List of 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

, 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.^[1]

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Bangladesh

Barbados

• Andromeda Botanic Gardens
• Hunte's Gardens

Belarus

• Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus^[2]

Belgium

Belize

• Belize Botanic Gardens

Bermuda

• Bermuda Botanical Gardens

Botswana

• National Botanical Garden (Botswana), Gaborone^[3]

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

• Bantia Botanical Garden

Cameroon

• 

  Limbe Botanic Garden^[4]

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

• Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden

Ecuador

Egypt

Estonia

Fiji

• Savurua Botanical Gardens^[5]
• Thurston Gardens, Suva

Finland

France

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

Guyana

• Georgetown Botanical Gardens^[6]

Haiti

• Jardin Botanique des Cayes^[7]

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Kuwait

• Bayan Botanical Garden, Bayan Palace^[8][9]

Latvia

Lithuania

Malaysia

Malta

• Argotti Botanic Gardens, Floriana^[10]

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

• Mandalay Division

Netherlands

New Zealand

North Korea

• Korea Central Botanical Garden, Pyongyang^[11]

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

• Parque Municipal Summit

Paraguay

• Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción, Asunción

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

• San Juan Botanical Garden

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^[12]

Sudan

• Sudan National Botanical Garden

Sweden

Switzerland

Tahiti

• Jardin Botanique, Papeete^[13]

Taiwan

Tonga

• 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

References

External links

• Botanic Garden Conservation International's Garden Search Database