Arboretum C.C.E.A.M.E

Canet-en-Roussillon, France, France

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The Arboretum C.C.E.A.M.E, officially known as the Arboretum du Mas Roussillon (or Arborètum de Mas Rosselló in Catalan), is a 11–14-hectare botanical arboretum located on the Mas Roussillon plateau at the outskirts of Canet-en-Roussillon, between Perpignan and the Salanque plain in the Pyrénées-Orientales department of southern France.

Created in 2001 with origins dating back to the 1980s, the arboretum is owned by the city of Canet-en-Roussillon and managed by the Centre Catalan d'Études pour l'Agronomie Méditerranéenne et l'Environnement (CCEAME), a 1901 law association dedicated to plant conservation and environmental protection.

The site features over 1,600 plant species representing Mediterranean climates from five continents, including more than 1,000 tree and shrub species on the plateau, a collection of 52 wine grape varieties (cépages), and an olive grove (oliveraie) that together form a National Collection of Languedoc-Roussillon, plus traditional orchards of old Roussillon fruit varieties preserved as a conservatory of abandoned or lost varieties.

The arboretum is freely open to the public without guided tours, with visiting hours from April 1 to September 30 (7:30 AM–9:00 PM) and October 1 to March 31 (8:30 AM–6:00 PM), and includes a bio-aquatic pool, xerophyte garden, and century-old trees dating from the Mas's original creation.