Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden

Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden
Type	Botanical garden
Coordinates	22°57′45″S 30°27′54″E / 22.96250°S 30.46500°E / -22.96250; 30.46500
Area	83.05 ha
Designated	5 November 2021; 3 years ago (2021-11-05)
Administered by	South African National Biodiversity Institute
Website	Thohoyandou - SANBI
Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden (Limpopo)

The Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden is located in the north-east of Limpopo province, South Africa. The garden is the 11th national botanical garden and principally hosts endemic plants from the Soutpansberg region.

In 1986, the Venda government established the garden. In 2017, it was transferred to SANBI, and made a national botanical garden in 2021.^[1][2]

An endemic forest consisting of Acacia and Ficus dominates the hilly Soutpansberg landscape.^[1]

The garden hosts a number of species of birds:^[3]

• African wood owl

• Pink-throated twinspot
• Bar-throated apalis
• Bearded scrub-robin
• Black sparrowhawk
• Blue-spotted wood dove
• Gorgeous bushshrike
• Green-backed twinspot
• Narina trogon
• Red-capped robin-chat

• Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden Virtual Tour

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