The arboretum was created in 1804 by Aglaia Adanson, daughter of naturalist Michel Adanson, as an English-style park on surrounding a mansion inherited her father.
In 1763 Michel Adanson had devised the genus name Terana for similar crust fungi and in 1891 Otto Kuntze included coerulea in that genus to create the modern name.
The genus was first described scientifically by the French naturalist Michel Adanson in his 1763 Familles des Plantes.
Michel Foucault | Jean Michel Jarre | Michel Gondry | Jean-Michel Basquiat | Michel Legrand | Michel de Montaigne | Michel Houellebecq | Michel Platini | Michel Plasson | Michel Ney | Mont Saint-Michel | Michel Tournier | Michel Portal | Michel Rocard | Michel Fokine | Michel Deville | Michel Butor | Michel Berger | Jean-Michel Dubernard | Michel Rolland | Michel Polnareff | Michel Maffesoli | Michel Drucker | Michel Roux | Michel Piccoli | Michel Boyibanda | Michel Bastarache | Michel | Robert H. Michel | Michel Vieuchange |
Early scientific bird collections included those belonging to Pallas and Naumann in Germany, Latham and Tunstall in England and Adanson in France.