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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 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 Bonn University Botanic Garden, Bonn, the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, England, the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden, Netherlands, Kraus Preserve of Ohio Wesleyan University.

This page lists important botanical gardens throughout the world:

Argentina


Australia


Austria


Belgium


Bermuda


Belarus


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Brazil


Canada


Chile


China


Colombia


Croatia


Czech Republic


Denmark


  • Botanisk Have, [[University of Copenhagen|Københavns Universitets
]], Copenhagen

Ecuador


Estonia


Finland


France


Georgia


Germany


Honduras


Hungary


India


Indonesia


Iran


Ireland


Israel


Italy


Japan


Latvia


Lithuania


Malaysia


Mauritius


México


Monaco


Myanmar


Netherlands


New Zealand


North Korea (see Kimjongilia)


Norway


Peru


Portugal


Romania


Russia


Serbia


Singapore


South Africa


Spain


Sri Lanka


Sweden


Switzerland


Tahiti


Thailand


Trinidad and Tobago


Ukraine


United Kingdom


United States


See also


External links


Botanical gardens

Liste botanischer Gärten | Lista de Jardines Botánicos | Liste des jardins botaniques

 

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