Rimba Ilmu (literally forest of knowledge) is a tropical botanical garden set up by the late Professor W.R. Stanton in 1974 on the campus of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[1][2]

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Rimba Ilmu Botanical Gardens
Entrance to Rimba Ilmu, University of Malaya
Coordinates	3°7′51.85″N 101°39′28.67″E
Area	80 hectares (0.80 km2)
Established	1974; 50 years ago (1974)
Owned by	University of Malaya
Administered by	Institute of Biological Sciences
Website	rimba.um.edu.my

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The garden has over 1,600 species of plants occupying over 80 hectares.^[3] It is populated mainly with indigenous plants species but include many from tropical Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia, South America, Africa and Madagascar.

The Malaysian Nature Society maintains an environmental program with the cooperation of the university at the botanical garden since 1997.^{[citation needed]}