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Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko

Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko (Ботанічний сад СДПУ ім. Макаренка), a 4.76 ha protected botanical garden in Sumy, Ukraine, founded 1937, holding about 1,000 plant taxa including rare Red Book species.

Botanical Garden of the Belarusian State Technological University

Батанічны сад БДТУ (Botanical Garden of the Belarusian State Technological University) is an 11-hectare garden in Dzerzhinsky district, Minsk Region, at Negorelsky forestry; its arboretum dates to 1954 and the garden to 1969.

Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra

Jardim Botânico da Universidade de Coimbra (JBUC): university botanical garden founded 1772 by the Marquis of Pombal, about 13 ha with formal terraces and wooded mata, part of the 2013 UNESCO World Heritage inscription.

Botanical Garden of the University of Malaga

The Botanical Garden of the University of Malaga (Jardín Botánico de la Universidad de Málaga) is a university botanical garden on the Teatinos campus, inaugurated in 2005 and holding over 1,000 plants.

Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna

Botanischer Garten der Universität Wien: university botanical garden in Vienna's 3rd district, founded 1754 by Maria Theresia as a medicinal garden; ca. 8 ha, free entry, plant-geographical groups since 1879, orchid and Pannonian collections.

Botanical garden of Thutmose III

The Botanical Garden of Thutmose III is a decorated sanctuary at the rear of the Akh-Menu festival hall at Karnak, Egypt, with reliefs of plants and animals from his Syrian campaigns.

Botanical Garden of Tirana

Botanical Garden of Tirana (Kopshti Botanik i Tiranës), Albania's only botanical garden, founded 1971 near the University of Tirana; about 13.5 ha, 800 taxa, Index Seminum exchange with 160 gardens.

Botanical Garden, Arboretum

Botanical garden, also botanic garden: institution holding documented living plant collections for research, conservation, display, education; an arboretum is its tree-focused form. BGCI lists 1,775 gardens in 148 countries; oldest surviving examples date to 1544.

Botanical gardens and arboreta of the Midwestern United States

The botanical gardens and arboreta of the Midwestern United States span ornamental gardens like the 385-acre Chicago Botanic Garden and large arboreta like the 1,700-acre Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.

Botanical gardens and arboretums of the Western United States

The botanical gardens and arboretums of the Western United States are the major public plant collections of the Pacific coast, mountain states, Southwest, and Hawaii.

Botanical gardens and conservation in the Global South

Botanical gardens in the Global South are living-plant institutions in tropical and developing countries that conserve plant diversity through collections, seed banks, herbaria, research, and education.

Botanical gardens in Central Europe

The botanical gardens of Central Europe, meaning Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia, are research and display plant collections, with the oldest university gardens founded between 1775 and 1818.

Botanical gardens in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus

Botanical gardens in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus are research institutions and public collections in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, the Baltic states, and the South Caucasus.

Botanical gardens in Europe

Botanical gardens in Europe cultivate documented living plant collections for science, education, and conservation; more than 900 exist today, beginning with university gardens in Renaissance Italy.

Botanical gardens in France

France holds 104 recorded botanical gardens, plus 10 in overseas territories, together holding about 300,000 living plant accessions; the oldest, at Montpellier, was founded in 1593 under Henri IV.

Botanical gardens in Kenya

Botanical gardens in Kenya conserve, display, and study the country's living flora across nine recorded gardens, from the Nairobi Botanic Garden to the Brackenhurst Botanic Garden near Limuru.

Botanical gardens in Romania

The botanical gardens of Romania are five major scientific and public collections of living plants, at Iași, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, and Jibou, four of them owned by universities and the oldest founded at Iași in 1856.

Botanical gardens in Seychelles

The National Botanical Garden at Mont Fleuri is a 6-hectare botanical garden on Mahé, Seychelles, founded in 1901 as a crop-introduction station and now a national monument with over 280 plant species.

Botanical gardens in the Balkans

Botanical gardens in the Balkans are scientific and public collections of living plants maintained in the Balkan peninsula, including Belgrade's Jevremovac garden, operating since 1874.

Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries

Botanical gardens in the Nordic countries are the scientific plant collections of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, linked since 2024 by the Nordic Network of Botanic Gardens.

Botanical gardens of the Pacific islands

The documented botanical gardens of the independent Pacific island states include the National Botanic Gardens in Lae, Papua New Guinea, and gardens in Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji.

Botanical gardens of West Asia and the Caucasus

The botanical gardens of West Asia and the Caucasus are scientific institutions that grow and conserve living plant collections across the Middle East, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Caucasus.

Botanical illustration of bryophytes

Botanical illustration of bryophytes is the tradition of drawing and painting mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, serving both art history and bryophyte taxonomy since 16th-century herbals.

Botanical museum herbarium

Botanical museum herbarium: the Herbarium Patavinum (code PAD) of the University of Padua, about 600,000 dried specimens, displayed since 2023 in the Botanical Museum beside the 1545 UNESCO Botanical Garden.

Botanical name

Botanical name: the formal scientific name of a plant, alga, or fungus under the ICN (formerly ICBN), a Linnaean binomial tied to a type specimen, governed by the Madrid Code of 2025.

Botanical Research Institute of Texas

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Fort Worth nonprofit founded 1987 around the SMU herbarium; now merged with Fort Worth Botanic Garden, holding 1.5 million specimens, a 120,000-volume library, and the Sumner Laboratory.

Botanical reserve "Arkadivs'kyi"

Botanical reserve "Arkadivs'kyi" (Ботанічний заказник «Аркадівський») is a 22.9-hectare locally significant botanical reserve near Arkadivka village, Kupiansk raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine, established 8 February 2007 by Kharkiv Oblast Council decision No. 172-V.

Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu

Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelu (BZA), Brno-Ponava: botanical garden and arboretum of Mendel University, founded 1938 by August Bayer, 11 ha, five sections, 4000 orchid taxa, Iris and Barvy podzimu exhibitions.

Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy

Botanická zahrada Univerzity Karlovy, the Botanical Garden of Charles University's Faculty of Science, founded 1775 at Smíchov, at Na Slupi 16, Prague 2 since 1898; 3.5 ha, free outdoor areas, paid tropical greenhouse.

Botanicus

Botanicus is a 2024 worker placement board game by Samuele Tabellini Ferrari and Vieri Masseini, published by Hans im Glück, for 2–4 players growing botanical gardens; it made the Kennerspiel des Jahres 2024 recommendation list and has the Das Gewächshaus expansion.