Senin, 05 April 2010
Botanic Garden Purwodadi
Purwodadi Botanical Garden is a garden located in a major research Purwodadi, Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia. Covers 85 hectares and has about 10,000 species of trees and plant collections. Purwodadi Botanical Garden was established on January 30, 1941 by Dr. Lourens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking on the initiative of Dr. Dirk Fok van Slooten on January 30, 1941 as an expansion of Experiment Stations' s Lands Plantentuin or Bogor Botanical Gardens Buitenzorg. This garden is one of the three branches of Indonesia Botanical Gardens (Kebun Raya Bogor), which each have specific tasks and functions. The two other branches are Cibodas Botanical Garden and the Eka Karya Botanic Garden Bali. Management of the entire Botanical Garden is under the responsibility of Sciences Institute Indonesi