Durban Botanic Gardens, Durban, South Africa

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“Durban Botanic Gardens is Durban’s oldest public institution and Africa’s oldest surviving botanical gardens.

The Durban Botanic Gardens was established to participate in the quest of Kew Gardens to establish a series of botanic gardens across the world which would assist in the introduction of economically valuable plants, and to supply plants to Kew that were new to science.” (1)

[1] -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban_Botanic_Gardens

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