List of botanical gardens in India

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 beautiful flowers, are grown for public amenity Botanical gardens that specialize in trees are sometimes referred to as arboreta. They are occasionally associated with zoos.

• Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Shibpur, Kolkata
• Agri Horticultural Society of India, Alipore, Kolkata
• Aligarh Fort (maintained by the Department of Botany, AMU ), Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
• Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden, Guwahati
• Botanic Gardens - Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore
• Botanical Garden, near Sarangpur, Chandigarh
• Botanical Garden of the Department of Applied Botany at Mangalore University, Karnataka
• Botanical Garden of India Republic, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
• Curzon Park, Mysore, Karnataka
• Empress Garden, Pune
• The Garça Branca Ayurvedic Botanical Garden, Loutolim, Goa.
• Garden of Medicinal Plants, North Bengal University, West Bengal
• Government Botanical Gardens, Ootacamund, Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu
• IFGTB Botanical Garden - The Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
• Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute (TBGRI), Trivandrum, Kerala (biggest in India and conserves the largest number of plant species in Asia)
• Jhansi Botanical Garden, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
• Lalbagh, Bangalore, Karnataka
• Lloyd's Botanical Garden, Darjeeling, West Bengal
• Malampuzha Garden, Palakkad, Kerala
• The Mysore Zoo in Mysore, Karnataka is also a botanical garden
• Narendra Narayan Park at Cooch Behar, West Bengal
• Odisha State Botanical Garden Nandankanan, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
• Pilikula Arboretum (Pilikula Botanical Garden) at Pilikula Nisargadhama near Mangalore, Karnataka
• R. B. Botanical Garden and Amusement Park, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
• Regional Museum of Natural History Mysore, Mysore, Karnataka
• Saharanpur Botanical Garden, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
• Semmozhi Poonga, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• University of Mysore Botanic Garden, Mysore, Karnataka
• Vellayani Agricultural College, Trivandrum, Kerala

See also

• Arid Forest Research Institute
• Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
• List of botanical gardens
• Ministry of Environment and Forests (India)

References

• www.chandigarhenvis.gov.in
• www.chandigarh.gov.in

External links

• Botanic Garden Conservation International's garden search database