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Peradeniya,

1910

Talipot Palm Avenue in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon.

One of Asia's first and most important botanical gardens

The history of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya dates to 1821. The first British Superintendent Alexander Moon originally cleared the southwest area of the gardens. He published his catalog of plants on the island a few years later. Successive superintendents greatly expanded the gardens, growing