The Palm House features a great deal of useful tropical plants, which have been marked with yellow signs. Can you find the yellow signs by the black pepper growing close to the seating area, or by the cocoa tree in the middle of the room? Endangered species are marked with red signs.

A path in the Palm House leads you through the evolutionary history of plants and introduces you to living fossils. Come and see the world’s biggest seed, or find out what it means when someone says, ‘It’s a jungle out there!’

Completed in 1889, the Palm House is the oldest of the glasshouses. The front sides of the concrete plant tables circling the room are one of the first documented concrete structures in Finland.

In the 19th century, the two statue niches in the back wall housed wood-burning ovens to warm the glasshouses. Today the glasshouses are warmed by municipal heating.

Read more about the plants in this room:

• Ananas comosus

• Bambusa vulgaris

• Ceiba pentandra

• Monstera deliciosa

• Teobroma cacao

• Vanilla planifolia