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4 unusual facts about Mehan Garden


Mehan Garden

For his publications on Philippine flora, Vidal not only collected specimens, but also studied Malesian flora held in European herbaria, such as the Kew herbarium.

Inside the Garden are structures such as the Lawton Park n' Ride building and the Universidad de Manila.

The Garden is the open space off Liwasang Bonifacio (across the Philippine Post Office Main Building), bounded by Taft Avenue, LRT Central Terminal, the Metropolitan Theater, and Manila City Hall.

It was one of a number of botanical gardens established in Asia by European colonial powers (for example, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Bogor Botanical Gardens, 1817).



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