Durban Botanic Gardens, Botanical garden in Durban, South Africa.

Durban Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in South Africa that displays ferns, orchids, palms, and cycads in a subtropical setting. The space is organized into sections for different plant groups and includes an herbarium used for scientific study and plant identification.

The garden was established in 1849 and moved to its current location in 1851 to grow economically important plants like sugar cane. Over time it became a research center for botanical studies rather than just a commercial venture.

The garden's emblem is Wood's Cycad, named after curator John Medley Wood, who found a clump in Ongoye Forest in 1895. Three basal offsets collected by his deputy James Wylie in 1903 were planted here, and the original specimens still grow in the garden. The John Medley Wood Medal is awarded by the garden's trust for achievements in horticulture and botany in KwaZulu-Natal.

The gardens lie about two kilometres north-west of Durban Central on Botanic Gardens Road, with the Visitors' Centre housing an information office, shop and seminar rooms. The Warwick Triangle herb market, one of the country's largest traditional plant markets, is a short distance away. The grounds receive roughly 500,000 visitors a year, so paths near the orchid house and palm avenue are busiest at weekends.

The three original Wood's Cycad specimens, collected by James Wylie in 1903 and 1907, still grow here; the species is known from a single wild male plant in Ongoye Forest and is now the garden's emblem.