Seethawaka Botanical Garden

Invertebrates Flora Botanical gardens Civil societies Seethawaka Botanical Garden, or Seethawaka Wet Zone Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located in Sri Lanka which mainly serves as a research area and a conservation area for threatened and vulnerable endemic plant species in the Sinharaja Rain Forest region.

Improving export floriculture, ex situ conservation of wet lowland plants, and bamboo cultivation are also promoted in this garden.

The construction of the Botanical garden commenced in 2008 and it was formally opened to the public in October 2014.

[3] Seethawaka Botanical Garden is situated on the Puwakpitiya-Thummodara road, at Illukowita, adjacent to the Indikada Mukalana Forest Reserve at Avissawella.

A beautiful stream flows through the garden, which sustains the existence of various wet zone plants.