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 Serial No. NameStateDetails 1 Padmapuram gardens, Araku Andhra Pradesh 2 Assam State Zoo-cum-Botanical Garden, Guwahati Assam 3 Ekamra Kanan Botanical Gardens, Bhubaneswar Odisha 4 Sanjay Gandhi Jaivik Udyan, Patna Bihar 5 Hyderabad Botanical Garden Telangana 6 NTR Garden, Hyderabad Telangana 7 Panjab University Botanical Garden Chandigarh 8 Jijamata Udyaan, Mumbai Maharashtra 9 Pilikula Botanical Garden, Mangaluru Karnataka 10 Regional Museum of Natural History Mysore, Mysuru Karnataka 11 Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Biggest in India and conserves the largest number of plant species in Asia 12 Malabar Botanical Garden and Institute for Plant Sciences, Kozhikode Kerala Largest collection of aquatic plant species in India 13 Government Botanical Gardens, Ooty, Nilgiris district Tamil Nadu 14 Semmozhi Poonga, Chennai Tamil Nadu 15 Madhavaram Botanical Garden, Chennai Tamil Nadu Largest botanical garden in Chennai 16 Aligarh Fort, Aligarh Uttar Pradesh Maintained by the Department of Botany, AMU 17 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 18 Agri Horticultural Society of India, Kolkata West Bengal 19 Lloyd's Botanical Garden, Darjeeling West Bengal 20 Narendra Narayan Park, Cooch Behar West Bengal 21 Lalbagh, Bengaluru Karnataka 22 Malampuzha Garden, Palakkad Kerala 23 Mysore Zoo, Mysuru Karnataka 24 National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre Haryana One of the largest Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden in India, situated in Panchkula, Haryana25Anandbag Botanical GardenDarbhanga26Botanic Garden of Indian RepublicNoida, Delhi NCR27Kohima Botanical GardenKohima, Nagaland
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