Natural environment

The Park of the Royal Palace of Caserta and the English Garden preserve a natural heritage of great native and exotic botanic value. Numerous botanic species have been introduced between the end of the ‘700s and the beginning of the following century in the English Garden.

Some of these vegetable individuals have been studied and classified for the first time with the binomial system by illustrious Neapolitan naturalists and botanists such as Michele Tenore, who described and classified as thypus the Taxodium mucronatum present in the English Garden and still alive. To be noted, because they arrived for the first time in continental Europe right in the English Garden, are the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora), the eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sp) and camelia (Camellia japonica).

Native plants 

Moreover, in the Park and in the English Garden dwell native plants of great development and age, such as the holm oak (Quercus ilex), the Turkey oak (Quercus cerris), the local large-leaved linden (Tilia plathyphyllos), the stone pine (Pinus pinea) and other plants considered spectacular for the acquired shape like the Lebanon cedar tree (Cedrus libani), the yew (Taxus baccata), the magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora), the Osage orange (Maclura pomifera), the Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), the bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii), the sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens), the plane tree (Platanus acerifolia and Platanus orientalis).

Numerous are the palms (Phoenix canariensis, dactyliferous Phoenix, Trachycarpus fortunei, Brahea armata, Butia capitata, Washingtonia robusta), the Cycas (Cycas revoluta), the agaves (Agave sp), the ferns (Osmunda regalis, Pteris sp and more) and the collections of pot plants guarded in the greenhouse like begonias and geraniums.