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title: "Botanical Garden VIII.5.38 - Pompeii Online"
description: "An educational garden illustrating the plants cultivated and used in ancient Pompeii, based on archaeobotanical evidence."
url: "https://www.pompeionline.net/en/buildings-and-places/regio-viii/botanical-garden-viii-5-38"
date: "2026-09-16T12:43:30+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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#  Botanical Garden VIII.5.38

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The **Botanical Garden of Pompeii** is an educational space devoted to the vegetation documented in the ancient Vesuvian area.

The study of plant remains preserved by the eruption—including seeds, carbonised fruit, pollen and the traces left by roots in the soil—has enabled archaeobotanists to reconstruct many of the species cultivated or used by Pompeii’s inhabitants.

The garden illustrates how vegetation formed an integral part of the ancient city. Fruit trees and plants grown for food, medicine or decoration were found in domestic gardens, vegetable plots and productive areas, making a significant contribution to the economy and to daily life.

The space therefore serves a different purpose from the surrounding houses and monuments: it does not reconstruct a single ancient building, but uses the findings of archaeobotanical research to show visitors an aspect of Pompeii in AD 79 that masonry remains alone could not convey.

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