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
editArmenia
editAustralia
editAustria
editBangladesh
editBarbados
editBelarus
editBelgium
editBelize
editBermuda
editBotswana
editBrazil
editBulgaria
editBurkina Faso
editCameroon
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The African Fan Palms in Limbe Botanical Gardens, Cameroon
Canada
editCayman Islands
editChile
editChina
editColombia
editCosta Rica
editCroatia
editCuba
editCzech Republic
editDenmark
editDominica
editDominican Republic
editEcuador
editEgypt
editEstonia
editFiji
editFinland
editFrance
editGeorgia
editGermany
editGhana
editGibraltar
editGuyana
editHaiti
editHonduras
editHungary
editIceland
editIndia
editIndonesia
editIran
editIreland
editIsrael
editItaly
editJamaica
editJapan
editKenya
editKuwait
editLatvia
editLithuania
editMalaysia
editMalta
editMauritius
editMyanmar
editMéxico
editMonaco
editKyrgyzstan
editMorocco
editMyanmar
editNetherlands
editNew Zealand
editNorth Korea
editNorway
editPakistan
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- 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
editParaguay
editPeru
editPhilippines
editPoland
editPortugal
editPuerto Rico
editRepublic of Moldova
editRomania
editRussia
editSaint Lucia
editSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
editSerbia
editSingapore
editSlovakia
editSlovenia
editSouth Korea
editSouth Africa
editSpain
editSri Lanka
editSultanate Of Oman
editSudan
editSweden
edit- Alnarpsparken, Alnarp[13][14]
- Bergius Botanic Garden, Stockholm[15][16]
- Fredriksdal Museums and Gardens, Helsingborg[17][18]
- Göteborg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg[19][20]
- The Knowledge Garden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Uppsala[21][22]
- The Linnaean Gardens, Uppsala[23][24][25]
- Lund Botanical Garden, Lund[26][27]
- Visby Botanical Garden, Visby[28]
Switzerland
editTahiti
editTaiwan
editTonga
editThailand
editTrinidad and Tobago
editTurkey
editUganda
editUkraine
editUnited Kingdom
editUnited States
editUzbekistan
editVenezuela
editVietnam
editZimbabwe
editSee also
editReferences
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.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Alnarp park | Externwebben". Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 2024-09-24. Archived from the original on 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Home". bergianska.se.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Fredriksdal - Museer och trädgårdar". 2024-09-24. Archived from the original on 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ homepage info in English
- ^ "Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences". slu.se.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Våra botaniska trädgårdar - Uppsala universitet". 2024-09-24. Archived from the original on 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ in English
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "Botaniska trädgården - Lunds universitet". www4.lu.se. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
- ^ "Start - Visbybotan.se". 2024-09-24. Archived from the original on 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "PACSOA - Jardin Botanique, Papeete. II". www.pacsoa.org.au.
- ^ "Jardín Botánico de Mérida". 2022-10-30. Archived from the original on 2022-10-30. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
- ^ "BGCI GardenSearch". gardensearch.bgci.org. Retrieved 2024-09-24.