PN Mehra Botanical Garden — Attraction in Chandigarh

Botanical Gardens The Department also has the "P.N. Mehra Botanical Gardens", spread over 16 acres of land and named after its founder. It is one of the better known botanical gardens attached to a university of the country. Special attractions in the garden for the visitors are the Arboretum with nearly 225 species of trees; the water garden consisting of lily-ponds and vegetated with species of Nelumbium and Nymphaea. The Cactus-House has more than 100 species of cacti while the Orchid-House has amazingly beautiful orchids collected from different parts of India. In the Fern-House grow nearly 50 species of ferns and fern allies. Of considerable botanical interest is the Bambusetum with over two dozen rare species of bamboos collected and grown during the last 40 years. Several interesting succulent plants collected from different parts of the country further contribute to the beauty of the garden. In order to grow plants under controlled conditions the garden has an automated Greenhouse. There is a well-maintained nursery where plants are raised, multiplied, acclimatized and then transplanted. The botanical garden, besides serving as the repository of the source material for botanical studies, is also geared to cater to the dire need of conserving and enriching plant bio-diversity through exchange of...

Most beautiful and epic place to watch the plants tree and garden. Their is separate for each displayed tree name for allocate the information and have cactus house and bamboo section and separate Medicinal plant section contains Number of medicinal important plant have role in various kind of drugs and for preparing the medicine and various kind of activities towards the microorganisms. They have no of tree from tropical to temperate environment and no of bryophytes and ferns and pteridophytes. Thanks to all of them who provide the support and financial services to support the this...

It's a best place to enjoy nature. A noise free, non-polluted environment having bird's chirping music only. There are lot of different plants, flowers and trees over here. Scientific and common names are clearly mentioned on almost all plant categories. Cactus house was locked so we had to see through grilled door only. There was nobody to guide us and I don't know if Cactus house door could be opened on request or not.

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