Botanical garden, also
called botanic garden, originally, a collection of living plants designed
chiefly to illustrate relationships within plant groups. In
modern times, most botanical gardens are
concerned primarily with exhibiting ornamental plants, insofar as possible in a
scheme that emphasizes natural relationships. Thus, the two functions are
blended: eye appeal and taxonomic order. Plants that were once of medicinal
value and extremely important in early botanical gardens are now chiefly of
historical interest and are not particularly represented in contemporary
collections. A display garden that
concentrates on woody plants (shrubs and trees) is often referred to as
an arboretum.
It may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden.
A major contemporary
objective of botanical gardens is to maintain extensive collections of plants,
labeled with common and scientific names and regions of origin. Plant
collections in such gardens vary in number from a few hundred to several
thousand different kinds, depending on the land area available and the
financial and scholarly resources of the institution.
Our National Botanical Garden
National Botanical
Garden is located in Mirpur, Dhaka adjacent of national Zoo. As Dhaka is over
crowded city; you can visit this place for breath taking. There are millions of
plants which are eye soothing. It is one of the largest botanical gardens of
Bangladesh, a nature learning center for the nature lovers, bird watchers,
photographers and botanists and a tourist destination. The Garden has a
scientific collection of approximately 100,000 preserved specimens of plants.
Even you can visit with your family members. Now security of this garden is
looking after by the law enforcement department
Rio de Janeiro
Botanical Garden
As world populations become more urbanized, botanical gardens are increasingly recognized as among the important cultural resources of industrialized nations. Botanical gardens offer the city dweller part of the natural environment that he no longer has access to; furthermore, they offer a mental escape from population pressure and suggest new interests and hobbies having to do with the natural world.
Indian Botanical Garden
Botanical garden, also
called botanic garden, originally, a collection of living plants designed
chiefly to illustrate relationships within plant groups. In
modern times, most botanical gardens are
concerned primarily with exhibiting ornamental plants, insofar as possible in a
scheme that emphasizes natural relationships. Thus, the two functions are
blended: eye appeal and taxonomic order. Plants that were once of medicinal
value and extremely important in early botanical gardens are now chiefly of
historical interest and are not particularly represented in contemporary
collections. A display garden that
concentrates on woody plants (shrubs and trees) is often referred to as
an arboretum.
It may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden.
Amazon Rainforest
Amazon
Rainforest,
large tropical rainforest occupying the drainage basin of the Amazon River and its tributaries in northern South America and covering an area of 2,300,000 square miles
(6,000,000 square km). Comprising about 40 percent of Brazil’s total area, it is bounded by the Guiana Highlands to the north, the Andes Mountains to the west, the Brazilian central plateau to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Cactus
A
cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127
genera with some 1,750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word
cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek word κάκτος, a name
originally used by Theophrastus for a spiny plant whose identity is now not
certain
Acharya
Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanical Garden is located at Shivpur, Howrah.
Commonly known as Calcutta Botanical Garden. The park exhibits a variety of
rare plants and a total collection of more than 12,000 specimens. The 109
hectare park is under the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) of the Ministry of
Environment and Forests, Government of India.
