Central Botanical Garden, Botanical garden in Pyongyang, North Korea

The Central Botanical Garden is a large outdoor space in Taesong-guyok, Pyongyang, displaying plant collections from North Korea and other regions in organized sections. The grounds feature walking paths that lead past flower beds and greenhouses, with a herbarium building that preserves thousands of plant specimens for study and display.

The garden was built in April 1959, the same year as the Central Zoo, which stands across a square from it. After the 2007 inter-Korean summit, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Yong-nam of North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly planted a South Korean pine here. Botanist Im Rok-jae once directed the garden.

The garden's "International Friendship Garden" displays plants donated by foreign friends, and greenhouses there cultivate Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia flowers. A museum and herbarium hold about 200,000 specimens for public and school botanical study. The garden has published two volumes of a Korean flora and an illustrated guide to North Korean plants.

The garden lies at the foot of Mount Daesong in Daesong-Dong, Daesong District, with its main entrance facing the square that separates it from the Central Zoo. Its 20 hectares are divided into 14 sections, so allow time to cross from the rose garden and orchard to the nursery and weather station. The herbarium holds about 200,000 specimens.

The garden's herbarium holds around 200,000 specimens, and the grounds also contain a museum and a weather station among the 14 sections. A pine planted in 2007 by Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Yong-nam after the inter-Korean summit stands here. The former director was botanist Im Rok-jae.