11 Facts About Botanical garden

Botanical garden or botanic garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation, preservation and display of an especially wide range of plants, which are typically labelled with their botanical names.

Botanical garden is a controlled and staffed institution for the maintenance of a living collection of plants under scientific management for purposes of education and research, together with such libraries, herbaria, laboratories, and museums as are essential to its particular undertakings.

Each botanical garden naturally develops its own special fields of interests depending on its personnel, location, extent, available funds, and the terms of its charter.

Botanical garden's Exoticorum libri decem is an important survey of exotic plants and animals that is still consulted today.

Botanical garden had a wide influence on both botany and horticulture, as plants poured into it from around the world.

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The Botanical garden is managed as a historical site that includes a few original and many modern specimens as well as extensive archives and restored historical farm buildings.

The Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is the most famous and developed garden in the country, established in 1913 on a site dating to 1848 and covering a 36 hectare area with an additional 528 hectares of mountainside wilderness that form part of the garden.

Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden is the oldest university botanical garden in South Africa, and was established in 1922.

Some smaller gardens and parks that verge on being a botanical garden includes the Arderne Gardens in Cape Town founded in 1845.

In 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden was founded at St Louis; it is one of the world's leading gardens specializing in tropical plants.

The scientific reputation of a botanical garden is judged by the publications coming out of herbaria and similar facilities, not by its living collections.