Seethawaka Botanical Garden
Seethawaka Botanical Garden, or Seethawaka Wet Zone Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Sri Lanka which mainly serves as a research area and a conservation area for threatened and vulnerable endemic plant species in the Sinharaja Rain Forest region. Improving export floriculture, ex situ conservation of wet lowland plants, and bamboo cultivation are also promoted in this garden. The garden was opened to the public in late October 2014 and it is the most recently constructed botanical garden in Sri Lanka.
| Seethawaka Botanical Garden | |
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| Type | Botanical garden |
| Location | Ilukovita, Avissawella |
| Area | 42 ha |
| Created | 2014 |
| Operated by | Commission of Land, Sri Lanka |
| Status | Open all year |
| Website | Department of National Botanic Gardens, Sri Lanka |
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