Botanical Garden Aburi

The Aburi Botanical Garden, opened in 1890, is located 32 kilometers north of Ghana’s capital. This 64.8-hectare garden has one of the largest collections of tropical plants in Africa and other continents, including rare ones.

The collection includes about 650 species of plants, of which the oldest representative of the flora is the cotton tree Kapok, which is about 150 years old, growing at the wall of the board building.

Also in the garden grow trees planted here by Elizabeth II in 1961, Ignatius Kutu Achampong in 1973, Olusegun Obasanjov in 1979 and other famous personalities.

In the garden you can get acquainted with its inhabitants - local birds and butterflies, of which there are quite a lot.