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Kanapaha Botanical
Gardens
Kanapaha Botanical
Gardens is a 62 acre facility developed and operated by the North Florida Botanical
Society, a non-profit educational organization. Kanapaha Botanical Gardens is
comprised of 16 major collections visually accessible from a 1 ½ foot paved
walkway. These include the state's largest public display of bamboos and the
largest herb garden in the Southeast. The word Kanapaha is derived from the
Timucua Indian words for "palmetto leaf" and "house." Taken
together, they refer to the thatched dwellings that were home to the original
residents of a small Timucua village on the western shore of Lake Kanapaha.
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