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Coloane Arboretum
Coloane Arboretum (路環樹木園, Arboreto de Coloane) is a tree garden on Estrada do Alto de Coloane, Macau, set up in 1986 with over 100 local and exotic tree species as a reforestation gene bank.
Colonial botanical garden networks
Colonial botanical garden networks were systems of botanic gardens European empires ran across Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania to move valuable crops like tea and rubber.
Commemorative Plant Garden
Commemorative Plant Garden (名人名树园), a 3.8-hectare garden established 1999 in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Mengla, Yunnan, holding memorial trees planted by Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Wen Jiabao, Prince Philip, and founder Cai Xitao, plus rare tropical plants.
Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden
Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden (大坪頂熱帶植物園) is a free, 24-hour urban tropical botanical garden in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Opened January 1, 2010 near Fongshan Reservoir, it holds 500+ species and 60,000+ plants across themed zones and four trails.
Daxing'anling cold-temperate zone botanical garden
Daxing'anling cold-temperate zone botanical garden (大兴安岭寒温带植物园), a 1,906-hectare AAAA scenic area 10 km south of Jiagedaqi, Heilongjiang; described as China's only cold-temperate flora and fauna gene bank, planting Mongolian Scots pine and white birch.
Dipterocarp Collection
Dipterocarp Collection: living ex situ collections of Dipterocarpaceae trees at FRIM (1929, 120 species), XTBG (1981, 34 species in 7 genera), Singapore's OCBC Arboretum, and Bogor, for research and conservation.
Distinctive Plant Collection (奇花异卉园, w126984824)
Distinctive Plant Collection (奇花异卉园, also 奇花异木园) is a 1999-built themed garden of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in Mengla, Yunnan, displaying about 250 to 300 tropical oddity plants such as dancing grass and miracle fruit.
Dracaena Collection
Dracaena Collection (龙血树园), the dragon blood tree garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China; established 2002 on 16 mu, holding 78 species and varieties including 31 Dracaena taxa conserved for Dragon's Blood medicine.
Ecological Trail Garden of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and South China Medicinal Plants Garden
Ecological Trail Garden of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants and South China Medicinal Plants Garden (香徑藥谷生態園區及南藥園), IAM-run medicinal plant gardens in Seac Pai Van Park, Coloane, Macao; about 30,000 m2, eight habitat zones, roughly 320 medicinal plant species, closed management with group booking.
El Hamma Experimental Garden
The El Hamma Experimental Garden (Jardin d'Essai du Hamma, حديقة التجارب الحامة) is a 32-hectare botanical garden at the Bay of Algiers, created by decree in 1832.
Energy Plant Collection
Energy Plant Collection (能源植物园) is a living collection at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, built in 2010 on about 85 mu, holding 360+ energy plant species in 52 families across six biomass-type zones including fuelwood, starch, fiber, oil, and hydrocarbon plants.
Environmental protection plant area
Environmental protection plant area (环保植物区) is a 0.85-hectare specialized garden in Beijing's National Botanical Garden displaying over 100 air-pollution-resistant and pollution-indicator plant species; a similar area exists at Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Ethnic Plant Collection
Ethnic Plant Collection (民族植物园) is the ethnobotanical garden of the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, in Menglun, Yunnan, with four zones of Dai, Hani, and Jinuo medicinal, food, religious, and artistic plants.
Fagaceae flora
Fagaceae flora (壳斗科植物区) is a one-hectare oak-focused living collection at the CAS Institute of Botany botanical garden, Beijing, with 1950s Three-North oak introductions, over 40 world Quercus species, and a pine-oak mixed forest landscape.
Fairy Lake Botanical Garden
Fairy Lake Botanical Garden (仙湖植物园, Xianhu), Shenzhen, China; a 587-hectare botanical garden in Luohu District affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2008, opened 1988, with 7,800+ cultivated species, cycad conservation, and Hongfa Temple.
Fig Collection
Fig Collection (榕树园) is a 1996 fig garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, Yunnan, China, holding about 150 Ficus species and serving as a base for fig–fig wasp research; distinct from RHS, USDA, and Fairchild fig collections.
Free State National Botanical Garden
Free State National Botanical Garden, Bloemfontein, South Africa: SANBI-managed 70-hectare conservation garden, proclaimed 1967, opened 1969, with about 400 plant species, Grassland and Nama Karoo vegetation, and a National Monument listing.
Fukuoka City Botanical Gardens
Fukuoka City Botanical Garden (福岡市植物園) is a municipal botanical garden in Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, Japan, opened in 1980 on the former Hirao water purification plant site; it forms the botanical half of Fukuoka Zoo and Botanical Garden, with a 2,800 m² greenhouse and a 230-variety rose garden.
Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden
Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden (福岡市動植物園), a municipal zoo (opened 1953) and botanical garden (1980) sharing a hillside in Minami Park, Chuo Ward, Fukuoka, Japan; 91 animal species, about 2,600 plant kinds, 600 yen adult admission.
Fushan Botanical Garden
Fushan Botanical Garden (福山植物园) is a botanical garden in northern Taiwan run by the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, opened in 1993, with more than 700 native plant species.
Gaoligong Mountain Botanical Garden
Gaoligong Mountain Botanical Garden (高黎贡山植物园), a botanical garden in Tengchong, Baoshan, Yunnan, on Huayan Road, about 169.2 mu, plus a 98.31-million-yuan rare-endemic plant garden project with 11 specialized gardens.
Garden of Exotic Plants
Garden of Exotic Plants (趣異植物園), a 550 m2 collection of 53 unusual plants built in 1994 within Macau's botanic garden on Coloane, featuring Kandelia obovata, Nepenthes mirabilis, and Drosera spathulata.
Govt. Ayurveda College Botanic Garden
Govt. Ayurveda College Botanic Garden is a medicinal plant garden at Poojappura in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, serving the Government Ayurveda College, one of Kerala's oldest Ayurveda teaching institutions.
Gwangmyeong Florist
Gwangmyeong Florist (광명식물원) is a garden in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Jeolla, at 35.1564° N, 126.81694° E; a namesake flower shop operates in Gwangmyeong, Gyeonggi.
Gwigeraehyang
귀거래향 식물원 (歸去來鄕, Gwigeraehyang), also called 귀거래향 수생식물원, is a private aquatic plant garden in Seongyeon-myeon, Seosan, South Chungcheong, South Korea, growing about 280 rare water lily varieties and lotuses on roughly 3,000-4,000 pyeong, run by grower Jang In-jae.
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden
Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden (海南热带野生动植物园) is an AAAA-rated zoo and botanical garden in Dongshan town, Haikou, Hainan, holding over 2,000 animals of 130+ species, with a driving safari section, pandas, and 158 yuan tickets.
Hanoi Botanical Gardens
Hanoi Botanical Gardens, or Bach Thao Park (Vườn Bách Thảo), a French-created 1890 botanical garden behind the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi; now about 10 hectares with rare and red-listed tree species.
Himalayan Department
Himalayan Department (ჰიმალაის განყოფილება) is the Himalayan Phytogeographic department of Batumi Botanical Garden, Georgia: 1.8 ha of Himalayan conifers, magnolias, and palms introduced from Darjeeling, not a government department.
Hirosaki Castle Botanical Garden
Hirosaki Castle Botanical Garden (弘前城植物園), in the Sannomaru of Hirosaki Park, Aomori, Japan. Opened 1988; 76,500 m², 23 zones, 1,500 species, 124,000 plants; open April to November; main venue of the Chrysanthemum and Autumn Foliage Festival. Distinct from the separate Hirosaki Botanical Gardens on the city outskirts.
Hyogo prefectural flower center
Hyogo Prefectural Flower Center (兵庫県立フラワーセンター) is a 46-hectare prefectural botanical garden in Kasai, Hyogo, Japan, opened 1976, with about 4,500 flower kinds and leading carnivorous plant and Streptocarpus National Collections.