Botanical garden is a very old garden,which was created during 1786-1806 at the time of east india company.

Botanical gardens of Kolkata, India are situated 8 kms away from the city, on the west bank of the Ganga, covering an area of about 273 acres.

Laid out in the year 1787, Calcutta botanical garden is one of the oldest and largest botanical gardens of India.

It contains about 12,000 living perennial plants and millions of dried out plants gathered from world over.

The main attraction of the botanical gardens is the giant size banyan tree that is said to have the second largest canopy in the world.
Over here, you can find a plethora of beautiful orchids and other colorful flowers. The garden also has a library, where you can find a valuable collection of books on botany. The botanical garden of Calcutta houses trees of rarest variety.
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