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Sarasota Jungle Gardens

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Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Sarasota Jungle Gardens
Phone:
+1 941-355-5305

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Sarasota Jungle Gardens has been a tourist attraction in Sarasota, Florida in the United States since 1939. It offers ten acres, or four hectares, of botanical plantings along with bird and animal shows. One key attraction at the park is the opportunity to hand feed free-roaming flamingos. It is open to the public for a per-use ticket fee, as well as offering yearly membership passes for those wishing to visit frequently. The Gardens includes native species and exotic plants from around the world, such as the Australian nut tree, a bunya-bunya tree, the largest Norfolk Island pine in Florida, bulrush, strangler figs, royal palms, selloums, banana trees, Peruvian apple cactus, and staghorn ferns, as well as native red maples, oaks and bald cypress. In the 1920s, the site had become a swampy banana grove listed in city records as an impenetrable swamp. In the early 1930s, David Breed Lindsay, a local newspaperman, purchased the grove to create a botanical gardens. Beginning in 1936, admission fees were charged and in 1940, Jungle Gardens opened for business in essentially its current form. In the late 1940s, Jungle Gardens was sold to the philanthropic Allyn family, who continue to manage it.
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