vbat.orgEgyptian Botanical Gardens
The botanical gardens are often confused in the Nile Valley with public gardens.
Though, according to some Egyptian botanists themselves, no gardens in Egypt is truly worthy of being objectively classified as “botanical garden”, we can still offer an official list of these institutions.
| No. | Name of the Botanical Garden | Present surface (feddan) | Date of Establishment | No. of Families | No. of Genius | No. of Species |
| 1 | Ain Shams Univ., Fac. of Sci. | 3 | 1953 | 114 | 750 | 1200 |
| 2 | Alex. Univ. Fac. of Sci. | 2 | 1942 | — | — | 500 |
| 3 | Cairo Univ., Fac. of Agr. | 15 | 1947 | 31 | 64 | 80 |
| 4 | Orman Botanical Garden, Giza | 28 | 1873 | 90 | 520 | 600 |
| 5 | Zohryia, Gezera, Giza | 8 | 1868 | 57 | 143 | 442 |
| 6 | Quba Palace, Cairo | 124 | 1960 | 72 | — | 551 |
| 7 | Zoo Garden, Giza | 80 | 1890 | 68 | 208 | 342 |
| 8 | Manial Palace, Giza | — | — | 61 | 150 | 239 |
| 9 | Agriculture Museum, Dokky, Giza | — | 1937 | 32 | 73 | 94 |
| 10 | Azbakyia Garden | 10 | 1867 | 41 | 83 | 800 |
| 11 | Antoniadis Garden, Alex | 45 | 1860 | — | — | 62 |
| 12 | Al-Nozha Garden, Alex. | — | 300 BC | — | — | — |
| 13 | Rose Garden, Alex. | 5 | 1928 | — | — | — |
| 14 | Aswan Garden | 17 | 1928 | 59 | 97 | 371 |
PS: The feddan is 0,42 ha (4200 m2).
Source: Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (Arab Republic of Egypt), 2006.
- View of Cairo, Egypt, photographed from a balloon at about 500 metres above ground. Left of the Nile are the Botanical Gardens and the race track, right are the British barracks and the Egyptian Museum.
(Deutsch: Ansicht von Kairo, Ägypten. Links des Nils der Botanische Garten und die Rennbahn, rechts die Englische Kaserne und das Ägyptische Museum. Fotografiert aus einem Ballon aus ca. 500m Höhe).
July 21, 1904; first published in Spelterini, E.: Über den Wolken/Par dessus les nuages, Brunner & Co, Zürich 1928, p. 81.
By Eduard Spelterini, (1852–1931), Swiss pioneer of ballooning and of aerial photography.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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