List of botanical gardens

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Orto botanico di Pisa at the University of Pisa is one of the earliest botanical gardens.

A botanical garden is a place where plants, especially ferns, conifers and flowering plants, are grown and displayed for the purposes of research, conservation, and education. This distinguishes them from parks and pleasure gardens where plants, usually with showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only. Botanical gardens that specialize in trees are sometimes referred to as arboretums. They are occasionally associated with zoos.

The earliest botanical gardens were founded in the late Renaissance at the University of Pisa (1543) and the University of Padua (1545) in Italy, for the study and teaching of medical botany. Many universities today have botanical gardens for student teaching and academic research, e.g. the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University, US, the Bonn University Botanic Garden, Bonn, Germany, the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, England, the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, Netherlands, and the Kraus Preserve of Ohio Wesleyan University, US.

This page lists important botanical gardens throughout the world. A useful database cataloging the world's botanic gardens can also be found at the Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) website. With over 800 participating botanical gardens, BGCI forms the world's largest network for plant conservation and environmental education.<ref>Welcome to BGCI. Bgci.org. Retrieved on 2012-01-21.</ref> Template:TOC right

Barbados

• Andromeda Botanic Gardens
• Hunte's Gardens

Belarus

• Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus<ref>Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus in Russian – page in English "under construction"</ref>

Belize

• Belize Botanic Gardens

Bermuda

• Bermuda Botanical Gardens

Botswana

• National Botanical Garden (Botswana), Gaborone<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Burkina Faso

• Bantia Botanical Garden

Cameroon

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  The African Fan Palms in Limbe Botanical Gardens, Cameroon

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Cayman Islands

• Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park

Costa Rica

• Lankester Botanical Garden

Dominica

• Dominica Botanical Gardens

Dominican Republic

• Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden

Fiji

• Savurua Botanical Gardens<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Thurston Gardens, Suva

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

Guyana

• Georgetown Botanical Gardens<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Haiti

• Jardin Botanique des Cayes<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Kuwait

• Bayan Botanical Garden, Bayan Palace<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Kuwait Botanic Garden</ref>

Malta

• Argotti Botanic Gardens, Floriana<ref>Argotti Botanic Gardens & Resource Centre University of Malta</ref>

Myanmar

• National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens

Monaco

• Jardin Exotique de Monaco

Kyrgyzstan

• Botanical garden named after E. Gareev of Kyrgyzstan Science Academy, Bishkek

Myanmar

• National Botanical Gardens, Pyin U Lwin, Mandalay Division

North Korea

• Korea Central Botanical Garden, Pyongyang<ref>Korea Central Botanical Garden</ref>

Pakistan

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• Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore
• National Herbarium, Islamabad
• Rani Bagh Arboretum, Hyderabad
• Sukh Chayn Gardens, Lahore
• Herbarium and Botanical Garden, Shah Abdul Latif University

Palestine

• Palestine Museum of Natural History - Botanic Garden

Panama

• Parque Municipal Summit

Paraguay

• Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción, Asunción

Puerto Rico

• San Juan Botanical Garden

Republic of Moldova

• Chișinău Botanical Garden

Saint Lucia

• St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Botanic Gardens

Serbia

• Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrade

Slovenia

• University Botanic Gardens, Ljubljana

Sultanate Of Oman

• Oman Botanic Garden<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Sudan

• Sudan National Botanical Garden

Sweden

• Alnarpsparken, Alnarp<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Bergius Botanic Garden, Stockholm<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Fredriksdal Museums and Gardens, Helsingborg<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Göteborg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>homepage info in English</ref>
• The Knowledge Garden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Linnaean Gardens, Uppsala<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>in English</ref>
• Lund Botanical Garden, Lund<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Visby Botanical Garden, Visby<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Tahiti

• Jardin Botanique, Papeete<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Tonga

• 'Ene'io Botanical Garden – Vava'u

Turkey

• Atatürk Arboretum
• Karaca Arboretum

Uganda

• National Botanical Gardens (Uganda)

Venezuela

• Centro Jardín Botánico de Mérida<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of herbaria
• List of aquaria
• List of zoos
• List of tourist attractions worldwide

External links

• Botanic Garden Conservation International's Garden Search Database