Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret, Research botanical garden in Cap d'Antibes, France.

Jardin botanique de la Villa Thuret is a botanical garden in Cap d'Antibes housing trees and shrubs from Mediterranean climates around the world. The specimens were planted here for research and conservation purposes, creating a working collection of botanical diversity.

Gustave Thuret, a botanist known for his work on algae, began planting the garden in 1857 on land he bought at Cap d'Antibes, and ran acclimatization trials there with Édouard Bornet and the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. After Thuret died in 1875, his sister-in-law Louise Fould bought the property in 1877 and gave it to the French state, on condition that it keep the name Villa Thuret and stay tied to a scientific teaching institution. Charles Naudin became its first director in 1878; in 1927 it passed to the Ministry of Agriculture's agronomic research institute, the future INRAE.

The garden bears the name of Gustave Thuret, the botanist who cultivated plants from around the world on this site. Visitors today can see how the collection reflects the 19th-century fascination with exotic species.

The garden entrance is at 90, chemin Raymond in Antibes Juan-les-Pins, on the Cap d'Antibes. It is open on weekdays and admission is free. Only the 3.5-hectare botanical garden is regularly open to the public; the villa buildings, laboratories, herbarium and library are not.

The garden's herbarium held 16 collections in 1879; about twenty more have been added since, including Poirault's ferns, Jean Crozals' bryophytes and Henri Stehlé's plants from the Antilles. It is kept in darkness under controlled atmosphere, and a rehabilitation project began in 2011 with INRAE, the Alpes-Maritimes department and volunteers.