Indian Botanic Garden near Kolkata

Indian Botanical Garden situated at Shibpur near the capital city of West Bengal, Calcutta (Kolkata) is in West Bengal state, India.

The garden was known as East India Company’s Garden or the Company Bagan or Calcutta Garden and later as the Royal Botanic Garden which after independence was renamed as the Indian Botanic Garden in 1950.

The main attraction here is the Great Banyan tree and is considered to be the largest one in Asia. A wonder in plant kingdom, the tree occupies its position in the “Guinness book of world records”. The city is located in the eastern India on the banks of river Hooghly.