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 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 of Harvard University, the University of California Botanical Garden, Berkeley and the
UBC
Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research.
This page lists important botanical gardens throughout the world
- Lancetilla Botanical Garden, Tela
- Christchurch Botanic Gardens
- Korean Central Botanical Garden
- Bergianska
trädgården, Stockholm
- Botaniska trädgården, Lund
- Botaniska trädgården, Uppsala
- Göteborg botaniska trädgård, Gothenburg
- Botanical Garden of the University of Basel, Basel
- Berne
Botanical Garden, Bern
- Alpine
botanical garden, Champex
- Botanical Garden Schatzalp, Davos
- Botanical Garden of the University of Fribourg, Fribourg
- Geneva Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Geneva
- Jardin Botanique Cantonal Lausanne, Lausanne
- Botanical Garden of the University and City of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
- Botanical Garden St. Gallen, St. Gallen
- Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich, Zürich
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