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Itabashi Botanical Garden
Itabashi Botanical Garden, formally the Itabashi Tropical Environment Botanical Garden (板橋区立熱帯環境植物館, Nettaikan), is a Tokyo municipal greenhouse in Takashimadaira recreating four Southeast Asian vegetation zones with an underground aquarium, opened in 1994 and heated by waste heat from an incineration plant.
Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires
The Jardín Botánico de Buenos Aires, also known as the Jardín Botánico Carlos Thays, is a botanical garden in Buenos Aires designed by Carlos Thays and inaugurated in 1898.
Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología (UNAM)
The Jardín Botánico del Instituto de Biología is the botanical garden of UNAM in Mexico City, founded in 1959, holding the country's largest living plant collection.
Jindai Botanical Gardens
Jindai Botanical Gardens (東京都神代植物公園, Jindai Shokubutsu Kōen), Tokyo's only metropolitan botanical garden, opened 1961 in Chōfu on a former street-tree nursery; about 4,800 species, 30 themed blocks, a 5,200-bush rose garden, and a Plant Diversity Center for endangered plants.
Kaduri Cactus Garden
The Kaduri Cactus Garden is a 2,000-square-meter cactus and succulent garden on the Weizmann Institute of Science campus in Rehovot, Israel, opened in 2019 and named for Hannah and Amnon Kaduri.
Kaen Makrut Botanical Garden
Kaen Makrut Botanical Garden (สวนพฤกษชาติแก่นมะกรูด), Ban Rai District, Uthai Thani, Thailand: highland garden at about 600 m, nicknamed coldest in central Siam, hosting an annual winter tulip and lily flower festival with the local Karen community.
Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden
Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden, Worcester, Western Cape: SANBI's second-oldest national botanical garden, founded 1921 at Whitehill near Matjiesfontein, moved to Worcester in 1945, renamed 2001; 154 ha garden for arid and succulent flora.
Kimen botanical garden
Kimen Botanical Garden (金門植物園), Kinmen Botanical Garden, is a 26-hectare garden at Taiwu Mountain, Jinhu, Kinmen, converted from the 1955 Taiwu military nursery, with 564 plant species and over 80 reused bunkers.
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is a garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town, founded in 1913 to conserve South Africa's indigenous flora.
Koishikawa Botanical Gardens
Koishikawa Botanical Gardens (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo's botanical research garden in Bunkyo, Tokyo; Japan's oldest, founded as a 1684 shogunal medicinal herb garden, holding Herbarium TI specimens and Ogasawara rare-plant conservation projects.
Kunming Botanical Garden
Kunming Botanical Garden (昆明植物园), founded 1938 under the Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, conserves Southwest Chinese plants ex situ, holding 602 national key protected species, Fuligong greenhouses, and a Lijiang alpine campus.
Kutaisi Kolkhuri Botanical Garden
Kutaisi Kolkhuri Botanical Garden (ქუთაისის ბოტანიკური ბაღი) is a botanical garden on the Rioni River in Kutaisi, Georgia, dating to 1840 and formally established 1969; third largest in Georgia with about 700 species, Red List Colchian relics, and a chapel inside a 400-year-old oak.
Kyoto Botanical Garden (京都府立植物園)
The Kyoto Botanical Garden (京都府立植物園) is a 24-hectare prefectural botanical garden in northern Kyoto, opened in 1924 and described as Japan's oldest public botanical garden, with about 500 cherry trees and a large conservatory.
Kyoto Medicinal Plant Garden
Kyoto Medicinal Plant Garden (京都薬用植物園), formally Takeda Garden for Medicinal Plant Conservation, Kyoto, is Takeda Pharmaceutical's 1933-founded garden in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, with about 3,000 species, a 500-variety camellia collection, and Japan's first company-run registered museum status (2024).
Lagos Botanical Gardens
Lagos Botanical Gardens is a loose label covering several sites in Lagos, Nigeria. The most prominent is the 60-hectare Murtala Muhammed Memorial Botanic Garden, founded in 1991.
Lal Bagh
Lal Bagh (Lalbagh Botanical Garden), founded 1760 by Hyder Ali and expanded by Tipu Sultan, is a 240-acre botanical garden in Bengaluru with India's largest tropical plant collection, the 1889 Glass House, and twice-yearly flower shows.
Lanzhou Botanical Garden
Lanzhou Botanical Garden (兰州植物园) is a free municipal botanical garden in Anning District, Lanzhou, Gansu, built from 1993 on the former Shijiawan Nursery, with about 530 mu, 380-plus plant species, a 46-mu lake, and the Dunhuang Garden.
Liangzhou Botanical Garden
Liangzhou Botanical Garden (凉州植物园), a garden-style park in Liangzhou District, Wuwei, Gansu, China; also called the Walnut Garden. 65-hectare AAA attraction of century-old walnut and pear trees, tea gardens, and the 128-meter Eye of the Heavenly Horse Ferris wheel.
Limbe Botanic Garden
Limbe Botanical Gardens (Victoria Botanic Garden), founded 1892 in Limbe, Cameroon, the first botanic garden in Central and West Africa; 48 ha coastal garden for ex-situ conservation, the 1994 Conservation through Cultivation Programme, herbarium SCA, and the Limbe Wildlife Centre.
Longzhong Botanical Garden
Longzhong Botanical Garden (隆中植物园), built 2000 in Xiangyang, Hubei, is a 1,500-mu forest ecological garden beside the 5A Gulongzhong scenic area, with 1,100+ plant species, 16 specialty gardens, and combined ticketing with Gulongzhong.
Lushan Botanical Garden
Lushan Botanical Garden (庐山植物园), founded 1934 by Hu Xiansu, Qin Renchang, and Chen Fenghuai at Hanpokou, Mt. Lushan, Jiangxi, is China's first scientific botanical garden, run by Jiangxi Province and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with over 10,000 living species and a national-botanical-garden candidacy.
Majorelle Garden
Majorelle Garden (Jardin Majorelle, حديقة ماجوريل) is a one-hectare botanical garden in Marrakech created by painter Jacques Majorelle from 1923, famed for Majorelle Blue, saved by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in 1980, and now run by the Fondation Jardin Majorelle with a Berber museum.
Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden
Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden (Маңғышлақ тәжірибелік-ботаникалық бағы) in Aktau, Kazakhstan, founded 1972; the only Western Kazakhstan scientific garden mobilizing plant gene pools in extra-arid desert conditions, 39 ha, 1,270 taxa.
Manyo Botanical Garden
Manyo Botanical Garden (萬葉植物園), at Kasuga Taisha in Nara, Japan, opened 1932 as the country's oldest Man'yō botanical garden, displaying about 300 plant species named in the Man'yōshū, founded by scholar Sasaki Nobutsuna.
Medicinal plants garden
Garden of Medicinal Plants (薬用植物園): a cultivated collection of drug-yielding plants for pharmacy teaching, research, and conservation. Examples include Kyoto Pharmaceutical University's garden (over 1,000 species), Takeda's Kyoto garden, and Keio's garden.
Montreal Botanical Garden
The Montreal Botanical Garden (Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a botanical garden in eastern Montreal, founded in 1931, with about 22,000 plant species in 30 thematic gardens.
Mudeung Florist
Mudeung Florist (무등식물원, Mudeungsingmulwon) is a garden and recreation area in Usan-dong, Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju, South Jeolla, South Korea, near Hwahwedanji, Gana Florist, and Gwangmyeong Florist.
Mulpani Botanical Garden
Mulpani Botanical Garden (मूलपानी वनस्पति उद्यान), a 5.5-hectare national botanical garden at Kapurkot, Salyan, Karnali Province, Nepal, established 2056 BS at 1,420 m, conserving 547 documented plant species including 62 rare and threatened ones.
Nanyao Yuan
南药园 (southern-drug gardens): medicinal-plant gardens of IMPLAD, chiefly the Xishuangbanna garden in Jinghong, Yunnan (founded 1959, ~20 ha, 1,200+ species) and the Xinglong garden in Wanning, Hainan (1960, 13+ ha), conserving tropical nan yao germplasm.
National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe
The National Botanic Garden of Zimbabwe is a 68-hectare botanical garden in Alexandra Park, about 4 km north of Harare, holding roughly 90 percent of Zimbabwe's woody flora.