List of botanical gardens

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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

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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
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

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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

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

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Botanic Gardens

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

Alnarpsparken, Alnarp
Bergius Botanic Garden, Stockholm
Fredriksdal Museums and Gardens, Helsingborg
Göteborg Botanical Garden, Gothenburg
The Knowledge Garden at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala
The Linnaean Gardens, Uppsala
Lund Botanical Garden, Lund
Visby Botanical Garden, Visby