The Living World - Botanical Gardens

Description:

These are tracts where plants of different types and areas are grown for scientific and educational purposes.

The important functions of botanical gardens are −

• Growing important plants of local flora.
• Keeping record of local flora.
• Providing living plant material for systematic work.
• Supplying seeds and material for different aspects of botanical research.
• Growing and maintaining rare and endangered plants.

Some major botanical gardens of world are −

• Main botanical garden, Moscow
• Royal Botanical Garden, Kew (London)
• Indian Botanical Garden Sibpur Kolkata.
• National Botanical Garden, Lucknow.