Q.Write short notes on: Importance of botanical garden.

A botanical garden serves several important purposes:

• Ex-situ conservation of plant diversity — it maintains living plants of many different varieties, collected from different parts of the world, grown in a scientific and systematic way, which helps conserve species diversity outside their natural range.
• A resource for scientific/taxonomic study — properly labelled plants (with both scientific and common names) allow botanists and students to study, compare and identify species directly from living material, complementing dried herbarium specimens.
• Housing species from other climates — through greenhouses, a botanical garden can maintain plant species from climates quite different from its own location, widening the range of diversity it can support. …

• Treating a botanical garden as merely a 'park for visiting' without mentioning its scientific/conservation role. …