Question

What is difference between botanical garden and herbarium ?(any 3 points)

Answer 1

Botanical garden
1. place where living plant collections of different varieties are maintained.
2. Here the living plants are only grown.
3. modern botanical garden are quite big and possess greenhouses, a herbarium, a library and research laboratories.

Herbarium
1. place where a collection of dried , pressed and well preserved plant specimens are kept.
2. It also possess wood materials , microslides , photographs , drawings, etc.
3. Herbarium is comparatively a small institution present inside a botanical garden or in an university.