About:

• The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden was founded by Colonel Robert Kyd in the year 1787.
• It is located on the banks of Hooghly river, near Kolkata. 
• It has some of the rarest species of flora of Indian subcontinent as well as from all over the world.
• Apart from being a home to 12,000 perennial plants of 1,400 species, the garden has much more to it. It has conservatories, glass houses, greenhouses and 25 divisions of herbaceous plants.  The garden is the major center of horticultural and botanical research in India.
• A 250 year old Banyan Tree is one of the major attractions of this botanical garden.

Why in the news?

• Cyclone Amphan has caused severe damage to the above mentioned garden. More than 1000 trees have fallen, including some of the rarest one.
• The Banyan Tree has endured the cyclone with little damage.