scavenger hunt
Make a game of your visit to the Atlanta Botanical Garden with this scavenger
hunt.
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Find enough different colors in the garden to make a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. Look at flowers and at leaves to find the colors.
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Find a statue called “Frog Baby.” Can you see any real frogs in her pond?
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In the Japanese Garden, find the “three old friends” that are common to all
Japanese Gardens: water, stone and bamboo.
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In the Desert House, find the lithops. Lithops are difficult to see because they
look like rocks. Camouflaged as rocks, Lithops “hide” from animals that might
want to eat them.
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In the Tropical Conservatory, find the cacao tree. Chocolate is made from the
seeds of the cacao plant.
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In the Tropical High Elevation House, find moss growing on rocks or leaves.
The Tropical High Elevation House is like a cloud forest. The cool, misty air
creates perfect growing conditions for mosses.
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In the Orchid Display House, find a vanilla vine. Vanilla flavoring comes from
the seedpod of this orchid plant.
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Find at least two different species of carnivorous plants. Look for pitcher
plants, Venus flytraps, sundews and butterworts, among others. The Atlanta
Botanical Garden has the largest public collection of carnivorous plants in the
U.S.