South China Botanical Garden was built in 1956, covering 4,500 mu, which is the national biggest botanical garden featuring south Asia tropical plant. It maintains academic exchange and seed exchange with 300 botanical gardens and tree gardens in 60 nations and regions. There are around 5,000 kinds of imported plants from home and abroad, which is the scientific research base for introduction, promotion and application of economic plants in tropical and semitropical zones as well as reservation of rare plants in severe danger. The great amount of plants here, together with Mountain Baiyun, provides fresh air for Guangzhou City. Green natural environment, beautiful gardens and rich botanical knowledge have made Botanical Garden an ideal place for public leisure and botanical knowledge popularization. In botanical garden, tourists can learn knowledge about plants. Moreover, they can realize protecting plant resources is as important as that protecting wild animals, to protect the plant world people depend on.
Because of the irreplaceable function of South China Botanical Garden in plant research and knowledge popularization, it has been awarded titles like “Nationwide Youth Science Popularization Education Base”, “Guangdong Environment Education Base” and “Guangzhou Environment Education Base”.
Since the opening to the public in 1980, South China Botanical Garden received visitors and scholars in and out of China; the number of visitors has reached 700,000 annual. The elegant and comely natural sceneries of the garden were reviewed as one of the “Eight New Sceneries Spots of Guangzhou” in 1986. It was called “Dragon Cave Kylin”.
The Garden includes two major parts—popular science exhibit and scientific research experiment zones. The popular science exhibition covers 1,000 mu, including 16 different gardens like palm zone, living fossil zone, tropical greenhouse, orchid garden and cycad garden according to natural laws and aesthetical principle, among which the collection categories in magnolia and ginger gardens are leading in the world also with advanced research results. There are also field operation club, fishing club, boat club, canteen and rest house in the exhibition zone, which is an ideal place for people to return to nature.
There are also multi-flower garden of 80,000 square meters, including tea garden, azalea garden and grand myrtle garden, which is specialized in sculpt of the plants. In the east of the park, there are fun stone garden, lava and metamorphic rock, with different styles and colors. |
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