Bogor Botanical Gardens
The city of Bogor, which belongs to Indonesia, houses the largest, as well as the oldest botanical garden, both in this country and in the whole world. This wonderful Bogor garden is located near the volcano Salak. His fame has long since left the borders of Indonesia.
The year of the garden's foundation is 1817, by order of the governor of the Dutch East Indies. From the very beginning, the garden area was 47 hectares of land, and was adjacent to the governor's residence. The plants that are present in the Bogor Botanical Garden multiplied at a high rate. And already in 1923, it was filled with 912 species of representatives of the plant world.
The entire area of the park is divided into parts, so the central territory occupies 87 hectares of land and is the main one, but there are also branches of the garden, which are located in remote areas of Java Island and even Bali island.
It is known from the history of the Bogor Botanical Garden that during the earthquake in 1834, the entire territory, along with landscaping, was severely damaged. But all the losses were quickly restored, and the collection of collected natural exhibits even multiplied. All the plants began to be planted, taking into account their ancestral affiliation. A little later, a library began to operate on the territory of the garden, where scientific papers developed by the research method of local scientists were collected. There is also an exhibition of herbariums. At that time (1891), a biological laboratory opened its doors in one of the branches of the garden, which still operates today.
When Indonesia gained independence, the name of the botanical garden sounded like a Nature Research Center, and then, as it is now known, the Bogor Botanical Garden.
In 1959, the Botanical Park opened its last fourth branch in Bali. Its area is 159.4 hectares of land.
The collection of the botanical garden is very diverse, it is represented by close to 14.5 thousand plants, including 5839 of their varieties. Representatives of the plant world have been gathering for many years in different places of the Planet. There is a huge variety of palm trees, succulents, bamboo, lianas, saprophytes, as well as an immense number of other plants.
Tourists are attracted by unusual plants with moving roots, the generic of which is Pandanus. The garden simply fascinates with its unsurpassed collection of charming orchids, of which 550 varieties have gathered.
Bogorsky Botanical Garden also serves as the home of a plant that has the largest flower on the entire Planet, Rafflesia Arnoldi.
Bogorsky Botanical Garden is an excellent place all over the world, the beauty of which will not leave anyone indifferent.
