Kebun Raya Cibodas

Kebun Raya Cibodas (the Cibodas Botanical Garden) is a 125-hectares botanical garden, located approximately 1,300-1,425 meters up on the slopes of Mount Gede, 23 kilometers to the northwest of Cianjur in the Cibodas subdistrict of West Java, Indonesia or around 100 kilometers from Jakarta. It was founded in 1862 by the Dutch botanist Johannes Elias Teysjmann as an extension of the Bogor Botanical Gardens, and is the first location that Cinchona trees were grown in Indonesia for quinine production, but a few years later some of the plants had to be transferred to another more suitable place. At last introducing of exotic plants to Indonesia continued such as Eucalyptus from Australia, Conifer from Europe and others, so we may see the world in Cibodas Botanical Garden.^[1]

The gardens have a collection of almost 6,000 specimens, representing over 1,200 species, and a glasshouse collection of over 4,000 specimens,including 350 species of cacti and succulents and 360 species of orchids.

References

1. ^ http://goodnewsfromindonesia.org/2011/01/11/see-the-world-in-cibodas-botanic-garden/

External links

• Guide to Cibodas Botanic Garden

Coordinates: 6°44′32.0″S 107°00′20.0″E / 6.74222°S 107.00556°E / -6.74222; 107.00556