Museum and the Nature Museum into an accessible hands-on learning environment. The Nature Museum contains a collection of Maryland birds, most of which are mounted in habitat arrangements, and collections of bird eggs from the late 1800’s, butterflies and moths, rocks and minerals, fossils and seashells, games, and habitat dioramas. Visitors are invited and encouraged to touch many of the items.

Maryland Wildflowers
The Cylburn Mansion houses a collection of water color paintings of Maryland wildflowers. The paintings, located on the first floor of the Mansion in Room D, has been a project of the Conservation Committee of the Gibson Island Garden Club. Over 100 plants are depicted – from Jack-in-the Pulpit and yellow Trout lily to round-leaved Hepatica. The names of the artists are found on a plaque in Room D.