Plants of Oman

Spread over a 420 hectare site the Oman Botanic Garden is under development with an opening still a few years away.

Oman Botanic Garden

Oman Botanic Garden

Its an ambitious project and a multi purpose one with herbarium (already the  largest documented collection of Arabian plants in the world) , seed bank, educational facility, research and of course the garden. This will display in 7 biomes ranging from sand desert to the cloud forest of Dhofar many of the 1,200 species of plant in Oman.

Juniper Trees Oman Botanic Garden

Juniper Trees Oman Botanic Garden

Stands of trees & shrubs that have been specially cultivated stand along specimens which were ‘rescued’ from development projects throughout the country.

It will be interesting to see how the project develops.

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