History of Cibodas Botanical Garden
Cibodas Botanical Garden was established on 11 April 1852 by Johannes Ellias Teijsmann, a curator of the Garden at that time. With the name of Bergtuin te Tjibodas (Kebun Cibodas Mountains), it is initially intended as a place of acclimatization plant species of foreign origin who have value and high economic importance, one of which is the Tree Quinine (Cinchona calisaya). Later on, it is developed into a part of the Bogor Botanical Gardens Branch name Cibodas Botanical Center. Starting in 2003 the status of the Botanical Gardens Cibodas become more independent as a Technical Implementation Unit Plant Conservation Center Cibodas Botanical under the Center for Plant Conservation in the Bogor Botanical Gardens Deputies Life Science Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI).
Location of Cibodas Botanical Gardens located at Mount Gede and Mount Pangrango at an altitude of approximately 1300-1425 meters above sea level with an area of 84.99 hectares. The average temperature of 20.06 ° C, humidity of 80.82% and an average rainfall of 2,950 mm per year. Cibodas Botanical Garden is a comfortable place to rest while enjoying the beauty of the various types of plants that originated from Indonesia and other countries. Cibodas Botanical Garden is ± 100 km from Jakarta and ± 80 KM from Bandung
Inside Cibodas Botanical Garden
Sakura Park
Most people do not really know that sakura flower not only be seen in Japan only but it can be planted, grown and can be seen perfectly in Indonesia, particularly in the Cibodas Botanical Garden. In this botanical garden of Dutch heritage, sakura bloom turned out to be two times in one year, which is about a month from January to February and July to August. It is something truly amazing. This flower blooms, can last about four days. The period required since grown into the autumn flower bud is about 1 week. It's a remarkable thing when we can see the typical flower petals shows the Himalayan region. The flowers were so beautiful, gorgeous pink tinge to the white color makes people more curious and more amazed.
Based on data from the index kwensis turns in this world there are 308 kinds of Sakura, but according to Section Chief Ex-situ conservation Nana Suryana, SS, in Cibodas Botanical only have 7 kinds of Sakura is Prunus cerasoides, Prunus yedoensis, Prunus Yamasakura, Prunus lannesiana, Prunus sp , Prunus arborea and Prunus costata. In Sakura Garden for only now there are 5 types of Sakura is Prunus cerasoides, Prunus yedoensis, Prunus Yamasakura, Prunus lannesiana and Prunus sp, whereas types dikoleksikan for the moment there are three types of Prunus arborea from Java, Prunus costata of Irian / Papua and Prunus cerasoides of the Himalayas. Prunus cerasoides is the oldest type of Sakura contained in Cibodas is first planted dated May 13, 1971 and now in subdiscipline XX.B. 21 a, b, whereas for yedoensis Prunus, Prunus Yamasakura, lannesiana Prunus, Prunus sp derived from Hatta in 2002. Sakura Garden itself was made in March 2007 - December 2007 with an area of 6647 m2 and is made to enrich the theme parks in the Botanical Garden Cibodas.
Currently Cibodas Botanical Gardens has over 435 trees around both the collection and the non-collection. Many questions about this unique plant, such as: "how can Sakura live in Indonesia?", "How could Sakura bloom two times in one year in Indonesia?". The questions that I often encounter when I bring guests to get around Cibodas in general and see beautiful flowers Sakura in particular. According to curator Rosaceae, it turns out this was due Cibodas Botanical Garden has a height that is almost the same as the original habitat of Sakura. In addition to the contour of the land and how to care and the climate was also a possible cause flowering Sakura could happen two times in one year.
Moss Park
This park was built in 2004 and opened to the public officially on April 11, 2006, the anniversary of the Botanical Gardens Cibodas to 154. The 1,500 m2 garden was designed to resemble the natural habitat in the moss on a tree trunk that is, soil, rocks and certain media. Natural shade is also provided by the shade of native Indonesian plants that grow around it to give the desired humid conditions. Most of his collection came from around Cibodas Botanical Garden, and to date the collection, which is in Lumut there are 134 types
Azalea Park
This park was built and inaugurated in 2002 on the initiator of Former Head Botanical Gardens Cibodas Drs. R. Subekti Purwantoro which at the time was still serving as head of the Cibodas Botanical Gardens with an area of ± 5000 m2. This park was originally built to collect various Rhododendron plants in the Botanical Gardens Cibodas that come from various countries and regions. At the moment there are three species of rhododendron planted namely Rhododendron javanicum of Java, Papua and macgregoriae Rhododendron Rhododendron mucronatum of Japan.
Rhododendron, commonly known as Azalea is a bush-shaped plant with a height of one meter below and lively place temperate at altitudes between 800-2400 meters above sea level. In Cibodas Botanical Garden there is one plant that made an icon Azalea Gardens Cibodas because the plant was originally from Java. The plant name is javanicum Rhododendron (Azalea Java). This type was planted first time in Cibodas on January 30, 2005 and including the plant species endemic in Java, Indonesia. This plant has orange flowers with a beautiful flower structure and the resistance loss of up to one week although it has been cut
