Arboretum de la Universidad Austral de Chile, Botanical garden at Austral University of Chile, Valdivia Province, Chile

The Arboretum of the Universidad Austral de Chile covers about 62 hectares on the Teja Norte estate on Isla Teja, near the university's Isla Teja campus. It was laid out in 1971 by Professor Dr. Federico Schlegel and holds more than 5,000 tree species, Chilean and foreign, including a 3-hectare poplar collection with a sample of 70 clones.

This collection began in the 1970s as a forest restoration project on a large piece of land. Over time it grew into a place that now attracts researchers and students interested in plants and ecology.

The space functions as a place where visitors directly encounter trees from around the world and see how local plant knowledge is preserved and shared. This hands-on experience with living plants connects people to nature in a way that reading alone cannot achieve.

The grounds are easy to reach on foot and laid-out paths make it comfortable to walk between different plant areas. It helps to allow enough time to explore the various zones at your own pace.

One special area is dedicated to poplar trees, where carefully selected varieties grow together and are rarely seen grouped this way. This focused collection shows how researchers work with different plant types.