List of botanical gardens facts for kids
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.
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Barbados
- Andromeda Botanic Gardens
- Hunte's Gardens
Belarus
- Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus
Belgium
Belize
- Belize Botanic Gardens
Bermuda
- Bermuda Botanical Gardens
Botswana
- National Botanical Garden (Botswana), Gaborone
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
- Bantia Botanical Garden
Cameroon
- Limbe Botanic Garden
Canada
Cayman Islands
- Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Park
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
- Lankester Botanical Garden
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominica
- Dominica Botanical Gardens
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
Estonia
Fiji
- Savurua Botanical Gardens
- Thurston Gardens, Suva
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar Botanic Gardens
Guyana
- Georgetown Botanical Gardens
Haiti
- Jardin Botanique des Cayes
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Kuwait
- Bayan Botanical Garden, Bayan Palace
Latvia
Lithuania
Malaysia
Malta
- Argotti Botanic Gardens, Floriana
Mauritius
Myanmar
- National Kandawgyi Botanical Gardens
México
Monaco
- Jardin Exotique de Monaco
Kyrgyzstan
- Botanical garden named after E. Gareev of Kyrgyzstan Science Academy, Bishkek
Morocco
Myanmar
- National Botanical Gardens, Pyin U Lwin, Mandalay Division
Netherlands
New Zealand
North Korea
- Korea Central Botanical Garden, Pyongyang
Norway
Pakistan
- 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
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Republic of Moldova
- Chișinău Botanical Garden
Romania
Russia
Saint Lucia
- St. Lucia Botanical Gardens
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Botanic Gardens St. Vincent
Serbia
- Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrade
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
- University Botanic Gardens, Ljubljana
South Korea
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sultanate Of Oman
- Oman Botanic Garden
Sudan
- Sudan National Botanical Garden
Sweden
Switzerland
Tahiti
- Jardin Botanique, Papeete
Taiwan
Tonga
- 'Ene'io Botanical Garden – Vava'u
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
- Atatürk Arboretum
- Karaca Arboretum
Uganda
- National Botanical Gardens (Uganda)
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
- Centro Jardín Botánico de Mérida
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
See also
- List of herbaria
- List of aquaria
- List of zoos
- List of tourist attractions worldwide
