IBGN- About Indian Botanic Gardens Network - MMPG

Model Medicinal Plants Garden
(MMPG)

MMPG - National Botanical Research Institute

Introduction || Objectives || Outline of the site || Project Team || Work Progress

Objectives:

To establish a MMPG at NBRI with state of art multimedia facility, which will be open to general public and available for academic, aesthetic and recreational aspects.
To develop a fully data based and vouchered collection of medicinal plant species which includes common, rare, threatened and endangered plant species from different regions of Indo Gangetic Plain.
To establish identified medicinal plant species at NBRI following habitat and landscaping measures.
To establish a medicinal plants garden that will serve, as a major tool for conservation and eco-education and a standard by which their gardens can be measured and accepted as a part of the network.
To link the garden with the National databases of botanic gardens and threatened species, IBGN (Indian Botanic Gardens Network) and IIN India and also display it on Website.
Provide advice to tourists
To educate rural and urban people
The importance of medicinal plants, their sustainability and cultivation and thereby reduce collection from wild.
The value of medicinal plants in terms of health, income for urban and rural people.
To protect the natural populations of medicinal plants through cultivation.

What is a Model Medicinal Garden?

Well interpreted.

What part of the Indo Gangetic Plain will be covered?

Indo-Gangetic plains extending from Punjab and Haryana, UP, or middle and lower Ganga – are there particular areas of density of medicinal plants.

How does it vary from the gardens of the MAP institutes?

Collection of plants – displayed and labeled

Important Medicinal Plants of Indo-Gangetic region

1	Acorus calamus Linn.
2	Adhatoda vasica Nees.
3	Aloe barbadensis Mill.
4	Andrographis paniculata Nees.
5	Argyreia speciosa Sweet
6	Asparagus racemosus Willd.
7	Bacopa monnieri (Linn.)Pennell.
8	Boswellia serrata Roxb.
9	Caesalpinia bonducella Fleming
10	Calotropis gagantea (Linn.)R.Br.
11	Calotropis procera (Ait.)R.Br.
12	Cassia occidentalis Linn.
13	Centella asiatica (Linn.)Urban
14	Chlorophytum tuberosum Baker
15	Citrullus coloynthis Schrad.
16	Clitoria ternatea Linn.
17	Eclipta alba Hassk.
18	Catharanthus roseus (Linn.)G.Don
19	Gymnema sylvestre R.Br.
20	Hemidesmus indicus R.Br.
21	Desmodium gangeticum DC.
22	Ocimum basilicum Linn.
23	Ocimum sanctum Linn.
24	Phyllanths emblica Linn.
25	Phyllanthus amarus Sch. & Thonn.
26	Rauwolfia serpentina Benth.
27	Ricinus communis Linn.
28	Sida acuta Burm.
29	Sida cordifolia Linn.
30	Sida rhombifolia Linn.
31	Plumbago zeylanica Linn.
32	Terminalia chebula Retz.
33	Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.)Miers.
34	Wedellia calandulacea Less.
35	Withania somnifera Dunal.

Fig.2. Table of Medicinal Plants of Indo-Gangetic Plain of India

The Garden must demonstrate what is happening elsewhere – the national garden.

Introduction || Objectives || Outline of the site || Project Team || Work Progress