Xuzhou Botanical Garden

Xuzhou Botanical Garden

Xuzhou botanical garden is located in the north of the Second Ring Road, covering an area of 600 mu, including 385 mu in the East Garden and 215 mu in the west garden. It was built and opened on September 29, 2012. It is a comprehensive botanical garden integrating plant protection, scientific research, popular science education and tourism.

According to its functions, Xuzhou botanical garden is divided into five areas: special plant park, tree park, bonsai Park, popular science education area of ornamental greenhouse and flower trade exhibition area.

Historical evolution

In 1958, Xuzhou botanical garden began to investigate, collect, introduce and cultivate plant resources in Xuzhou and its surrounding areas;

In 2011, Xuzhou botanical garden began to rebuild on the basis of Xuzhou nursery;

The park was completed and opened on September 29, 2012.

geographical environment

geographical position

Xuzhou botanical garden is located in the south of Jiuli mountain. Pingshan road runs across it. With convenient transportation, it is rebuilt on the basis of Xuzhou nursery. It is located between 116 ° 22 ′ - 118 ° 40 ′ E and 33 ° 43 ′ - 34 ° 58 ′ n.

Climate conditions

Xuzhou botanical garden has a warm temperate semi humid monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. There is no severe heat in summer and no severe cold in winter. The annual temperature is 14 ℃, the annual sunshine hours are 2284 to 2495 hours, the sunshine rate is 52% to 57%, the annual frost free period is 200 to 220 days, the annual precipitation is 800 to 930 mm, and the precipitation in rainy season accounts for 56% of the whole year.

plant resources

There are more than 700 kinds of plants planted in the botanical garden, including 477 species of trees and shrubs in 79 families and 294 species of ground cover in 72 families. According to the efficacy, there are 201 species in 29 categories; 31 species of palms planted in greenhouse; 96 species of ground cover flowers; 138 species of shrubs in the middle and lower layers; 29 species of ferns; 47 species of orchids; 77 species of pineapples; 230 species of Succulents; 82 species of rare and exotic species; 28 species of vines; 17 species of aquatic species.

Xuzhou botanical garden is endowed with the function of plant science popularization base. In addition to collecting the existing common plants in Xuzhou, it also introduces some tropical, subtropical and rainforest plants.

Main attractions

Yulan Garden

Magnolia garden is mainly composed of Magnolia grandiflora, Magnolia grandiflora, Magnolia grandiflora, Magnolia grandiflora, Magnolia violacea, Magnolia Erqiao and Magnolia Wangchun. Magnolia looks like a lotus flower. When it is in full bloom, its petals spread to all directions, making the courtyard blue and white and dazzling white. It has high ornamental value.

Pharmaceutical Garden

A herbal medicine garden is set up in the park, with reference to Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica to arrange common insect and herbal plants; at the same time, a common prescription garden and a popular science corridor are designed in the park, so as to popularize popular science knowledge in the form popular with the masses. There are more than 50 varieties in this garden.

Botanical Garden Flower Stone Market

The market mainly deals in: fine flowers, bonsai, green plants, ornamental fish, aquarium, rare stone, jade, root carving, garden supplies, porcelain, mahogany furniture and craft gifts, etc., which can basically meet the needs of the general public to beautify the living environment and improve the taste of life.

Ornamental greenhouse

The viewing greenhouse is a comprehensive exhibition hall integrating science popularization, sightseeing, scientific research and other functions. The exhibition hall is located on the central axis of the botanical garden. The greenhouse is 72 meters long, 48 meters wide and 18 meters high. The total building area of the whole natural ecological management is 3456 square meters. It is a steel structure framework with transparent glass, and it stands like a "green box" on the axis of the south entrance of the botanical garden. The viewing greenhouse is divided into five exhibition areas, including tropical rain forest area, tropical fruit tree area, succulent plant area, southern customs area and aquatic plant area. Each area is connected by a one-way ring road. Small bridges and flowing water, caves and waterfalls, overhead corridors, etc. are conducive to visitors from various angles. It is an important popular science education base for people to understand plants, feel nature and learn plant knowledge. It is also an important base for people to enter the world It is an important place for plant resources protection and scientific research.

More than 850 species and thousands of rare tropical and subtropical plants have been introduced into the ornamental greenhouse. The precious plants here are eye opening. There are more than 60 people in the room.

Arboretum on the south edge of warm temperate zone

The characteristics of plants in the southern margin of warm temperate zone are mainly broad-leaved tree species. 14 species, 13 genera and 8 families of plants in the southern margin of warm temperate zone were introduced. The main representative tree species are: Cinnamomum camphora of Lauraceae, loquat of Rosaceae, Prunus ziyeensis, cherry blossom, Malus Xifu, Malus chuisi and papaya.

Local Arboretum

Native tree species garden is a natural distribution of tree species in Xuzhou and has been introduced for many years and has been good performance in the local exotic tree species. Native tree species are generally distributed in the urban-rural fringe, suburban ridge, urban park hillside, mountain top and scenic area, which are indispensable tree species for greening and beautifying the city.

Pine and cypress Garden

The gymnosperms are concentrated in one garden to form a unique ginkgo pine and cypress garden, which forms a thick, meaningful, dense and straight landscape effect in the form of clumps or solitary plants. The main plant species are Abies liaotungensis, Abies fargesii, spruce, Picea koraiensis, white, green, Larix principis rupprechtii, Larix gmelinii, Larix olgensis, Pinus tabulaeformis, Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica, Pinus bungeana, Pinus armandii, Juniperus chinensis, Juniperus mongolica, Sabina vulgaris, etc. at the same time, plants of birch family, Tiliaceae, beech family, hazelnaceae and other families and genera are planted.

Colorful leaf garden

The color leaf garden is mainly planted with color leaf tree species and autumn foliage tree species. The main varieties are Acer negundo, Acer negundo, Acer truncatum, Acer truncatum and other plants. At the same time, it is also planted with families and genera such as lacqueraceae, Melilotus, Berberidaceae, Betulaceae, beech, etc.

Mini-Scape Garden

Basin garden is the unique content of Chinese botanical garden, so it should have the style and interest of Chinese classical garden. Therefore, this plan adopts courtyard layout, which combines bonsai with Garden Road, and the bonsai displayed is mainly mountain and stone bonsai.

Rose Garden

For planting Rosaceae plants, evergreen plants are selected to separate the space. According to the different ornamental effect, peach and plum garden, plum and Begonia Garden, rose garden, etc.

Garden Information

admission ticket

Charging standard of ornamental greenhouse in Xuzhou Botanical Garden

Traffic information

Take bus No.6 to Xuzhou Botanical Garden Station.

Or take bus No.17 and get off at Jiulishan nursery station.

Park value

In order to speed up the development space of Xuzhou botanical garden, better carry out the protection of plant diversity and the research, utilization and development of plant germplasm resources, promote the sustainable development of society, enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of Xuzhou City, and improve the urban ecological environment, On December 15, 2012, it signed an agreement with the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of Jiangsu Province (Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden) to jointly build the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of Jiangsu Province Xuzhou branch and Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden Xuzhou branch. Strive to build Xuzhou botanical garden into "five bases": Achievement Transformation and application base of Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiangsu Province; national first-class research base of biodiversity conservation, ex situ plant protection and plant germplasm resources; plant research, ecosystem and landscape system research and horticultural cultivation technology and landscape construction demonstration base in Northern Jiangsu Province; Jiangsu Province And the national popular science education base; the cradle of professional research talents and technical talents in plant science and ecological science; and the ecotourism base integrating beautiful landscape, good environment, leisure and entertainment.

Park Construction

According to the function, the whole park is divided into five areas: plant special park, tree park, bonsai Park, viewing greenhouse science education area, flower trade exhibition area.

The botanical garden includes a variety of plant types, mainly Rosaceae plants with northern characteristics, with peach, Begonia, rose, plum, cherry and fruit trees divided into small areas. In addition, there are many special small parks, such as sweet clover garden, magnolia garden, grass garden, cypress garden, colorful leaf garden, bamboo garden, aquatic grass garden and medicinal plant garden. According to the shape of the plants and the surrounding environment, tall trees and dense forests are arranged along the boundary of the classification garden to act as a barrier, and low shrubs are arranged along the water bank, which are dense and dense. There are sparse forests and grasslands near the greenhouse to provide good activity and visual space for visitors.

The arboretum mainly conserves the local tree species resources in Xuzhou, and is planted according to the varieties and combined with the landscape construction methods. The arboretum is specially designated as the south edge Arboretum of warm temperate plants, and there is also a parent-child garden in the arboretum.

Basin is a special garden landscape that integrates the storage, cultivation, teaching and display of bonsai art, covering an area of about 750 square meters. There are mainly six schools of Bonsai: Sichuan school, Yang school, Su school, Shanghai school, Lingnan School and Hui school.

The popular science education area mainly consists of exhibition greenhouses, covering an area of about 3500 square meters. There are more than 800 varieties in the area, including succulent plants, tropical flowers and aromatic plants, tropical pteridophytes, tropical rain forest plants, fruit energy plants, aquatic plants, cycads and pineapples exhibition area, rare plants Exhibition area, palm exhibition area, etc Electricity shows the growth process of plants.

Management measures

In the whole park, pavilions, flower racks, benches and other rest areas are set up according to local conditions to facilitate tourism

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