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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

Contents

1 Australia

2 Belarus

3 Canada

4 Denmark

5 Finland

6 France

7 Georgia

8 Germany

9 Honduras

10 India

11 Israel

12 Netherlands

13 New Zealand

14 North Korea (see Kimjongilia)

15 Norway

16 Sweden

17 Singapore

18 Switzerland

19 United Kingdom

20 United States

21 See also

22 External links

Australia

Royal Botanic Gardens , Melbourne, Victoria

Belarus

Central Botanical Garden of NAS of Belarus

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Canada

Jardin Botanique de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec [2]
Royal Botanical Gardens , Hamilton, Ontario
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, Vancouver, British Columbia

Denmark

Botanisk Have , University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen

Finland

Kasvitieteellinen puutarha , University of Helsinki, Helsinki

France

Jardin des Plantes, Paris

Georgia

Bakuriani Botanical Garden of The Ketskhoveli Institute of Botany of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
Batumi Botanical Garden of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
Central Botanical Garden of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Tbilisi)