In shortEvolution 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
40 min
The take
A short trail designed by Junichi Inada that walks you from the earliest plants to modern ones, past petrified wood and models of lepidodendrons. It holds the only moss collection in the Gardens, so look down as well as up.
Good to know
Free, inside the Gardens, which open 5am to midnight daily
Designed by Junichi Inada; the trail covers 3.5 billion years of plant evolution
Petrified wood, lepidodendron models and the Gardens' only moss collection
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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