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. The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden in West Bengal is the first of its kind in the South Asia.

List of botanical parks

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Name State Details
Padmapuram gardens, Araku Andhra Pradesh
Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden, Guwahati Assam
Ekamra Kanan Botanical Gardens, Bhubaneswar Odisha
Sanjay Gandhi Jaivik Udyan, Patna Bihar
Hyderabad Botanical Garden Telangana
NTR Garden, Hyderabad Telangana
Panjab University Botanical Garden Chandigarh
Jijamata Udyaan, Mumbai Maharashtra
Pilikula Botanical Garden, Mangaluru Karnataka
Regional Museum of Natural History Mysore, Mysuru Karnataka
Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Biggest in India and conserves the largest number of plant species in Asia
Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute for Plant Sciences, Kozhikode Kerala Largest collection of aquatic plant species in India[1]
Government Botanical Gardens, Ooty, Nilgiris district Tamil Nadu
Semmoli Poonga, Chennai Tamil Nadu
Madhavaram Botanical Garden, Chennai Tamil Nadu Largest botanical garden in Chennai
Aligarh Fort, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh Maintained by the Department of Botany, AMU
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah West Bengal Home to The Great Banyan, an enormous banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) that is reckoned to be the largest tree in the world, at more than 330 metres in circumference
Agri Horticultural Society of India, Kolkata West Bengal
Lloyd's Botanical Garden, Darjeeling West Bengal
Narendra Narayan Park, Cooch Behar West Bengal
Lalbagh, Bengaluru Karnataka
Malampuzha Garden, Palakkad Kerala
Mysore Zoo, Mysuru Karnataka
National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre Haryana One of the largest Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden in India, situated in Panchkula, Haryana

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References

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  1. ^ "മുഖം മിനുക്കി മലബാർ ബൊട്ടാണിക്കൽ ഗാർഡൻ". ManoramaOnline.
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