The Institute of Science, Mumbai, formerly known as the Royal Institute of Science (RIS) was established in 1920 by the Royal Charter. It is a full- fledged premier post-graduate centre for teaching and research in science. The Institute did not have a medicinal garden to support the research practices of its students. In the early days of Botany & Environmental education students don’t find the enough sources of medicinal or herbal plants easily to study in depth like P. Hd. about a particular or verities of herbal plants at the same place, institute or campus.
IIFL foundation has created Medicinal Garden consisting of 1031 Herbal Plants of 86 Varieties, for the students who are studying Environment & Botany at The Institute of Science. It is the only Institute of its kind that can boast of having a botanical garden with rare plants, inside the campus, a rare phenomenon in Mumbai. So now the students of The Institute of Science especially from Environmental & Botany department can study 86 varieties of Shrubs, Flowering, Fruiting, Herbs & Creeper plants. Total number of 1031 plants are there in the garden.
