wuhan botanical garden

Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded in 1956, is one of the three national core botanical gardens integrating scientific research, species conservation, popular science education and leisure tourism. It has collected and cultivated more than 10293 species of plant resources in Central China and terrestrial aquatic plants in China. It is the most abundant plant species diversity and Germplasm Resources Conservation base in Central China The world's largest aquatic plant resource nursery and kiwifruit germplasm resource nursery. Wuhan Botanical Garden is a national AAAA scenic spot. It has been rated as the national popular science education base, the National Youth Science and technology education base, the popular science education, environmental education and patriotism education base in Hubei Province and Wuhan city. (1) Dutch tulip show the largest tulip flower show in Central China with the most complete varieties will be held in Wuhan Botanical Garden on the eve of the Spring Festival. More than 60 European varieties such as "night queen", "Prince", "angel", "PRISMA", "flower of the city" and "Princess Alani" are displayed in this tulip flower exhibition. Nearly one million tulips are as red as fire, yellow as gold and white as snow. The elegant and noble tulip fragrance is all over the garden, interspersed with lake windmills and unique wooden shoes The scene, rippling in the sea of flowers, takes you to the other side of the ocean, the fairy tale spring like kukenhof. The flower show will last until April. (2) Lanyun Tiancheng orchid exhibition brings together colorful tropical orchids from all over the world to make the lush tropical rain forest landscape of Wuhan Botanical Garden more beautiful. In the tropical orchid exhibition area, the rare orchids from Hawaii, Colombia, Malaysia and Singapore, such as Paphiopedilum, Paphiopedilum, spider orchid, octopus orchid, centipede orchid and pigeon orchid, meet the public for the first time. In the cold winter, you can enjoy these colorful tropical plants and have a unique taste. (3) As the saying goes, "enjoy peony in March in Guyu" and "peach blossom in March is beautiful", Wuhan Botanical Garden uses flowering regulation to make peach blossom, which represents auspicious, rich and prosperous, open earlier. Peach blossoms will bloom one after another, up to 24 varieties, from the earliest mountain peach blossom to the latest purple peach blossom, with different and colorful posture, which can last for a long time

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Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Wuhan Botanical Garden generally refers to Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, is a comprehensive scientific research institution integrating scientific research, species conservation and popular science education. It is one of the three core science botanical gardens in China, and also a national AAAA tourist attraction.

Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded in 1956 in November 1958. It was transferred to Hubei Province in 1972 and renamed Hubei Institute of Botany. In 1978, it returned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and renamed Wuhan Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2003, it was renamed Wuhan Botanical garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In December 2017, it was selected into the list of the first batch of national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education bases and camps of the Ministry of education.

Historical evolution

On September 13, 1956, the Preparatory Committee of Wuhan Botanical Garden was established with 14 members, including Zhang Wencai, Wan Liuyi, sun Xiangzhong and Liu Wenhua.

On October 30, 1956, No. 1098 document of Wuhan Urban Planning Committee approved the acquisition of land in Moshan area by Wuhan Botanical Garden.

On November 12, 1956, the Preparatory Committee of Wuhan Botanical Garden took over the East Lake Moshan botanical garden.

In January 1958, Professor Chen fenghuai came from Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden to Wuhan Botanical Garden as director.

On November 11, 1958, approved by the 12th executive meeting of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan Botanical Garden was named by the Preparatory Committee of Wuhan Botanical Garden.

Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences was renamed Wuhan Botanical Garden of South China Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On July 1, 1972, Wuhan value garden was renamed Hubei Institute of Botany, which belongs to the leadership of Hubei Province.

On June 22, 1978, kefajizi (78) 0896, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hubei Institute of Botany returned to Chinese Academy of Sciences and named it Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Under the dual leadership of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hubei Province, Hubei Institute of Botany is a local division level unit.

On December 18, 1978, kefajizi (78) No. 2021 of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was renamed Wuhan Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the botanical garden is a subsidiary of Wuhan Institute of Botany.

In November 2002, it was awarded "national AAAA tourist attraction".

On October 16, 2003, Wuhan Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences was renamed Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

On June 13, 2005, Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences was named as "National Youth advanced science and technology world science and technology activity demonstration base" by Chinese Academy of Sciences of Chinese Communist Youth League Central Committee and National Youth Work Committee

On October 31, 2005, the park was designated as the national popular science education base of wild plant protection by China Wild Plant Protection Association.

In January 2011, Wuhan Wuyuan was approved to set up "Hubei energy conservation and environmental protection industry wetland ecological restoration and scientific management technology innovation base".

geographical environment

Location context

Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, on the shore of East Lake and the south foot of Moshan mountain. It is 14 ° 24 ′ E and 30 ° 33 ′ n, with an altitude of 19 ~ 35m. The whole park covers an area of 70 hectares.

Climate conditions

Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is located in Hubei Province, China. It has a typical subtropical monsoon humid climate with abundant light energy, abundant heat, long frost free period, abundant precipitation and hot and rainy seasons. The average annual temperature of the botanical garden is 16.3 ℃, the average monthly temperature in January is 3.7 ℃, the average monthly temperature in July is 28.8 ℃, the extreme low temperature is - 18.1 ℃ (jan.1977), the extreme high temperature is 41.3 ℃ (jul.1934), and the average annual rainfall is 1282mm.

Preservation of plants

According to the information on the official website of the botanical garden in March 2016, Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as a comprehensive research base for China's national plant resources reserve and ex situ plant protection, has collected 11726 species of protected plant resources, and built the world's largest kiwifruit special garden covering the most extensive genetic resources, the world's largest aquatic plant resource garden, and the largest wild forest fruit genetic resource special garden in Central China There are 16 special gardens with special characteristics, such as the garden of ancient relic and unique rare plant resources in Central China, the garden of medicinal plants in Central China.

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Main attractions

Flower path Plaza

Huajing square is the first scene of Wuhan Botanical Garden innovation project. It is located in the center of the axis of the botanical garden. The traffic is connected in all directions. Visitors can enter tropical plant greenhouse, Rhododendron Garden, medicine garden and other special parks through the corridor.

 

Kiwifruit Garden

The kiwifruit special garden covers an area of 4 hectares. It has collected and preserved 51 species and subspecies taxa, 20 varieties and 88 domestic and foreign varieties (lines) of Actinidia, including soft jujube and hairy flower. It has obtained nearly 20000 intraspecific and interspecific hybrid germplasm resources. In 2008, it cooperated with Lushan Botanical Garden and Yunnan horticultural institute to establish a germplasm resource sub garden, and preserved species adapted to different ecological conditions .

 

Aquatic plant garden

The aquatic plant garden is mainly composed of several exhibition areas. From the slope bank to the center of the pond, 110 species of aquatic plants of different ecotypes, such as sarcandra rotundifolia and Polygonum ovale, hygrophytes and emergent plants, floating plants such as Sophora japonica and Eichhornia crassipes, floating plants such as Poppy and Brasenia schreberi, submerged plants such as Potamogeton crispus, Potamogeton crispus, and water hyacinth, were arranged in the exhibition area The plant community exhibition area is the first one that integrates species conservation and popular science exhibition in China, with more than 35 species of aquatic plants throughout the year; the wetland plant community exhibition area simulates biogas habitat, and displays the wetland plant communities of Alisma, Cyperus, Juncus, yujiuhua, Sagittaria and other rare and endangered aquatic plants such as water fern, water leek, wild rice, water grass, honeysuckle In the lake ecological area, there are not only amphibious plant community of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, large emergent plant community of Phragmites australis and Typha, but also floating leaf plant community of water lily and submerged plant community of Ceratophyllum demersum, Hydrilla verticillata and Potamogeton crispus. In addition, there are lotus variety preservation area and exhibition area, aquatic greenhouse, aquatic plant germplasm resource nursery and water lily variety preservation area.

 

Special garden of medicinal plants

Built in 1956, the park covers an area of about 3.5 hectares, including 1000 square meters of land

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