Botanical Garden at Waghai, Dangs, Gujarat

The Botanical Garden is situated 2 km away from Waghai village on Waghai-Saputara road. Established in 1966, the 24 hectares garden is the largest garden in Gujarat. Besides ex-situ conservation of rare, endangered and endemic species; the Garden 

Botanical Garden, Waghai

nurtures a diverse array of 1400 plant species and 1077 genera representing 100 families. The Garden has systemic network of internal roads spreading over 7 km in length. Each avenue is named after species that are planted there on both sides e.g. Neem road, Ashok road, Anacardium road etc. There is a collection of about 8000 Herbarium sheets of 1000 species. The Garden is divided into several plots representing different forest types such as evergreen, moist deciduous, dry deciduous, scrub and thorn, arid zone etc. as classified by Hutchison and Seth. Besides these, the garden has other separate plots like taxonomy plot, medicinal plot, bamboo plot, palm plot, Dangs plot, orchid plot and rose plot. Apart from excellent collection of cactus, the garden contains variety of bamboo species such as Chinese bamboo, Golden bamboo, Beer bottle bamboo etc.

Locomotive Steam Engine, Botanical Garden, Waghai

Attracting more than one lakh tourists each year, the Garden is equipped with interpretation center, library, research and demonstration center, meeting hall, drinking water and sanitation, canteen and a rest house. The garden is open from 8am-6pm and entry is free.