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Aburi Botanical Gardens
Aburi Botanical Gardens is a 64-hectare botanical garden at Aburi, Ghana, opened in 1890 on the Akuapem Ridge, where colonial crop trials tested cocoa, coffee, and rubber.
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, formerly Company Bagan and Royal Botanic Garden Calcutta, is a 273-acre Botanical Survey of India garden in Shibpur, Howrah, founded in 1787 by Robert Kyd, home of the Great Banyan Tree.
Adelaide Botanic Garden
The Adelaide Botanic Garden is a 51-hectare public botanic garden in Adelaide, South Australia, opened in 1857 and known for its 1877 Palm House and the State Herbarium.
Altay botanical garden
Altay Botanical Garden (Алтайский ботанический сад, Алтай ботаникалық бағы), founded 7 January 1935 in Ridder, Kazakhstan; a research institution for plant introduction holding 1,632 species across 37 ha of expositions, a protected natural territory.
Anima Heller Garden
Anima Heller Garden, also called the André Heller Garden, is a botanical and sculpture garden in the Ourika Valley near Marrakech, created by Austrian artist André Heller.
Aquatic Botanical Garden
Aquatic Botanical Garden (수생식물학습원), a Korean aquatic plant garden in Daecheong Lake Garden, Okcheon, Chungcheongbuk-do, showing native and tropical water plants; reservations required, closed Sundays and January-February.
Aromatic Plant Collection
Aromatic Plant Collection (百香园, Baixiang Yuan) is a spice-plant garden at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in Mengla County, Yunnan; 86 mu, over 104 spice species, China's largest living spice-plant gene bank.
Aswan Botanical Garden
Aswan Botanical Garden, on El Nabatat (Kitchener's) Island in the Nile at Aswan, Egypt, is a botanical garden and research station begun under Lord Kitchener in the 1890s, with seven sectors of tropical plants, a herbarium, seed bank, and museum.
Australian Department
The Australian Department is one of nine phytogeographic sections of the Batumi Botanical Garden in Georgia, growing Australian plants like eucalypts, acacias, and bottle trees.
Australian National Botanic Gardens
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is a Commonwealth reserve on Black Mountain in Canberra with more than 4,300 Australian native plant species, a herbarium, and a seed bank.
Bamin Garden
Bamin Garden (八闽园) is a 160-mu botanical and cultural garden in the northeast of Xiamen University's Xiang'an campus, Fujian. Opened 5 April 2021, it holds about 1,500 plant species and ten plazas representing Fujian's nine cities and one area.
Ban Phe Botanic Garden Urban Forest
Ban Phe Botanic Garden Urban Forest (สวนพฤกษศาสตร์บ้านเพ), Rayong, Thailand: a 625-rai coastal botanic garden and beach forest, founded 1974 as Phe Arboretum, renamed 2013, free entry, DNP-managed.
Beijing Botanical Garden
Beijing Botanical Garden (北京市植物园), founded 1956 in Haidian, Beijing; since 2022 the North Garden of the China National Botanical Garden, with 15,000 plant species, 14 themed gardens, and a large conservatory.
Bibi Gol Botanical Garden
Bibi Gol Botanical Garden (باغ گیاه شناسی بی بی گل) is a botanical garden near Torbat-e Heydarieh, Razavi Khorasan, Iran, beside the Bibi Hasaniyeh tomb, with a nearby Bibi Gol Garden and greenhouse garden center.
Botanical Garden FEBRAS
Botanical Garden FEBRAS (Ботанический сад-институт ДВО РАН) is a Vladivostok research institute and botanic garden founded 24 February 1949, with 169.5 ha including 155 ha of protected forest, over 5,000 plant taxa, Amur and Sakhalin branches, and the journal Botanica Pacifica.
Botanical Garden named after Fyodor Rusanov
Tashkent Botanical Garden named after academician F.N. Rusanov (Akademik F.N. Rusanov nomidagi Toshkent botanika bogʻi), a 65-hectare research botanical garden of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences' Institute of Botany in Yunusabad, Tashkent, founded 1950, holding over 4,500 introduced plant taxa.
Botanical Garden of Hokkaido University
Botanical Garden of Hokkaido University (北海道大学植物園), a 13.3-hectare botanical garden in central Sapporo founded in 1886, Japan's first modern botanical garden, holding about 4,000 plant species, historic museum buildings, and Ainu collections.
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 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 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 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.
Brindavan Gardens
Brindavan Gardens (ಬೃಂದಾವನ ಉದ್ಯಾನವನ), also called Vrindavan Garden Mysore, is a terraced Mughal-style garden below the KRS Dam in Mandya, Karnataka, built 1927–1932 under Dewan Mirza Ismail and famous for its musical fountain.
Butchart Gardens
The Butchart Gardens, a 55-acre display garden in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, created from 1904 by Jennie Butchart in an exhausted limestone quarry; National Historic Site of Canada since 2004, family run, over one million visitors yearly.
Cartagena Botanical Garden "Guillermo Piñeres"
Cartagena Botanical Garden "Guillermo Piñeres" (Jardín Botánico de Cartagena "Guillermo Piñeres"), a 1978-founded botanical garden and research institution in Turbaco, Bolívar, Colombia, conserving tropical dry forest flora across nine hectares with the Caribbean region's leading herbarium.
Central Botanical Garden
Central Botanical Garden (조선중앙식물원), also called Pyongyang Central Botanical Garden, is North Korea's largest botanical garden, founded April 30, 1959 at Mt. Taesong, Pyongyang, with thousands of plant species, gift-plant greenhouses, and branch gardens at Samjiyon, Wonsan, and Ongjin.
Cheollipo Arboretum
Cheollipo Arboretum (천리포수목원) is Korea's first private arboretum, on the Taean peninsula, founded by Carl Ferris Miller (Min Byung-gal); 589,429 square meters, 16,895 plant taxa, records named National Registered Cultural Heritage in 2026.
Chinese Herbal Garden
A Chinese herbal garden (中草药园) is a garden growing Chinese medicinal plants for conservation, education, and research, ranging from university nurseries to small school plots.
Chonnam National University Arboretum
Chonnam National University Arboretum, a university arboretum in Gwangju, South Korea, run by the Department of Forestry for teaching and research; site of pest surveys (fall webworm, spotted lanternfly) and the first Korean report of Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae canker on evergreen oak.
College of Pharmacy Herb Farm
College of pharmacy herb farms, or medicinal herb gardens (약초원, 薬草園), are university-maintained medicinal plant collections for pharmacy teaching and research; examples include Ewha (est. 1956, 270 species) and Kyushu University's regulated-plant garden.