Bogor Botanical Gardens

Bogor Botanical Gardens Bogor Botanical Gardens, or is a major research orchard located in the city of Bogor, Indonesia. The extent reached 80 hectares and has a collection of 15,000 species of trees and plants.

Currently busy Bogor Botanical Gardens as a tourist to visit, especially on Saturday and Sunday. Around the Bogor Botanical Gardens spread scientific centers of Bogoriense Herbarium, Museum of Zoology, and IPB.

Bogor Botanical Gardens was originally a part of the 'samida' (artificial forests or parks artificial) that at least the government has no Baduga Sri Maharaja (King Siliwangi, 1474-1513) of the Kingdom of Sunda, as written in the inscription Batutulis. Artificial forests were intended for the purpose of conserving the environment as a place to preserve the seeds of rare wood seeds. In addition samida also made similar samida on the border with Bogor Cianjur (Forest Ciung Vanara). The forest is then left after the submission of Sunda Kingdom Sultanate of Banten, to the Governor-General van der Capellen built cottage in one corner in the mid-18th century.
In the early 1800s Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles, who inhabit the Bogor Palace and has a great interest in botany, interested in developing Bogor Palace yard into a beautiful garden. With the help of botanists, W. Kent, who had built Kew Garden in London, Raffles courtyard transformed into a classic English-style garden. This is the beginning of Bogor Botanic Garden in its present form.

The establishment of Bogor Botanical Gardens can be said initiated the development of science in Indonesia. From here was born a few other scientific institutions, such as the Bibliotheca Bogoriensis (1842, Herbarium Bogoriense (1844, Cibodas Botanical Garden (1860), Laboratory Treub (1884, and the Museum and Laboratory of Zoology (1894.
On May 30, 1868 Bogor Botanical Gardens officially separate term with the Bogor Palace pages. At first, this garden will only be used as an experimental garden for crops that will be introduced to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). But the development is also used as a container of research scientists of the time (1880 to 1905).

Bogor Botanical Gardens throughout the course of history have different names and nicknames, such as
• s'Lands Plantentuin

• Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg
• Botanical Garden of Indonesia
• Garden Gede
• garden love match.