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"Dimitrie Brandza" Botanic Garden
"Dimitrie Brandza" Botanic Garden (Grădina Botanică "Dimitrie Brandza"), University of Bucharest botanical garden founded 1860, moved to Cotroceni site in 1884; 18.2 ha, ~4,000 taxa, herbarium over 520,000 specimens.
A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden
A.V. Fomin Botanical Garden (Ботанічний сад ім. О. В. Фоміна), founded 1839 in Kyiv, is the 22.5-hectare university botanical garden of Taras Shevchenko National University, named for director O. V. Fomin, with major tropical, woody, and rare-plant collections.
Ajuda Botanical Garden
Jardim Botânico da Ajuda (Ajuda Botanical Garden), Lisbon; founded 1768 as Real Jardim Botânico da Ajuda, Portugal's first botanical garden and 15th in Europe, designed by Domingos Vandelli, now run by the Instituto Superior de Agronomia.
Akureyri Botanical Garden
Akureyri Botanical Garden (Lystigarður Akureyrar), Iceland's first public park (1912) with a botanic section added 1957; about 3.6 ha near the Arctic Circle in Akureyri, holding 430 native species and 6,600 alien taxa, free entry year round.
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Borza") is Babeș-Bolyai University's botanic garden in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: founded 1920, opened 1925, 14 hectares, about 10,000 taxa, Romania's largest herbarium (750,000 sheets), Japanese and Roman gardens, six-compartment greenhouses.
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Buia”), Craiova, Romania: university botanical garden founded 1952 by Prof. Alexandru Buia, about 12.8 ha, 6,000 taxa, 400,000-sheet herbarium, IABG member since 1974.
Alpingarten Hirzer - Giardino alpino Punta Cervina
Alpingarten Hirzer (Giardino alpino Punta Cervina) is a free alpine garden opened June 2017 at the Klammeben mountain station (2,000 m) of the Hirzer cable car in Schenna, South Tyrol, near the 2,781 m Hirzer summit.
Alter Botanischer Garten (Switzerland)
The Alter Botanischer Garten, or Old Botanical Garden, is a public park in central Zurich, Switzerland, laid out in 1837 and formerly the University of Zurich's botanical garden.
Aromatic Garden
Aromatic Garden (Aromagarten), Erlangen, Germany: 9,000 m2 university botanical garden of about 300 fragrant and aromatic plants, opened 1981, first garden named Aromagarten, free entry April-October.
Batumi Botanical Garden
Batumi Botanical Garden (Georgian: ბათუმის ბოტანიკური ბაღი) is a 108-hectare garden on the Black Sea coast 9 km north of Batumi, Georgia, founded in 1912 by the botanist Andrey Krasnov.
Benedykt Dybowski Dendrological Park
Дендропарк ім. Бенедикта Дибовського (Benedykt Dybowski Dendrological Park), 0.64-ha botanical nature monument at Kubanska 12, Lviv; arboretum founded 1910 by Benedykt Dybowski, protected 2010, ~113 tree and shrub species, children's zoo, free entry.
Bern Botanic Garden
Bern Botanic Garden (Botanischer Garten der Universität Bern, BOGA) is the University of Bern's botanical garden at Altenbergrain 21, Bern, founded 1789, at its current Aare-slope site since 1859-62, with over 6,000 plant species, seven greenhouses, a 500,000-specimen herbarium, and free daily admission.
Botanic Garden Meise
Botanic Garden Meise (Plantentuin Meise, Agentschap Plantentuin Meise) is a Flemish-managed botanical garden and research institution in Meise, Belgium, founded 1797 in Brussels, moved to its 92-hectare estate in 1938, with a 3-million-specimen herbarium and Belgium's only standard seed bank.
Botanic Garden of University of Valencia
Botanic Garden of the University of Valencia (Jardí Botànic de la Universitat de València), founded 1567 as a medicinal-plant garden, moved to the Huerto de Tramoyeres in 1802; about 4,500 species, 1862 iron greenhouse, BIC since 2006.
Botanical Garden (Orto Botanico), Padua
Orto Botanico di Padova, the University of Padua's botanical garden founded in 1545 as a medicinal "garden of simples"; the world's oldest university botanical garden on its original site, UNESCO-listed since 1997.
Botanical Garden and Parks of Crete
The Botanical Garden and Parks of Crete are living plant collections on the Greek island of Crete, centered on the Botanical Park & Gardens of Crete near Chania.
Botanical Garden Augsburg
Botanical Garden Augsburg (Botanischer Garten Augsburg): municipal botanical garden at Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10, founded 1936, about 3,000 plant species on roughly 10 hectares, 250,000 visitors yearly, Japanese garden from 1985.
Botanical garden Carsiana
Giardino Botanico Carsiana, a botanical garden in Sgonico near Trieste, Italy, founded 1964 by Gianfranco Gioitti; 5,000 m2 dolina site with about 600 Karst plant species, region-owned since 2016, managed by Rogos Cooperative.
Botanical Garden Fribourg
Botanical Garden Fribourg, the university botanical garden of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, was founded in 1937 and presents more than 5,000 plant species on 1.8 hectares.
Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg
Botanical Garden München-Nymphenburg (Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg), Munich's main botanical garden, opened 1914 near Nymphenburg Palace; 21.2 hectares, 16,240 species, 350,000 annual visitors, SNSB member.
Botanical Garden of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Botanical Garden of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ботанічний сад ЛНУ ім. І. Франка), founded 1852 by Hiacynth Łobarzewski; two Lviv sites (2 ha and 16.5 ha), ~5,000 taxa, tropical collection of national-heritage status.
Botanical Garden of Naples
The Botanical Garden of Naples (Orto Botanico di Napoli) is the University of Naples Federico II's botanical garden, founded in 1807 and covering almost 12 hectares.
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 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 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.