List of botanical gardens

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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, USA, 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, USA.

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

Armenia

Australia

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Austria

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belgium

Belize

Bermuda

Belarus

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Cameroon

Canada

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Chile

China

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cuba

Czech Republic

Denmark

Ecuador

Egypt

see Botanical gardens in Egypt

official

Cairo

Alexandria

  • Gardens of Antoniades
  • Faculty of Science botanical garden

Aswan

unofficial

Cairo
  • Zoo garden
  • Al-Kanater Alkhayreyya (The Barrage garden)
  • Al-Saff garden (private garden)

Estonia

Fiji

Finland

Web portal of the Botanic Gardens of Finland

France

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Georgia

Germany

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Ghana

Gibraltar

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

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-Füvészkert- Budapest

-Fővárosi Állat- és Növénykert, Budapest

-Soroksári Botanikus Kert

-Debreceni Egyetem Tudományegyetemi Karok Botanikus Kert

Iceland

India

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Indonesia

All 4 above Botanical Gardens are under Indonesian Institute of Science, but at the end of June 2011, Indonesia totally have 21 Botanical Gardens which the rest are under Regency/City administrations. Indonesia plans to have totally 45 Botanical Gardens.[10][11]

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

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Jamaica

Japan

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Latvia

Lithuania

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Kaunas Botanical Garden

Malaysia

Malta

Mauritius

México

Monaco

Morocco

Myanmar

Netherlands

New Zealand

North Korea

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Norway

Pakistan

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Panama

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Republic of Moldova

Romania

Russia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Serbia

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Korea

South Africa

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Spain

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Tahiti

Taiwan

Tonga

Thailand

Trinidad and Tobago

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom

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United States

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Uzbekistan

Venezuela

Vietnam

Zimbabwe

See also

References

  1. Welcome to BGCI. Bgci.org. Retrieved on 2012-01-21.
  2. (Dutch) Ghent University Botanic Garden. Plantentuin.ugent.be (2009-09-09). Retrieved on 2012-01-21.
  3. Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus in Russian – page in English "under construction"
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  10. KRB Ultah: Indonesia Perlu 45 Kebon Raya | Poskotanews.com. Poskota.co.id. Retrieved on 2012-01-21.
  11. http://krbogor.lipi.go.id/id/beranda
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  14. "Gampaha Botanic Gardens, Heneratgoda", BGCI. Bgci.org (2006-04-11). Retrieved on 2012-01-21.
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  16. Tashkent Botanical Garden

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