For a healthy and balanced development of a nation, wealth in the form of material goods are no doubt necessary but a beautiful environment is just as essential. Colorful trees and flowers play a great part in making the environment beautiful and in refining the minds of the inhabitants.
Botanical gardens are those where trees, shrubs, herbs, climbers and other plants are collected from different places and grown in a garden in a scientific and systematic manner. Some botanical gardens are meant for recreation parks. While real botanical gardens are mainly for scientific studies, education and research learning. Libraries and Herbaria are attached to these botanical gardens.
Andhra Loyola College is known for its excellence in many ways. It is a big campus covering an area of 98 acres of land. The entire campus is fully covered with a green canopy. Because of thick vegetation, the temperature in the campus is always less than 2°c when compared to external temperature of the city.
Dept of Botany has established a separate botanical garden in an area of nearly 2acres of land. The main aim of developing our botanical garden is,
- To give more knowledge in plant taxonomy with the help of living plant materials.
- All the important varieties of plants must be grown in a common area.
- Biology students they should learn taxonomical classification of plants and comparative study of various plants and their uses can also be documented.
- Collection of living plants in the garden helps the students to study the morphology and evolution of plants in a comparative manner.
- School children, students from other colleges and the public can visit and get an awareness of the richness of biodiversity.
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