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The effective use of daylighting in the design of buildings is encouraged by design communities for the benefits of sustainability through the application of the guidelines established by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). The Matthaei Botanical Garden Conservatory (MBGC) provides an indoor environment for plants from many regions of the world. The garden space is divided into three different thermal climatic conditions, namely tropical, temperate and arid. The results of one year measurements of variables essential to plants' growth within MBGC indicate that acclimatized plants could play a major role in daylight design integration. This study aims to provide data to support recommendations by the industry at large, to maintain a controlled environment in which plants can grow; the interaction of optical radiation with other environmental parameters needs to be integrated. The time series data provide new opportunities to examine and identify new optical sources suitable for plant culture in the absence of daylight as a source.