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Rimba Ilmu Botanical Gardens | |
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Entrance to Rimba Ilmu, University of Malaya | |
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Coordinates | 3°7′51.85″N101°39′28.67″E / 3.1310694°N 101.6579639°E |
Area | 80 hectares (0.80 km2) |
Established | 1974 |
Owned by | University of Malaya |
Administered by | Institute of Biological Sciences |
Website | rimba |
Rimba Ilmu (literally forest of knowledge) is a tropical botanical garden set up by the late Professor W.R. Stanton in 1974 on the campus of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [1] [2]
The garden has over 1,600 species of plants occupying over 80 hectares. [3] It is populated mainly with indigenous plants species but include many from tropical Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia, South America, Africa and Madagascar.