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Advancing biodiversity conservation through strengthened collaboration with diverse institutions and organizations

Takeda Garden for Medicinal Plant Conservation, Kyoto is a botanical garden operated by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, a global biopharmaceutical company. Established in 1933 in response to the need for domestic pharmaceutical production following World War I, the garden started as a facility for basic research and production.
With the purpose of “contributing to better health of the earth and a brighter future through the utilization of plant genetic resources” the garden promotes biodiversity conservation through three core actions: Conserve, Connect, and Communicate.
In collaboration with various institutions and organizations, the garden carries out activities focused on medicinal plants, rare species, and native plants of Kyoto Prefecture. These activities include collection and preservation, research and investigation, education, and public outreach.The garden surrounds the historic Manshuin Temple and covers an extensive area of approximately 94,000 square meters. It maintains about 3,000 plant species, including about 1,900 medicinal plants collected from around the world and 265 endangered species.The garden also holds approximately 40,000 herbarium specimens,　including those created by Tomitaro Makino and Kumagusu Minakata, and around 5,000 crude drug specimens.Visitors should be sure to view the camellia garden, which grows about 500 varieties of camellias, including camellias that are not found outside the gates of temples and shrines, the retro Western-style building(exhibition building)designed by Magoichi Noguchi, and the specimen of the world’s largest flower, Amorphophallus titanum, which bloomed in the garden for the first time in the Kansai region.