Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

הגן הבוטני האוניברסיטאי ירושלים
The tropical conservatory, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens
Established	1988
Location	Yehuda Burla St 1, Nayot Jerusalem, Israel
Coordinates	31°46′10″N 35°12′00″E / 31.76944°N 35.20000°E / 31.76944; 35.20000
Type	botanic garden
Collection size	6,400 species
Website	www.botanic.co.il

The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens (JBG) is a botanical garden and a center of botanical education and research in Jerusalem, Israel. The largest botanical garden in Israel, it features over 6,000 plant species from around the world, arranged in phytogeographic sections, including Australia, South Africa, Europe, North America, Southwest and Central Asia and the Mediterranean.^[1]

The garden, located in Nayot on the southeastern edge of the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,^[2] opened to the public in 1985 as a successor to the National Botanic Garden of Israel on Mount Scopus, which still exists today as a separate entity.