Perdana Botanical Gardens transformed into complete recreational park

Sunday, September 1, 2019

Two facilities have been opened at the 131-year-old Perdana Botanical Gardens today by Malaysian Prime Minister, making it a complete recreational park with elements of research, education and conservation.

Prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad planted an evergreen Kembang Semangkuk (Scaphium linearicarpum) sapling as a symbolic gesture of the opening of the Visitors Complex and Ethnobotany Park as the added attractions of the gardens.

Dr Mahathir, accompanied by Deputy Federal Territories Minister Dr Shahruddin Md Salleh and Kuala Lumpur mayor Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan, went on a tour of the facilities and was given a briefing on the transformation of the park that was opened in 1888.

The two facilities are the final elements of the second-phase upgrading of the botanical gardens, and were completed last April.

The Visitors Complex houses a herbarium as a research centre; an interpretation centre as an information centre; a briefing room and a souvenir shop.

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