Caves Branch Botanical Garden

Caves Branch Botanical Garden Our garden will give you a glimpse into the fascinating flora and fauna of Belize. Join us for the f

Our gardens offer you an incredible selection of tropical plants that will shock you by their flamboyant colors (17 different species of hibiscus), as well as plants that will surprise the visitors by its’ subtle ingenuity in adapting itself to the rainforest environment (sensitive plants, dropping its branches upon the lightest touch). Our gardens will introduce you to the variety of plants that you can find in Belize and make your travel through the rest of the country much more enjoyable as you will start noticing plants around you and have a better understanding of our nature. Visitors will have a chance to smell the lemon grass and all-spice leaves, see the coffee, cacao, papaya and pineapple growing at various times of the year along the sides of the walkways through the gardens. You will have a chance to see a wide variety of orchids local to Central America from the abundantly flowering National Flower of Belize, The Black Orchid, to the local miniature and micro orchids, some of which have flowers not bigger than 2mm in diameter (0.078 inches) and even such famous orchids, as Vanilla orchid, the source of world famous vanilla spice. For more photos, see our Flickr page: 113448252@N02/albums" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/113448252@N02/albums

08/09/2026

Thank you to all UB students and community volunteers assisting the national herbarium to get better.

08/09/2026

Today we were dealing with specimens that were partially saved by cleaning the larva and herbarium beetle and then frozen last year. These boxes are the foundation of the major book on ethnobotany, and this is whats left from those specimens.

It takes patience and passion at the same time to work on heavy damaged specimens. Passion for our nature and for our co...
05/09/2026

It takes patience and passion at the same time to work on heavy damaged specimens. Passion for our nature and for our collective knowledge of Belizean flora. So Herbarium is our national treasure- like a library of dried plants that have sooooo much information. Bottom pic, what the plant looked like after many years in the box..and how it looks after restoration.

04/09/2026

Update from Forestry Department Belize National herbarium team. alot of restoration of heavily damaged specimens taking place...requires tons of patience to give the heavily damaged specimens new life:

Also more work there on stamping of specimens and resorting boxes.... we are working all days just didn't have enough sp...
22/08/2026

Also more work there on stamping of specimens and resorting boxes.... we are working all days just didn't have enough space for volunteers,,, sorry could stop myself from selfie, sooo much work still ahead of us this year!

22/08/2026

News from Herbarium: another volunteer today..... Cory Young Elsbeth Hobo Arnold John Castillo Denver T. Cayetano

Brief updates from Belize Forestry Department Herbarium Team:
12/08/2026

Brief updates from Belize Forestry Department Herbarium Team:

Every year, we have zoo camp coming for Botanical workshop. its such a fun and high energy event- participants, counselo...
31/07/2026

Every year, we have zoo camp coming for Botanical workshop. its such a fun and high energy event- participants, counselors, our guys, all feel together the live for nature.

30/07/2026

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Mile 41 1/2 HUmmingbird Highway
Belmopan

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610-3451

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