Edinburgh Botanical Gardens - Edinburgh Botanical Gardens

Japanese: エジンバラ植物園 - えじんばらしょくぶつえん
Edinburgh Botanical Gardens - Edinburgh Botanical Gardens


[Botanical Gardens of the World]
Botanical gardens whose main purpose is research require vast areas of land and facilities such as greenhouses for cultivating living plants, as well as laboratories and auxiliary facilities such as libraries and herbariums (botanical research specimen collections), which entail huge expenses, and most of them are national or public, or are attached to national or public universities. During the British Empire, the UK established facilities at Kew Botanic Gardens in the west suburbs of London, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens in Scotland, Calcutta Botanic Gardens in India, Peradeniya Botanic Gardens in Sri Lanka, Singapore Botanic Gardens in Singapore, and Sydney Botanic Gardens in Australia, and formed collaborative research structures. The number of plants that can be cultivated in botanical gardens is limited in both species and numbers, so herbariums are essential for comparative research of plants that grow around the world, and all of these botanical gardens are equipped with herbariums that are among the world's largest in terms of the number of specimens they hold.

*Some of the terms mentioned in the "Edinburgh Botanic Gardens" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[世界の植物園]
 研究を主目的とする植物園は生きた植物を栽培するための広大な面積と温室などの設備,それに研究室と,付属設備としての図書室とハーバリウム(植物研究資料標本館)を必要とするので膨大な経費を要し,ほとんどのものが国公立,または国公立の大学付属となっている。イギリスは大英帝国の時代に,ロンドン西郊のキュー植物園を中心に,スコットランドのエジンバラ植物園,インドのカルカッタ植物園,スリランカのペラデニア植物園,シンガポールのシンガポール植物園,オーストラリアのシドニー植物園などにそれぞれ設備を整え,共同研究の体制を組んだ。植物園に栽培できる植物は種数でも個体数でも限定されたものであり,世界中に生育する植物の比較研究をするためにはハーバリウムは不可欠であり,これらの植物園にはすべて所蔵標本点数でも世界屈指のハーバリウムが付設されている。…

※「エジンバラ植物園」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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