KSCSTE Malabar botanical garden and institute for plant sciences
It aims at growing around 600 plants out of the 742 mentioned in Hortus Malabaricus, the first printed treatise on Asian Medicinal Plants, at Chaliyam, calicut district in kerala. its named after Itti Achuthan, a traditional medical practitioner of the 17 th century and author of the book Keralaramam.
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malabar botanical garden
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus, is a treatise in the scientific classification of plants in Latin written by Hendrik Andrian van Rheede, the Dutch Governor General of Malabar. It is a 12-volume book with information on 742 medicinal plants in the Malabar region. The plants were described in detail with illustrations. The local names of the plants were printed in Malayalam, and thus Hortus Malabaricus, printed at Amsterdam in Holland in the 17 th century, became the first book in which Malayalam alphabet appeared on print. .
malabar botanical garden
About 100 years later A century later, Carl Linnaeus, known as the Father of Taxonomy, is said to have depended on Hortus Malabaricus to get information regarding plants in Asia. Linnaeus had used the same method used in Hortus Malabaricus to classify the plants shows the importance of the book. K.S. Manilal,of the kerala university who translated the book into Malayalam and English, has found that around 100 species of plants mentioned in Hortus Malabaricus had disappeared.. . .
malabar botanical garden
The garden, set up in 2011, houses 525 of the 742 plant species of Malabar mentioned by van Rheede in his 17th century book. The plants have been arranged theme-wise. A ‘Smrithivanam', with saplings planted by noted personalities . .
malabar botanical garden
The Nakshatravanam has plants that go with every star sign of the Malayalam calendar while the Dashapushpam plot, Dashamoolam plot, Nalpamaram plot, and Thriphala plot have plants under each category arranged together for the convenience of researchers and students.
location: kozhikode 673 014 phone 91 495 2430939
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