The Grandes Serres du Jardin des Plantes are a set of greenhouses located within the Jardin des Plantes, in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. They are part of the National Museum of Natural History. Five greenhouses are part of the complex, four of which are open to the public. Built between 1836 and 2010, they are used to preserve and acclimatize the plants reported by the travels of naturalists and to introduce the public to exotic plant species. The greenhouses that can be visited are the greenhouse of humid tropical forests (formerly "Jardin d'hiver") the largest of all, built between 1936 and 1937, including a stream and species such as palm trees, banana trees and orchids; the greenhouse of deserts and arid places, built between 2005 and 2010, which shows the typical species of arid places in the United States, Mexico, the Andes, Southern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Australia; the Greenhouse of New Caledonia, built between 1833 and 1835, entirely dedicated to the flora of the islands of New Caledonia and finally the Greenhouse of the history of plants (former Australian greenhouse), built in the same years as the previous one, which presents the stages of development flora from the appearance of terrestrial plants, 430 million years ago, allowing us to compare some fossil plants with current species belonging to the same order.