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  2. Henarathgoda Botanical Garden - Wikipedia

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    Henarathgoda Botanical Garden, also known as Gampaha Botanical Garden, is one of the six botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. The botanical garden is situated on the Gampaha-Minuwangoda main road, approximately 450 m (1,480 ft) away from Gampaha railway station. It is about 29 km (18 mi) from Sri Lanka's commercial capital of Colombo. [2] [3]

  3. Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya - Wikipedia

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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 ] It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest river in Sri Lanka). [ 2 ] It is renowned for its collection of orchids.

  4. List of botanical gardens in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    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. Mirijjawila Botanical Garden. Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Kandy.

  5. Gampaha - Wikipedia

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    Henarathgoda Botanical Garden where the first rubber tree was planted in Sri Lanka [6] is still present located close to Gampaha town. The garden is bordered with Attangalle oya and covers about 17 ha (43 acres). It is believed that the garden is more than 128 years old. [7] Henarathgoda old railway station. Currently this building has been ...

  6. Seethawaka Botanical Garden - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Seethawaka Botanical Garden, or Seethawaka Wet Zone Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Sri Lanka which mainly serves as a research area and a conservation area for threatened and vulnerable endemic plant species in the Sinharaja Rain Forest region. Improving export floriculture, ex situ conservation of wet lowland plants, and ...

  7. Rubber production in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Rubber production in Sri Lanka commenced in 1876, with the planting of 1,919 rubber seedlings at the Henarathgoda Botanical Gardens in Gampaha. [1] The total extent under rubber in 1890 was around 50 ha (120 acres) and in the early 1900s it increased to around 10,000 ha (25,000 acres). By 1982 the total extent under rubber was around 180,000 ha ...

  8. Category:Botanical gardens in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    S. Seethawaka Botanical Garden. Categories: Botanical gardens by country. Parks in Sri Lanka. Botanical gardens in Asia by country. Flora of Sri Lanka. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.

  9. Gampaha District - Wikipedia

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    Gampaha District is located in the west of Sri Lanka and has an area of 1,387 square kilometres (536 sq mi). [1] It is bounded by Kurunegala and Puttalam districts from north, Kegalle District from east, Colombo District from south and by the Indian Ocean from west. [4] The borders of the district are the Ma Oya on the north, Kelani River on ...