In shortEthnobotany Garden, Botanic Gardens is free to enter and open daily from 5am to 11.59pm, at 1 Cluny Road, Bukit Timah. Checked November 2026.
Nature · free
Duration
45 min
The take
More than 300 species in four zones that show how people have used plants: for medicine, for building a home, for eating, and the ones that mattered to hunter-gatherers. Take the activity sheet NParks publishes if you have children along.
Good to know
Free, inside the Gardens, which open 5am to midnight daily
Over 300 species across four zones
Zones cover folk medicine, house building, food and plants of cultural meaning to hunter-gatherers
Finding it: Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road. Botanic Gardens MRT, on the Circle and Downtown lines, is one of the nearest stations, then a walk through the Gardens
Hours checked November 2026
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