Lancetilla Botanical Garden is a botanical garden and significant tourist attraction located on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, in the north of the Republic of Honduras, about 7 km southeast of the city of Tela.
The Botanical Garden is a department of the National University of Forest Sciences (UNACIFOR).
Its international recognition code as a botanical institution, as well as its herbarium acronym is LANCE.
The collection includes about 1500 species focused mainly on tropical plants with fruits.
[3] Several administrative and research buildings mostly preserve architectural style of the 1930s and 1940s, when the Garden was owned by the banana company United Fruit Company.