Level III

Learning Center and Botanical Garden Establishing the Royal Park Rajapruek as a center for plant collection (Botanical garden) and a learning center on projects initiated by His Majesty the King. These projects are focused on horticulture, biodiversity, landscape development, medical plants and traditional health practices as well as to promote environmentally sustainable and responsible green development throughout the nation.

Exhibitions and Events Organizing and endorsing (international) conferences, meetings, exhibitions and various events to endorse His Majesty’s initiatives in improving livelihoods of the people, agriculture and biodiversity. Another aspect is the increase of a better cooperation with domestic and international agencies as well as the private sector.

The garden is part of the Faculty of Science at Charles University, it covers an area of 3.5 hectares and is visited by approximately 100,000 visitors annually. It serves as a site for scientific research and teaching for students of Charles University and other schools and contributes to the lifelong education of the public.

The collection of subtropical woody plants includes around 350 different taxa, all of which are grown in pots. During the warm months, the plants are displayed outdoors at their summer site, while in winter, they are relocated to a greenhouse. This collection features long-established specimens of Casuarina, Myrtus, and Camellia. Notably, it includes the critically endangered Cupressus dupreziana, part of a conservation project in collaboration with Algerian conservationists. Due to climate change, this species can no longer reproduce naturally in its native habitat. The garden successfully cultivated these rare plants, completing the first round of reintroduction into the wild in February 2020. The tropical woody plants are permanently housed in the tropical section of the greenhouse.

Opened in 1893, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is the City of Pittsburgh’s green oasis, encompassing 15 acres including a 14-room glasshouse and 23 distinct gardens. Nestled in the middle of forested Schenley Park, the Conservatory’s tree collection provides continuity with the park’s environs. In its outdoor gardens, Phipps’ holdings include a diverse array of species ranging from the grand fern leaf European beech tree (Fagus sylvatica 'Asplenifolia') to the kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) and weeping cherry tree (Prunus pendula 'Pendula Rosea'). Indoors, palms, fruiting trees and tropical forest natives like the newly-acquired Acacia koa highlight the efficacy and multitude of uses that have bonded people to trees throughout history. On the campus’ front lawn, 70-year-old dawn redwoods (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), which were seeded from the first North American collection after their rediscovery in China and previously thought extinct, provide an awe-striking link to prehistoric Earth. And in its living campus, where three of the greenest buildings in the world set an innovative new standard for spaces that consider the health and wellbeing of people and the planet alike, young native trees play a vital role in bringing a remediated brownfield back to life.

Botanical Garden Teplice was founded in 2002. The total garden’s area is 2 hectares, approximately half of which is devoted to the open-air display of plants; the exhibition glasshouses occupy an area of 2400 m². The storage glasshouses, occupying an area of 1750 m², are not open to the public. Main mission is to collect, maintain and document colourful collections of plants from all over the world to preserve the wealth of natural species.

Our collections contain valuable representatives of tropical and subtropical flora from around the world. The most important are plants from Madagascar, Southeast Asia and South America in our glasshouses, but also trees and shrubs from Europe, North America and Asia in our open-air display.

Villa Thuret has been a research site dedicated to botany, and acclimatization since 1857.  It is now managed by INRAE (Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agronomie, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement), under the “Villa Thuret Experimental Unit”, which has botanical, ecological and acclimatization expertises and patrimonial, experimental, and scientific mediation missions.

The collections of the botanic garden comprise more than 2000 trees and bushes from 933 species, 131 botanic families and 459 genera. These plants, which originate from 380 major regions around the world, were all introduced by respecting the conservation of biodiversity and international regulations.

Survival abilities of cultivated plants, phenotyping of growth, phenology, morphological and functional features are studied and recorded.

The unit sets up observations and experiments in the framework of co-constructed devices, sensors and insect traps, collects and delivers sample from its collections, takes part in science programs and in the monitoring of emerging exotic invasive species (plants and animals).

The Bhagalpur University Botanical garden is situated in the campus of University Department of Botany (Tilka Manjhi Bhagalpur University) (25⁰14’26’’N Latitude and 86⁰56’53’’E Longitude). The garden has beautiful landscape and covers a total area of about eight acres of land. A large number of plants including some rare, endangered, threatened and endemic (RET &E) i.e. plants genetic resources are being conserved at present in the Bhagalpur University Botanic Garden. Some of the sacred plants are worshiped by the locals. The Botanic garden is organized  with various education & awareness activities such as seminars, symposia, nature camps, nature trails etc. for educating the students and people about the importance of conserving the rare and threatened plant species.

The plants especially trees play great importance in human life. Humans and other animals are directly or indirectly dependent on plants, because plants are the primary producer of ecosystem on earth. They provide food, fodder, timber, fuel, etc. There are many trees both indigenous and exotic that are growing in the Bhagalpur University Botanical Garden. The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEF & CC), Gov. of India has also selected this garden for conservation and propagation of threatened and endemic plants in the year 2003-2004.

The arboretum is located in mid – Cheshire in the village of Swettenham and adjacent to the Swettenham Arms (ideal for refreshments) it is a mainly flat site situated above the Dane Valley itself an SSSI for its geology. The site is some 18ha. In extent and consists of mown paths and glades through the tree collection.

We have collections of Fraxinus 43 taxa and Pinus 53 taxa. We have 104 Tree Register identified specimens including a fine Heptacodium miconioides, Pinus coulteri, P.muricata and just inside the entrance an impressive Ostrya carpinifolia.

The Honolulu Botanical Gardens is comprised of five unique gardens located on the island of O`ahu; Foster, Ho`omaluhia, Koko Crater, Lili`uokalani, and Wahiawā. Together, the gardens represent four ecological settings and cover 650-acres.  The system is municipally-supported and administered by the City and County of Honolulu, Department of Parks and Recreation.

The mission of the HBG is to curate, maintain, and study documented collections of tropical plants in an aesthetic setting for the purposes of conservation, botany, horticulture, education, and recreation.  The plant collections include approximately 5,000 taxa of trees and plants from around the world with an emphasis on Hawai`i's rare flora.