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Cibodas Botanical Garden

Published by INDONESIA under on 13.01
Kebun Raya Cibodas (the Cibodas Botanical Gardens) is a 125-hectare botanical garden located approximately 1,400 meters up on the slopes of Mount Gede, 23 kilometers to the northwest of Cianjur in the Cibodas subdistrict of West Java, Indonesia. It was founded in 1862 by the Dutch botanist Johannes Elias Teysjmann as an extension of the Bogor Botanical Gardens, and is the first location that Cinchona trees were grown in Indonesia for quinine production.

The gardens have a collection of almost 6,000 specimens, representing over 1,200 species, and a glasshouse collection of over 4,000 specimens, including 350 species of cacti and succulents and 360 species of orchids.


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