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 showy flowers, are grown for public amenity only. Botanical gardens that specialize in trees are sometimes referred to as arboretums. They are occasionally associated with zoos.
List of botanical gardens in India
- Agri Horticultural Society of India, Alipore, Kolkata
- Indian Botanical Gardens, Shibpur, Kolkata
- Lalbagh, Bangalore, Karnataka
- Government Botanical Gardens, Udagamandalam, Ootacamund, Tamil Nadu
- Jhansi Botanical Garden, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
- Saharanpur Botanical Garden, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
- Lloyd's Botanical Garden, Darjeeling, West Bengal
- Garden of Medicinal Plants, North Bengal University, West Bengal
- Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute Palode Kerala
