| 1877 | Foundation of University of Tokyo |
| 1886 | Establishment of the Imperial University |
| 1890 | Establishment of the College of Agriculture in the Imperial University |
| 1893 | Establishment of the Laboratory of Botany in the College of Agriculture, The Imperial University |
| 1897 | Laboratory of Botany in the College of Agriculture, The Imperial University of Tokyo |
| 1919 | Establishment of Faculty of Agriculture in the Imperial University of Tokyo |
| 1935 | Moving from Komaba to Yayoi campus |
| 1943 | Laboratory of Botany, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture, the Imperial University of Tokyo |
| 1949 | Laboratory of Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo |
| 1954 | Laboratory of Forest Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, the University of Tokyo |
| 1996 | Laboratory of Forest Botany, Section of Forest Life and Environmental Science, Department of Forest Botany, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo |
| 1893 | Mitsutaro SHIRAI | (botany, phytopathology) |
| 1899 | Seiichiro IKENO | (plant genetics, dendrology) |
| 1907 | Shunsuke KUSANO | (mycology, tree pathology |
| 1909 | Seiichiro IKENO | |
| 1927 | Kiichi MIYAKE | (plant physiology) |
| 1937 | Kiyoshi KOMINAMI | (mycology) |
| 1943 | Taizo INOKUMA | (forest botany, tree breeding) |
| 1965 | Satoru KURATRA | (forest botany, tree folklore) |
| 1979 | Toshio HAMAYA | (forest botany, dendrology) |
| 1989 | Kazuo SUZUKI | (forest botany, tree health science) |
| 2005 | Taizo HOGETSU | (forest molecular ecology, tree physiology) |
| 2015 | Kenji FUKUDA | (forest botany, tree health science) |
Laboratory of Forest Botany