Nurzhan Municipal Botanical Institute

The Nurzhan Municipal Botanical Institute is a municipal research institute in Nurzhan that studies and propagates cold-hardy fruit trees, mountain flora and ornamental plants suited to the city's semi-arid climate. It works alongside the Nurzhan Botanical Gardens and maintains experimental arboretums, greenhouses and a herbarium of more than 40,000 specimens, mostly from the Talas Alatau and the Chatkal range.^[1]

Its collections include wild apple and walnut from the Chatkal forests and Arslanbob, which it maintains as a living gene bank. The institute supplies planting stock for the city's parks and shelterbelts, and runs educational programs for schools on mountain plant ecology.^[1]

References

1. ^ Nurzhan Municipal Botanical Institute (2020). Catalogue of the Herbarium and Living Collections. Nurzhan.