Bogor Botanical Gardens

Bogor Botanical Gardens is one of tourist objects are well known in Indonesia. This garden is located in the heart of the city of Bogor in altitude 260m above sea level, with high rainfall between 3000-4300 mm per year. Botanical widely around 87 ha, and the number recorded last collection of about 13,714 specimens. Based on the data in March of 2003, a collection of plant life found there amount to 3452 species (species), representing 1267 genera (genus), or 220 families (family). Collection of plants Bogor Botanical Gardens consists of 70% is derived from the Indonesian archipelago and 30% of plants from overseas.Bogor Botanical Garden is equipped with libraries, banks and museums seed seed, plant nursery, greenhouse, and laboratory.


History Of Bogor Botanical Gardens

A part of the stone monument erected by Tulis Baduga Sri Maharaja (King Siliwangi) of the Kingdom of Padjadjaran in 1474 to 15,131 at the Botanical Gardens was named Samida (artificial forests or parks artificial), which aimed to preserve the environment needs to keep and place the seeds seeds maintain a rare wood.Samida beside it (which became known as the Bogor Botanical Gardens), at the same time made similar Samida in Bogor Cianjur boundaries (Forest Ciung Vanara), both in terms of the aslian cultivated plant species and plant layout. If so in fact, the Raffles and Van den Bosh is the only figure enhancer pemugar and plant collections for botanical gardens that have been established since the late 14 th century by the dynasty of the Kingdom of Padjadjaran.

The idea began with the founding of the Botanical Garden a biologist is Reindwardt who wrote to the Commissioner-General G. S. G. P. van der Capellen. In his letter Reindwardt expressed his desire to ask for a plot of land that will be useful garden plants, as a place of teacher education, collection of plants also developed into another garden.

Botanical garden, founded on 18 May 181 7 by, Prof.. Dr. C. G. L. Reindwardt which was then called, was s'Lands Buitenzorg Plantentuinte better known as Bogor Botanical Gardens. Bogor Botanical Gardens throughout its history has the name of "s'Lands Plantentuin," Syokubutzuer "Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg," Botanical Garden of Indonesia ", and Botanical Gardens Gede love match. But in the end is better known as Bogor Botanical Gardens. Stance begins by putting the first shovel swing on earth as a sign Pajajaran garden was built development, which inevitably led by sanaannya own Reindwardt, assisted by Mr. James Hooper and W. Kent from Kew Botanical Gardens is famous in England, in the city of Richmond.Reindwardt pioneering efforts in the field of the Herbarium.He is also known as a founder of the Herbarium Bogoriense.

In the year 1822 by Dr. Reindwardt replaced. Carl Ludwig Blume is to inventory the collection of plants that grow in the garden. He also prepared the first garden catalogs successfully recorded as many as 912 species (species) of plants.

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