Brief Study On Botanical Gardens

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BOTANICAL
GARDENS
-BY:SARAN
PRAKASH,ROKESH ,ASHWIN
KUMAR
CHIRANJEEVI,JAYESH,NIKHIL.

2. WHAT IS BOTANICAL
GARDEN?
• Botanic gardens are institutions holding
documented collections of living plants for the
purpose of scientific research, conservation,
display and education.
• In 2018, bgci updated the criteria that define
a botanic garden to have a greater emphasis on
conserving rare and threatened plants,
compliance with international policies and
sustainability and ethical initiatives.
• Bgci has developed an accreditation scheme to
distinguish between gardens and botanic
gardens. The Scheme uses bgci’s updated
definition of a botanic garden as well as the
outcome bgci’s technical review on defining a
botanic garden.

3. HISTORY OF
BOTANICAL GARDENS.
• Gardens and the cultivation of plants have
been around for thousands of years with the
first examples dating to around 3,000 years
ago in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
• However, the first ‘true’ botanic gardens with
an underlying scientific foundation were the
physic gardens of Italy created in the 16th
and 17th centuries.
• The first of these physic gardens was the
garden of the University of Pisa which was
created by Luca Ghini in 1543.
• Following this, other Italian universities
followed suit and gardens were created in
Padova (1545), Firenze (1545) and Bologna
(1547).
• These gardens were purely for the academic
study of medicinal plants. By the 16th Century
these medicinal gardens had spread to
universities and apothecaries throughout
central Europe such as Cologne and Prague.

4. ASUSUAL..TIME FOR CONNECTIONS.
GUESS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN NAMES

5. ACHARYA JAGADISH
CHANDRA BOSE
INDIAN BOTANICAL
GARDEN
❖ Location: Shibpur, west side of Kolkata City
Centre.
❖ Area:109 Hectares.
❖ Founded by:Colonel Robert KYd in the year of
1787.
❖ Reason for the name:After independence it was
called as indian botanical garden.Later on it was
changed to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose
inorder to honour the Bengali scientist Jagadish
Chandra Bose.
❖ Technical advancement:It is equipped with
greenhouses and summerhouses and more than 25
divisions of herbal plants.
❖ Species found here:The Great Banyan Tree which
is the second-largest canopy and biggest banyan
tree in the world. You can get the glimpse of
water lily, Victoria Amazonica, double coconut,
breadfruit tree and rare plants from Brazil,
Nepal.

6. GUESS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
NAME

7. LALBAGH
BOTANICAL
GARDEN
❖Location: Bangalore.
❖Area:240 acres
❖Started by: HYder Ali in the year
of 1760.
❖Technical advancements: Today, it
is famous for Herbal and Economic
Garden along with hi-tech seed and
soil testing laboratories.
❖Species present here: More than
1800 species are found in this
garden. The prominent attraction of
Lalbagh is a huge and the well
maintained Grape Orchard.

8. GUESS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
NAME

9. NATIONAL
BOTANICAL GARDEN
❖Location: Lucknow
❖Created by:Nawab Saadat Ali Khan
❖Area: 75 acres
❖Comprises of:Plant Science Institute
and a Botanical Garden in the same
area, hence always crowded with
intellectuals and tourists.
❖Species: There are Citrus and
Mango Orchard growing popular
varieties of Dasheri, Safeda and
various other renowned varieties of
mangoes.

10. GUESS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
NAME

11. LLOYD BOTANICAL
GARDEN
❖Location: Darjeeling.
❖Created by:William LLoyd
❖Area :40 acres
❖Reason for the name: Mr.
William Lloyd donated this land
for creating this garden, hence
it was named after him.
❖Comprises of :7 sectors
❖Species :40 cacti species. 118
year-old woody climber,more
than 46 orchids,more than 3230
species.

12. GUESS THE BOTANICAL GARDEN
NAME

13. OOTY BOTANICAL
GARDEN
• Location : Ooty
• Foundation was laid by:Graham
Mclvor.
• Maintained by:Tamil Nadu
Government
• Area:22 hectares.
• Species:Various types of shrubs,
bonsai, trees, herbs, and ferns are
found in this botanical garden. The
exclusivity of this garden is a 20
million-year-old fossil trunk,
procured by Geological Survey of
India, Tamil Nadu.

14. ROLE OF
BOTANIC GARDENS
• Several botanic garden activities are
important for the conservation of plants
around the world, including:
• Horticulture and cultivation skills allow
botanic gardens to grow plants that might
be lost in the wild. Living collections and
seed banks safeguard species and enable the
restoration and rehabilitation of degraded
habitats.
• Research and development into plant
taxonomy and genetics, phytochemistry,
useful plant properties and informing
selection of plants that can withstand
degraded and changing environments
(especially important with the threat posed
by climate change).

15. ROLE
OF BOTANIC GARDENS
• Education is a strength of botanic
gardens that allows them to
communicate the importance of
conserving plants, reaching out to
diverse audiences, and also to
communicate how this may be
achieved.
• Linking plants with the well-being of
people, and also helping conserve
indigenous and local knowledge, to
encourage the sustainable use of
plant resources for the benefit of
all, as part of sustainable
development.

16. DRAGON’S BLOOD
TREE
• Found in: one island off the coast
of Yemen
Discovered: 1835
Appearance: This tree has a unique
umbrella shape
• To see this rare tree, you’ll have to
travel to Yemen, rent a boat, and
visit the island of Socotra.
Socotra, like the Galapagos Islands,
holds a wide variety of unique
native species only found there. If
you stand beneath a Dragon’s Blood
Tree and look up, it resembles the
base of a mushroom. Find a tree
with a nick in the bark and you’ll
learn where it got its name: the sap
is red as blood.

17. CORPSE FLOWER
• Found in: certain rainforests in SE Asia
Discovered: 1878
Appearance: The flower resembles an
enormous, five-petaled red blossom with
a central yellow cone
• Not every flower is a pleasant
experience. The corpseflower has a
parasitic blossom similar to pitcher
plants. It uses its unique and unpleasant
smell (similar to rotting flesh) to lure in
meals. However, the corpseflower needs
to grow for up to seven years before it
first blooms. This rare and smelly plant
is unlikely to be found in botanical
gardens. You can sometimes uncover them
in moist, rich jungles of Southeast Asia.
Just follow your nose.

18. QUIVER TREE
• Found in: South Africa and parts of
Namibia
Discovered: unknown
Appearance: This tree features a tall,
thick base that is topped by a mass of
narrow, tangled branches
• Instead of normal leaves, this tree gets
energy from the sun through narrow
spikes. From a distance, it looks more like
an overgrown aloe plant than a tree.
Indigenous peoples used the wood from
this tree to craft quivers to hold their
arrows. One of the subspecies is
extremely endangered, with only 200 left.
The best place to find the remaining
Quiver Trees is in a preserve in the
remote city of Keetmanshoop, Namibia.

19. SUICIDE PALM
Found in: certain areas of Madagascar
Discovered: 2005
Appearance: A tall palm with a broad canopy
Madagasgar is known worldwide for its biodiversity.
Among the most unusual of this island’s plant life is the
Suicide Palm. This palm was first discovered in
2005 by a Madagascar farmer on an outing. It’s
extremely rare, with only about 90 found in the wild.
This distinctive palm lives for 50 years, flowers, and
dies. It’s also quite a towering tree, reaching heights
of up to 18 meters in height. Its fan palm leaves
stretch 15 meters across, shading broad areas of the
Madagascar soil

20. MIDDLEMIST RED
• Found in: Botanical gardens in London and New
Zealand
Discovered: 1804
Appearance: This plant looks like a rose but
is actually a member of the Camellia family
• This plant, originally from China, was named
after flower importer John Middlemist in
1804. Just 200 years ago, Middlemist Reds
were highly sought after by Europeans.
• The plant was harvested so aggressively that
it’s now extinct in its native China. It lives on
in only 2 places: botanical gardens in
London and New Zealand. That’s right, there
are just two specimens left in the
world. Middlemist Red is the rarest plant in
the world. London’s specimen has had a wild
history: the plant survived a bomb planted by
an escaped mental asylum patient!

21. BOTANICAL GARDEN
AS ECOSYSTEM
❖ Botanical gardens are not only used for preserving
plants they also play a major role by interconnecting
components of ecosystem ..
❖ There are many species of plants which are
endangered and some plants have also been extinct.
❖ These botanical gardens are considered as heavens
for those plants which are being endangered
❖ Each and every organisms like different species of
birds and animals are dependent on various plant
species and other varieties.
❖ So these plants species are the basic and ultimate
source for all organisms.
❖ If these plants species become extinct ,the whole
ecosystem get degraded.
❖ Example:Botanical garden not only help in preserving
plant varieties in the specific area but also help in
triggering the growth of those endangered species
and other different species in near by places ,so
that birds and animals which depend on these plants
come to these areas sesaonally.

22. BOTANICAL
GARDEN AS
ECOSYSTEM
❖So these plants species are the basic
and ultimate source for all organisms.
❖If these plants species become
extinct ,the whole ecosystem
get degraded.
❖Example:Botanical garden not only
help in preserving plant varieties in
the specific area but also help
in triggering the growth of those
endangered species and other
different species in near by places ,so
that birds and animals which depend
on these plants come to these
areas sesaonally.

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