Question

The largest botanical garden of India is
a. National Botanical Garden, Lucknow
b. Indian Botanical Garden, Shibpur
c. Lalbagh Gardens, Bangalore
d. Botanical Garden, Ootacamund

Answer 1

Hint: Botanical garden is the garden where it contains a wide variety of plants which are collected, and cultivated, and preserve, where they display the plants with their botanical names labeled below, and botanical garden also contains super variety plants, which are cacti, succulent plants, etc.

Complete answer:
- Botanical gardens are generally run by universities and scientific research organizations.
- Their main role is to make the documents or list of the living plants that are used for different purposes such as display plants, and the number of varieties used for research, the number of plants that are cultivating, etc.
- These botanical gardens allow a certain type of visitors such as tourists and students for educational purposes, in case of any art exhibition, etc.
- Some of the botanical gardens present in India are
- Lalbagh botanical garden which is located at Bangalore
- Government botanical garden, which is located at Ooty
- Tamilnadu agriculture university present in Coimbatore
- The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian botanical garden which is located in Kolkata, this is also called a Calcutta botanical garden, which is located at shibpur, Kolkata.
- This Indian botanical garden is the largest botanical garden in India, and it was established in the year 1787, which occupies 150 hectares of land and contains almost 2500 varieties of species of plants.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: The special attraction of this botanical garden is the banyan tree which is very old, that is almost 250 years old, and this botanical garden is under the control of the botanical survey of India, of ministers of environment and forest, the government of India.