Cibodas Botanical Garden

Cibodas Botanical Gardens is a 84.99ha botanical garden on the slopes of Mount Gede, located in the Cibodas subdistrict of West Java, Indonesia. It is operated by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences .HistoryThe garden was founded in 1852 by the Dutch botanist Johannes Elias Teijsmann as a branch of the Bogor Botanical Gardens, and its layout was completed under Rudolph Scheffer in later years.OverviewThe gardens were built at a high altitude, allowing the growth of subtropical plants. The garden is approximately 1300- above mean sea level, with an average temperature across the year of 20.06 °C, and an average humidity of 80.82%.The gardens are the first place that Cinchona trees were grown in Indonesia for quinine production in 1854. The trees was originally brought to Java by Justus Carl Hasskarl from South America and was successfully experimented in the garden. Plants which are exotic to Indonesia, such as Eucalyptus from Australia, Conifers from Europe, and others are cultivated in the area.

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