Batumi Botanical Garden, Botanical garden at Green Cape near Batumi, Georgia

Batumi Botanical Garden occupies a 1 km stretch of coastal slope between the mouth of the Chakhvistskali and Green Cape, rising from sea level to 220 m. Its hilly terrain of red and alluvial soils holds three arboreta, a Colchian forest reserve and nine floristic sections arranged by geography, from East Asia to Mexico.

Russian botanist and geographer Andrey Krasnov, a professor at Kharkov University, obtained approval in 1912 and the garden opened on 3 November 1912. He had led expeditions to Southeast Asia in the 1890s that brought tea and other plants to Chakva. Krasnov died in late 1914, but the landscape-geographical layout was already in place.

The garden's name honours Andrey Krasnov, a Russian botanist and geographer from Kharkov University who directed its planning. Georgian gardener Yason Gordeziani later created its Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, Australian, Chilean, New Zealand, American and European sections. Krasnov's grave lies on the grounds.

The garden stretches about 1 km along the coast between the mouth of the Chakhvistskali river and Green Cape, rising from sea level to 220 m, so paths climb steeply between the hills and ravines. The Upper Park began as Pavel Tatarinov's 10-hectare acclimatization garden of 1892. A library and a herbarium of more than 48,000 sheets serve research.

The garden's oldest exotics stand in the Upper Park, land that belonged to private owners before the revolution. There grow the ginkgo, the large-flowered magnolia, eucalyptus, cork oak and South American araucarias, older than the garden itself, which opened on 3 November 1912.