YEMEN 2
INSTITUTION NAME AND MAIN ADDRESS
COUNTRY Yemen
INSTITUTION NAME Socotra Botanic Garden”
MAIN ADDRESS Socotra Botanic Garden , a 3 km de Hadibo, capital de Socotra (Yemen)

Tel: 0131 248 2925

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AREA No information available
LATITUDE 12, 63 º N
LONGITUDE 53, 9 º E
ALTITUDE 45 m
INFORMATION ABOUT THE INSTITUTION
STATUS Unknonw
INSTITUTION TYPE Botanic Garden
DATE FOUNDED Around 1880
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Island’s unique plants, myrrh and aloes, Dracaena cinnabar (Sang-Dragon), and Adenium or Desert Rose
TAXA No information available
PROGRAMMES • Educational Programs
FEATURES AND FACILITIES • Arboretum• Nursery garden
MAIN DEFICIENCIES No information available
OTHER INFORMATION Socotra Conservation and Development Program (SCDP), The Conservation and Development Program of Socotra, the Government of Yemen and British cooperation with the support of the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh have collaborated to construct this botanical garden
SOURCES CONSULTED Web:

www.wikipedia.org

Documents:

Synoptic Biogeography of Socotra Archipelago, Yemen” .University of Sana’a, Republic of Yemen, 21-23 October 2007
Yemen: Country Report to The FAO International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources”. (Leipzig, 1996)

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