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 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.

Barbados

 * Andromeda Botanic Gardens
 * Hunte's Gardens

Belarus

 * Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus

Belize

 * Belize Botanic Gardens

Bermuda

 * Bermuda Botanical Gardens

Botswana

 * National Botanical Garden (Botswana), Gaborone

Burkina Faso

 * Bantia Botanical Garden

Cameroon

 * African Pan Palm, Limbe.jpg Botanic Garden

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
 * Thurston Gardens, Suva

Gibraltar

 * Gibraltar Botanic Gardens

Guyana

 * Georgetown Botanical Gardens

Haiti

 * Jardin Botanique des Cayes

Kuwait

 * Bayan Botanical Garden, Bayan Palace

Malta

 * Argotti Botanic Gardens, Floriana

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

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

Puerto Rico

 * San Juan Botanical Garden

Republic of Moldova

 * Chișinău Botanical Garden

Saint Lucia

 * St. Lucia Botanical Gardens

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

 * Botanic Gardens St. Vincent

Serbia

 * Botanical Garden Jevremovac, Belgrade

Slovenia

 * University Botanic Gardens, Ljubljana

Sultanate Of Oman

 * Oman Botanic Garden

Sudan

 * Sudan National Botanical Garden

Tahiti

 * Jardin Botanique, Papeete

Tonga

 * 'Ene'io Botanical Garden – Vava'u

Turkey

 * Atatürk Arboretum
 * Karaca Arboretum

Uganda

 * National Botanical Gardens (Uganda)

Venezuela

 * Centro Jardín Botánico de Mérida