hainan tropical botanical garden

hainan tropical botanical garden

Hainan Tropical Botanical Garden includes Hainan Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden (Xinglong garden) and Hainan Danzhou Botanical Garden (Danzhou garden).

Hainan Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is a bright pearl of Hainan tourism development. It is famous for its unique and rich tropical plants. The botanical garden has tropical economic crops, forest and horticultural plant varieties, preserves wild plant resources and rare species, introduces precious tropical plant species at home and abroad, makes reasonable allocation, and combines with the alternate layout of beautiful landscape such as forest and grass. It is a comprehensive tropical garden with rich species resources, beautiful landscape, scientific research, popular science, sightseeing and plant germplasm resources protection Botanical Garden.

Hainan Danzhou tropical botanical garden is located in Baodao new village, Nada Town, Danzhou City, Hainan Province. Covering an area of 32 hectares, it was established in 1958. It is a herbarium of the former South China Institute of tropical crops (renamed as South China Tropical Agricultural University in 1996) and the Chinese Academy of tropical Agricultural Sciences (abbreviated as the two academies of Tropical Agriculture). On August 14, 2007, South China University of tropical agriculture and Hainan University merged. Since then, the botanical garden has been assigned to the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. There are more than 1000 kinds of rare tropical plants introduced from more than 40 countries in the botanical garden. It is not only the treasure house of tropical plant resources in China, but also the epitome of tropical crop resources in the world.

Hainan Tropical Botanical Garden is a very important tropical crop research and education base, experimental and demonstration base and species gene bank in tropical areas of China. It fills the gap of Hainan sightseeing agriculture and eco-tourism, and becomes the key unit of tropical agriculture investigation in China.

Historical evolution

Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden, located in Xinglong (18 ° 1 ′ n, 110 ° 13 ′ E), Southeast of Hainan Island, is affiliated to the Institute of tropical spice and beverage crops, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Ministry of agriculture. It covers an area of 600 mu and was founded in 1957. The botanical garden is a typical tropical monsoon climate, with well-developed natural vegetation, beautiful scenery, lush green sea, birds singing, delicate fruit fragrance, refreshing the world, making people feel relaxed and happy, and forget to return.

In the 1980s, it has become a famous tourist attraction in Hainan. In 1985, French experts came to our Institute for technical exchanges with scientific and technological personnel.

In 1991, it was registered in the National Tourism Administration as a major tourist spot, and it is a designated tourism unit in Hainan Province.

In 1998, it was selected as China's famous scenic spot by four units including the National Tourism Association, and was also selected as Hainan's excellent tourist spot.

On January 15, 1998, Estonian speaker Thomas Savi led members of Parliament to visit the botanical garden.

Francesco francelli, Secretary General of the world tourism organization, visited Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden on May 15, 1999, accompanied by Chen Chuanmin, director of Hainan Provincial Tourism Administration. We happily planted a bottle coconut in the botanical garden and named it "WTO".

On June 5, 2018, it was approved as a national 3A scenic spot.

Construction significance

Xinglongyuan botanical garden has tropical economic crops, forest and horticultural plant varieties, preserves wild plant resources and rare species, introduces domestic and foreign precious tropical plant species, makes reasonable allocation, combines with the alternate layout of beautiful landscape such as forest and grass, and is a comprehensive garden with rich species resources, beautiful landscape, scientific research, popular science, sightseeing and plant germplasm resources protection functions Tropical botanical garden.

Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is a very important tropical crop research and education base, experimental and demonstration base and species gene bank in tropical areas of China. It fills the gap of Hainan sightseeing agriculture and eco-tourism, and becomes a key unit of tropical agriculture investigation in China. It is also the first tropical botanical garden open to the public in Hainan.

As a high-grade, high-grade and high cultural added value tourist attraction in Hainan, van der Sar Xinglong Tropical Botanical Garden is the result of more than 40 years' construction of tropical spice and beverage crops Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences. The Institute has established a trinity development model of scientific research, development and ornamental Tourism, which is strongly supported and helped by the Ministry of technology, the Ministry of agriculture, Hainan Province and tourism departments. Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Yang Shangkun and other leaders of the Central Committee, ministries and commissions, and provincial leaders have visited and inspected many times, and highly praised and encouraged them. The botanical garden integrates scientific research, environmental protection, ecological agriculture and garden art. It embodies the economic and social benefits brought by the green ecological environment, and makes positive contributions to the development and construction of tropical tourism and agricultural resources in Hainan and the sustainable development of tropical efficient agriculture and tourism in Hainan.

Main attractions

Tourist area

Six tourist areas have been built: economic forest area, palm area, tropical fruit tree area, spices and medicinal materials area, ornamental flowers and trees area, woody oil area, and a garden of various rare plants. There are tropical "Guowang" mango, "guohou" Durian and cashew, one of the world's famous "four nuts"; there are also "human heart" fruit; rambutan with flesh spines on the skin; yolk fruit with flesh color and taste very similar to boiled egg yolk.

Economic forest area: ReZuo Liangyuan botanical garden not only has "famous trees" from all over the world: mahogany, mahogany, teak, sandalwood, red sandalwood, but also Hainan's native national protected endangered plants Qingmei, Polei, and even Hercules, which is stronger than water.

Spices and medicinal materials area: famous spice plants include yilanxiang, king of flowers, xianglancao, king of food spices, tuluxiang, clove, cinnamon and xiangmaocao.

Woody oil region: many famous oil plants have come to settle down. Such as oil palm, oil mangosteen, Camellia oleifera, Ma Fu oil. There are many kinds of medicinal plants. There are some world-famous anticancer plants, such as Cephalotaxus hainanensis and myrtle, as well as the well-known pangdahai, nux vomica and aloes.

Viewing Area

In the ReZuo Liangyuan botanical garden, there are many kinds of plants. Among them, the most unforgettable one is the most poisonous plant in the world, blood sealed throat. There are bread tree, sausage tree, cantaloupe tree, aquatic plant Wang Lian and so on. There are 42 rare and endangered plants and 500 tropical flowers under state protection. There are more than 1000 kinds of rare tropical plants in more than 40 countries in the botanical garden. It is not only the treasure house of tropical plant resources in China, but also the epitome of tropical plant resources in the world.

Antiaris toxicaria, also known as curculiaria and scissor tree, is an endangered plant protected by the state and one of the most poisonous plant species in the world. The sap is milky white and highly toxic. Once the fluid flows into the blood through the wound, it is life-threatening. The ancients often painted it on the arrow to shoot wild animals or fight. It is also known as curculiaria. It belongs to Moraceae and belongs to the genus Aristolochia. The height of the tree can reach 40 meters. It blooms in spring and summer, and bears red fruits like small pears in autumn. It turns purple black when it matures. The fruit tastes bitter, poisonous and inedible. It is distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. Sap is highly toxic and has cardiotonic effect. Rare species under second class national protection.

Address: College of tropical agriculture of China, Nada Town, dingdanzhou City, Hainan Province

Longitude: 109.58081054688

Latitude: 19.521133422852

Tel: 0898-23300195

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