Oaxtepec botanical garden
Jardín botánico de Oaxtepec
- Date
- c. 1460 · confidence medium
- Place
- Oaxtepec, Yautepec, Morelos, Mexico
- Credited to
- Moctezuma I (Mexica)
- People
- 👤 Moctezuma Ilhuicamina1398–1469
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A garden with plants brought from across the Mexica empire, acclimatised for medicinal and ornamental use and studied by physicians. It predates the European botanical gardens of Padua and Pisa by almost a century.
Described by chroniclers such as Durán and Cortés.
What it led to
- Mexica medical herbalism
- the studies of Francisco Hernández (1571-1577)