Batumi Botanical Garden

The Batumi Botanical Garden is a 108 hectare region of land nine km north of the metropolis of Batumi, capital of Autonomous Republic of Adjara, Georgia. Located on the place called Mtsvane Kontskhi The Green Cape at the Black Sea shore, it's far certainly one of the biggest botanical gardens inside the former Soviet Union. The Batumi Botanical Garden was started via the Russian botanist Andrey Nikolayevich Krasnov brother of General Pyotr Krasnov, in the 1880s and formally opened on November three, 1912.

He was aided by using skilled gardeners and interior decorators – the French D’Alphonse and the Georgian Yason Gordeziani. Krasnov died in 1914 and changed into interred on the lawn which nonetheless homes his grave and statue. Under the Soviet Union, the garden became in addition elevated and developed, due to the fact that 1925, into a principal group for the examine of Caucasian maritime subtropical cultures. Currently, the garden consists of 9 floristic sectors, the ones of Caucasian humid subtropics, East Asia, New Zealand, South America, the Himalayas, Mexico, Australia, and of the Mediterranean. The garden collection accommodates 2037 taxonomic gadgets of woody flora, which include 104 of Caucasian origin.