Gruson-Gewächshäuser, Botanical garden and heritage monument in Magdeburg, Germany.

The Gruson-Gewächshäuser are a municipal botanical garden in ten connected exhibition houses covering about 4,000 m² on Schönebecker Straße in Magdeburg, next to the Klosterbergegarten. The 16-metre palm house holds some 50 palm species, giant bamboo and a treetop walkway; further houses show dry subtropics, dry tropics, mountain rainforest, epiphytes, tropical crops, a Victoria house, a laurel forest and ferns over 130 years old.

Industrialist and plant collector Hermann Gruson left the city of Magdeburg his succulent collection and 100,000 Marks on his death in 1895; the greenhouses opened to the public in 1896, and a Victoria house followed in 1910. World War II broke virtually all the glass and destroyed the palm house, which was rebuilt in 1986. The cactus and tropical houses had already reopened by summer 1945.

The garden bears the name of Hermann Gruson, the industrialist and plant collector who left his succulent collection and 100,000 Marks to Magdeburg on his death in 1895. The golden ball cactus Echinocactus grusonii was named in his honour and stands in the cactus house. The greenhouses belong to the Gartenträume Sachsen-Anhalt network, together with the adjoining Klosterbergegarten.

The greenhouses stand at Schönebecker Strasse 129 b, next to the Klosterbergegarten, and are open daily except Monday. The tour starts in the 16-metre palm house and continues left through the cactus house; the courtyard can be reached from the palm house or the dry tropics. Expect high heat and humidity in the tropical halls.

One of the halls contains a golden-colored cactus that is more than 100 years old and remains one of the oldest specimens in the collection. Another area with tall palms and giant bamboo species creates the sensation of walking through an actual tropical forest.