A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only. Botanical gardens that specialize in trees are sometimes referred to as arboretums. They are occasionally associated with zoos.
The earliest botanical gardens were founded in the late Renaissance at the University of Pisa (1543) and the University of Padua (1545) in Italy, for the study and teaching of medical botany. Many universities today have botanical gardens for student teaching and academic research, e.g. the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, US, the Bonn University Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany, the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, England, the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, Netherlands, and the Kraus Preserve of Ohio Wesleyan University, US.
This page lists important botanical gardens throughout the world.
A useful database cataloging the world's botanic gardens can also be found at the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) website. With over 800 participating botanical gardens, BGCI forms the world's largest network for plant conservation and environmental education.[1]
Argentina[edit]
Armenia[edit]
Australia[edit]
Austria[edit]
Bangladesh[edit]
Barbados[edit]
Belarus[edit]
Belgium[edit]
Belize[edit]
Bermuda[edit]
Botswana[edit]
Brazil[edit]
Bulgaria[edit]
Burkina Faso[edit]
Cameroon[edit]
The African Fan Palms in Limbe Botanical Gardens, Cameroon
Canada[edit]
Cayman Islands[edit]
Chile[edit]
China[edit]
Colombia[edit]
Costa Rica[edit]
Croatia[edit]
Cuba[edit]
Czech Republic[edit]
Denmark[edit]
Dominica[edit]
Dominican Republic[edit]
Ecuador[edit]
Egypt[edit]
Estonia[edit]
Fiji[edit]
Finland[edit]
France[edit]
Georgia[edit]
Germany[edit]
Ghana[edit]
Gibraltar[edit]
Guyana[edit]
Haiti[edit]
Honduras[edit]
Hungary[edit]
Iceland[edit]
India[edit]
Indonesia[edit]
Iran[edit]
Ireland[edit]
Israel[edit]
Italy[edit]
Jamaica[edit]
Japan[edit]
Kenya[edit]
Kuwait[edit]
Latvia[edit]
Lithuania[edit]
Malaysia[edit]
Malta[edit]
Mauritius[edit]
Myanmar[edit]
México[edit]
Monaco[edit]
Kyrgyzstan[edit]
Morocco[edit]
Myanmar[edit]
Netherlands[edit]
New Zealand[edit]
North Korea[edit]
Norway[edit]
Pakistan[edit]
- Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore
- National Herbarium, Islamabad
- Rani Bagh Arboretum, Hyderabad
- Sukh Chayn Gardens, Lahore
- Herbarium and Botanical Garden, Shah Abdul Latif University
Palestine[edit]
- Palestine Museum of Natural History - Botanic Garden
Panama[edit]
Paraguay[edit]
Peru[edit]
Philippines[edit]
Poland[edit]
Portugal[edit]
Puerto Rico[edit]
Republic of Moldova[edit]
Romania[edit]
Russia[edit]
Saint Lucia[edit]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[edit]
Serbia[edit]
Singapore[edit]
Slovakia[edit]
Slovenia[edit]
South Korea[edit]
South Africa[edit]
Spain[edit]
Sri Lanka[edit]
Sultanate Of Oman[edit]
Sudan[edit]
Sweden[edit]
Switzerland[edit]
Tahiti[edit]
Taiwan[edit]
Tonga[edit]
Thailand[edit]
Trinidad and Tobago[edit]
Turkey[edit]
Uganda[edit]
Ukraine[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
United States[edit]
Uzbekistan[edit]
Venezuela[edit]
Vietnam[edit]
Zimbabwe[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Welcome to BGCI. Bgci.org. Retrieved on 2012-01-21.
- ^ Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus in Russian – page in English "under construction"
- ^ Botanic Gardens Conservation International, National Botanical Garden, retrieved 2009-09-19
- ^ Limbe Botanic Garden
- ^ "Savuru Botanical Gardes FIJI". Retrieved 2021-02-18.
- ^ "The Gardens of Georgetown". May 19, 2012.
- ^ "Site Officiel du Jardin Botanique des Cayes- Haiti". jardin-botanique.
- ^ "For the Emir of Kuwait EdenParks built a botanic glasshouse for guests, botanical experts and state visits at the Bayan Palace in Kuwait". Edenparks.
- ^ Kuwait Botanic Garden
- ^ Argotti Botanic Gardens & Resource Centre University of Malta
- ^ Korea Central Botanical Garden
- ^ "Oman Botanic Garden, Muscat A celebration of Oman's rich botanic diversity". www.arup.com.
- ^ "PACSOA - Jardin Botanique, Papeete. II". www.pacsoa.org.au.