Plant Facilities

The garden is equipped with specialized facilities, including a greenhouse and shade house, designed to support the cultivation of a wide range of medicinal plants. These spaces provide controlled environments for growing both delicate and large plants, ensuring optimal conditions for research. The garden also supports plant specimen grinding, plant specimen processing, plant specimen drying, and plant specimen storage.

The garden’s resources are central to advancing our understanding of medicinal plants, from their growth and cultivation to their potential applications in drug development. Researchers at NCNPR can send orders to the garden to request specific quantities of plant materials, whether it’s leaves, stems, or flowers, for detailed analysis. The garden team then fulfills these orders, ensuring that the required plants are cultivated, harvested, and processed to meet the needs of each research project.

Our plant repository is a powerful resource for the discovery and development of bioactive natural products. It houses thousands of biomass specimens and prepared extracts from a wide range of plant species, supporting research into their therapeutic potential. These specimens, combined with the extensive databases developed through NCNPR’s research and development activities, provide critical tools for identifying and authenticating plant materials.