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The National Cactus and Succulent Botanical Garden and Research Centre, known as the Cactus Garden, is a cactus garden in Sector 5 of Panchkula, Haryana, India.
It has more than 3,500 species of cactus, many of them endangered, including Opuntias (prickly pears and chollas), Ferocactus (barrels), other succulents include Agaves, columnar (column-shaped) cacti, Echinocereus (hedgehogs), and Mammillarias (pincushions) and is the largest of its kind in Asia.
The garden was opened in 2004 with 500 plants from the collection of Tarsem Lal, and founded by J S Sarkaria, whose son later lamented the lack of expert care the plants were receiving.
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