National Botanic Garden of Israel

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National Botanic Garden of Israel
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LocationMount Scopus, Jerusalem
Created1931 (1931)
Operated byHebrew University of Jerusalem
StatusOpen all year
Websitebotanic-garden.huji.ac.il/eng_index.htm
Botanist Alexander Eig planting the first tree in the garden – 1931

National Botanic Garden of Israel (officially Montague Lamport Botanical Garden for the Native Plants of Israel) Hebrew: הגן הבוטני לצמחי ארץ ישראל ע"ש מונטג'יו למפורט), is a botanical garden located on the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Its herbarium and Institution Code is HUJ. [1] It covers an area of 25 dunams and contains 950 varieties of plants, 40% of them wild.[2]

  1. ^ Botanical Garden for Native Flora of Israel Botanic Gardens Conservation International
  2. ^ The revival of Mount Scopus Botanical Garden Archived 27 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Jerusalem Post