Situated on the west bank of river Hooghly in Kolkata, West Bengal.

Covering an area of 273 acres, its unique landscape design contains undulated land surfaces, artificial lakes and moats interconnected with underground pipes receiving water from the river Hooghly

Known as ‘East India Company Bagan’ it was renamed ‘Indian Botanic Garden’ in 1950.

The Great Banyan Tree of the garden is over 250 years old.

With over 2800 prop roots and covering an area of 1.5 hectares, it is said to have the second largest canopy in the world.

Contains about 12,000 living perennial plants and millions of dried out plants gathered from world over.

Has 109 species of Palms, the richest collection in South East Asia.

Has many medicinal plants in its medicinal plant garden (CharakUdyan).

Under the management of the Botanical Survey of India from 1963.