Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden

Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden

Shanghai Chen Shan botanical garden, located at No. 3888, Chenhua Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, was opened to the public on January 23, 2011. It was jointly built by Shanghai municipal government, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Forestry Administration and Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences. It is an AAAA comprehensive botanical garden integrating scientific research, popular science and sightseeing.

The botanical garden of the park is divided into four functional areas, namely, exhibition area, plant conservation area, five continents botanical area and peripheral buffer area, covering an area of 2.08 million square meters. It is the largest botanical garden in East China and the second botanical garden in Shanghai.

geographical environment

Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden

Chen Shanghai Botanical Garden is located at no.3888, Chenhua Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai. It is located in Sheshan National Tourist Resort. The central coordinates of the botanical garden are N31 ° 04 ′ 48.10 ″ N and E121 ° 11 ′ 5.76 ″ E.

Historical evolution

Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden

Chen Shang Shanghai Botanical Garden, located at No. 3888, Chenhua Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, is located in Sheshan National Tourist Resort. It was opened to the public on January 23, 2011. Covering an area of 2076300 square meters, it is the largest botanical garden in East China

. The botanical garden is jointly built by Shanghai municipal government, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Forestry Administration and Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences. It is a comprehensive botanical garden integrating scientific research, popular science and sightseeing

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Chenshan mountain is one of the nine peaks in Songjun county (called "nine peaks between clouds" in Shanghai gazetteer). It belongs to Sheshan mountain system, with an altitude of about 70 meters

. According to the records of Dong Qichang in Ming Dynasty, Chenshan is "in the southeast of the mountains, next to Chenwei", which also gets its name. In the 20th century, the south slope of the mountain was cut off because of quarrying. In the design of the botanical garden, this part was transformed into a mine garden.

Development and construction

On August 29, 2005, the Shanghai Municipal People's government and the Chinese Academy of Sciences signed a working agreement on jointly building Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden

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On April 21, 2007, the construction of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden started

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On April 26, 2010, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden opened to the outside world. The opening ceremony was held at the south entrance square of the botanical garden.

On January 22, 2011, the greenhouse of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden was completed and opened to the public

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On January 23, 2011, the park officially opened

. On April 30, 2011, the number of visitors to the botanical garden reached 1 million.

In October 2011, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden became one of the first batch of national tourism service standardization pilot units

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In April 2012, the botanical garden was selected as "Shanghai international cultural exchange base"

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On April 24, 2012, Chenshan Botanical Garden officially named the Mulan garden funded by 27 academicians as "wisdom garden"

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On April 28, 2012, Shanghai plant stress biology research center of Chinese Academy of Sciences held the opening ceremony of the construction in the botanical garden. The completed research center will be located in the park.

Major parks

Quarry Garden

The mine garden of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden is one of the scenic spots of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden. It is located in the northwest corner of Chenshan Botanical Garden, adjacent to the northwest entrance. It is designed by Professor Zhu Yufan of Tsinghua University, Qingyuan Depu Floating Bridge Co., Ltd

Build. The original site of the mine belongs to waterfall, graben, plank road, water curtain cave, etc., which are closely combined with the natural terrain to deepen people's understanding of nature. The use of the status quo of the mountain texture, depth of carving, so that it has the shape and artistic conception of Chinese landscape painting. Mine garden highlights the theme of restoration garden, which is the leading garden in China.

The mine garden covers an area of about 39000 square meters. It used to be the West Mine of Chenshan quarry. According to the original ecological landform, it has been transformed into four areas: Jinghu District, Taiping District, Wanghua District and Shentan district. There are more than 1000 kinds of trees, low shrubs and herbs with excellent ornamental characteristics in mine garden, including Rosaceae, Lycoris, loniceraceae, Malvaceae, Verbenaceae, Malvaceae, Compositae, etc.

As early as the early 1950s to the mid-1980s, the south slope of Chenshan mountain was used as a site for mining construction stone. After quarrying, two quarry sites, East and West, were left. After the west side of the quarry is mined, it digs deep underground, more than 60 meters deep into the ground, forming an artificial deep pool with an area of 10000 square meters. The water surface of the pool is more than 30 meters above the ground, more than 30 meters deep, and the cliff is 30 to 100 meters high.

In Taiwan area, the existing mine sites are fully utilized. The original retaining walls are broken and reconstructed on the edge of the platform, and some areas are covered with rusty steel plates. On the basis of the existing bamboo forest in Taiwan, a secret garden space is formed, in which the negative ornamental flowers are planted and the positive ornamental flowers are planted on the edge of the outer platform. The main flowering plants and flowers in autumn, such as Sapindus mukorossi, Acer truncatum, Liriodendron chinense and Koelreuteria paniculata, were planted.

In Wanghua District, the existing Metasequoia glyptostroboides forest is used as the partition barrier between the special garden and the external space, and a large number of flowering trees and shrubs and ground cover flowers are planted. The plant species here are: cherry, Magnolia, Michelia, Mallow, Podocarpus, Qionghua, camellia, hydrangea, Rhododendron, dogwood, etc.

Taking Jinghu as the center, Jinghu District has the necessary sightseeing path as the viewing space and sightseeing space, which is the core of organizing and coordinating the whole site. In Jinghu Lake, there are emergent plants such as anemone and Lythrum. Along the coast, there are ornamental plants such as Lagerstroemia indica, Buddleja, Hemarthria and Echinacea.

North American flora

North America and Mainland China belong to the subtropical monsoon climate on the east coast of the Chinese mainland. The North American plant area of Mount Chen botanical garden in Shanghai is planted in North America with vertical forests and flowers, such as willow oak, North American red oak, Acer negundo, North American Liriodendron, North American Liquidambar, Canada redbud, North American Sequoia, hickory, Taxus chinensis, and American coconus. American Cotinus coggygria. The North American flora adopts the western landscape design and the trapezoid of large area geometry.

Aquatic Botanical Garden

The aquatic botanical garden is the most diverse and concentrated area in Chenshan Botanical Garden. The aquatic botanical garden displays abundant species and types of aquatic plants, including 8 pools: ornamental aquatic plant pool, Chinese important aquatic plant pool, floating leaf plant pool, submerged plant pool, edible aquatic plant pool, Gramineae and Cyperaceae plant pool, Alismataceae plant pool and Nymphaeaceae plant pool.

Tropical Exhibition Greenhouse

The exhibition greenhouse is located in gate 2 in the northeast corner of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden. It is a greenhouse group composed of three single temperature rooms: tropical flower and fruit hall, sand plant hall and rare plant hall, with a total area of 12608 square meters. Among them, the tropical flower and fruit Museum covers an area of 5521 square meters, up to 21 meters, and is composed of amorous garden, palm square and economic plant area; the sand plant Museum covers an area of 4320 square meters, up to 19 meters, collecting and displaying sand plants from Australia, Africa and America respectively; the rare plant Museum covers an area of 2767 square meters, up to 16 meters, collecting and displaying peculiar types of plant survival and evolution Such as tropical rain forest phenomenon, insectivorous plants, cycads, ferns, orchids and pineapples, etc.

The exhibition greenhouse is closely related to the "green ring" topography of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, and its plane shape and spatial form are completely consistent with the bending changes and ups and downs of the "green ring". The architectural form of the exhibition greenhouse is unique. It adopts arc-shaped large-span aluminum alloy single-layer reticulated shell structure, covered by triangular block laminated glass, light and transparent. The automatic climate control system used in the exhibition greenhouse creates a suitable environment for plants from all over the world. It has become an important facility for scientific research, popular science education, horticultural exhibition and biodiversity protection of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden.

Little Zoo

Chenshan Botanical Garden joins hands with the zoo to create a "Mini Zoo" to show the harmonious coexistence of native animals and plants. Chenshan Botanical Garden provides plant technical support for the ecological transformation of wildlife cages, and provides specific places such as mountain forests, lakes and grasslands for wild animals for small-scale domestication. Shanghai Zoo provides Chenshan Botanical Garden with wildlife suitable for specific habitats, enriching biodiversity and food chain. Small animals include mandarin duck, alpaca, peacock, black swan, mallard, miniature pig and goat.

Ornamental grass garden

Ornamental grass is a kind of beautiful and colorful herbs, including Compositae, Labiatae, Gramineae, Liliaceae, Cyperaceae, Cannaceae, Verbenaceae, Agave, Araceae, Commelinaceae, Salicaceae and other multi family herbs. Ornamental grasses are a large group of people, and their ornamental features are usually reflected in shape, color, texture and many other aspects.

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