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Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya are about 5.5 km to the west of the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. In 2016, the garden was visited by 1.2 million locals and 400,000 foreign visitors. [ 1 ]
Peradeniya's name is derived from pera and deniya (a plain). [1] Peradeniya is famous for the Royal Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya. [2] It is situated in a slope of the Mahaweli river and attracts many visitors from Sri Lanka as well as from abroad. Another key attribute of this suburb is the University of Peradeniya. [3]
There are botanical gardens and arboreta in all states and territories of Sri Lanka, most are administered by local governments, and some are privately owned. Hakgala Botanical Garden Henarathgoda Botanical Garden , [ 1 ] 7°06′00″N 79°59′10″E / 7.0999345°N 79.9860853°E / 7.0999345; 79.9860853
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya is situated about 5 km to the west of the city centre at Peradeniya and is visited by 2 million people per year. [26] It is the largest botanical garden on the island extending to 147 acres (59 ha) and containing over 4000 species of plants. [ 26 ]
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Royal Botanic Gardens or Royal Botanical Gardens may refer to: Australia ... Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Trinidad and Tobago
The gardens have become attractive places among local and foreign visitors. Botanical Gardens Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya · Hakgala Botanical Garden · Henarathgoda Botanical Garden · Mirijjawila Botanical Garden · Seetawaka Botanical Garden · Ganewatta Forest Medicinal Herbal Botanical Garden
In March 1849, on the death of George Gardner, Thwaites was appointed superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon. A position he held for thirty years, until he resigned in 1879. [3] He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society on 1 June 1865 following the publication of his Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniæ, – (five fasciculi ...