The Ljubljana Botanical Garden ( sl, Ljubljanski botanični vrt), officially the University of Ljubljana Botanical Garden (), is the central
Slovenian
botanical garden, the oldest botanical garden in
Southeastern Europe, and one of the oldest cultural, scientific, and educational organisations in Slovenia.
Its headquarters are located in the
Rudnik District of
Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, at
Ig Street () along the
Gruber Canal to the southeast of
Castle Hill.
The garden started operating under the leadership of
Franc Hladnik
Franz de Paula Hladnik (29 March 1773 – 25 November 1844) was a Carniolan botanist and schoolmaster.
He was born in Idria, Carniola, then in Austria (now Slovenia), the son of a mining official. He studied philosophy and theology and becam ...
in 1810, when Ljubljana was the capital of the
Illyrian Provinces
The Illyrian Provinces sl, Ilirske province hr, Ilirske provincije sr, Илирске провинције it, Province illirichegerman: Illyrische Provinzen, group=note were an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province of France d ...
.
It is thus an averagely old European botanical garden.
The institution is a member of the international network
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) is a plant conservation biology, conservation Charitable organization, charity based in Kew, Surrey, England. It is a membership organisation, working with 800 botanic gardens in 118 countries, who ...
and cooperates with more than 270 botanical gardens all across the world.
Of over 4,500 plant
species and
subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...
that grow on , roughly a third is
endemic to Slovenia, whereas the rest originate from other European places and other continents.
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Botanical gardens in Slovenia
Botanical Gardens
1810 establishments in the Illyrian Provinces
Botanical Garden
Monuments of designed nature of Slovenia
Protected areas in Ljubljana
Rudnik District
Cultural monuments of Slovenia
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