Garden botanical garden

Garden botanical garden

The garden botanical garden is located in Wanshi mountain in the southeast corner of Xiamen Island, commonly known as Wanshi botanical garden. It is an important part of Gulangyu Wanshi mountain national key scenic spot. It is one of the first batch of national AAAA tourist areas (spots), covering an area of 5.23 square kilometers.

brief introduction

The park receives more than one million visitors annually, and passed the demonstration of ISO14001 and ISO9001 system in 2002.

In 1984, Comrade Deng Xiaoping planted a big leaf Cinnamomum camphora in the nanyangshan lawn. It has become a place for people to remember a great man. Xiamen botanical garden is a well-known tourist attraction in Southern Fujian with three characteristics of natural landscape, cultural landscape and plant landscaping. The science popularization education practice base of the botanical garden is a national science popularization practice base, with plant seed Specimen Exhibition Hall, butterfly and insect specimen exhibition hall, and 3000 square meters of experimental field for students to carry out science popularization practice. It can provide places and tourism projects for various types of students' science popularization Tour, ecological summer camp, winter camp, spring and autumn tour and other student team activities, unit training and group activities.

Xiamen botanical garden is located in the southeast of Zhongshan Park, north of Shishan and Wulaofeng. Built in 1960, there are about 1.8 million trees and shrubs in the garden. There are various parks of famous tropical and Subtropical Botanical Gardens, and there are various kinds of rock landscapes on Wanshi mountain, covering an area of 26 square kilometers, including botanical garden area of 2.27 hectares, lawn area of 1.5 hectares, and green space area of 213.6 hectares. Each park of the botanical garden is surrounded by Wanshi lake, which is decorated with Chinese style garden layout. Under the valley in the southeast of Wanshi lake, there is a beautiful flower hall with fragrance in all seasons. There are five exhibition rooms, corridors, curved bridges and waterside pavilions in series, surrounded by an oval lotus pool. In the left and right rooms, there are more than 200 kinds of exotic flowers and plants on display: cattleyan, 16 varieties of taro, pitcher grass that can eat small animals (it has cages on its branches, the cage mouth is high, small animals will come and smother it as soon as they fall in), high-grade spice mysterious fruit, Oncidium, etc.

In the cactus garden, the cactus "golden ball stinging tiger" has been cultivated for more than 20 years. The diameter of the sphere is 70 cm, ranking the first in China. "Golden ball Cihu" is the most attractive representative species of cactus. The ball is green, the thorn is hard and golden yellow. It can bloom once every 50 years.

Tourism strategy

The best tourism season: the botanical garden is suitable for tourism in all seasons. Each scenic spot has different scenery in different seasons. In spring, you can feel the beauty of the flower hall. In summer, you can shuttle through the stone forest. In autumn, you can overlook most of Xiamen Island from the highest point of the new stele forest.

Transportation Guide: take bus No.25 to Xiamen University and get off at the first stop. You can also take bus No.102.

Main attractions

Wanshishan

In fact, it is the mountain range that constitutes the main forest of Xiamen Island. It is named for its strange rocks and various forms. Xiamen botanical garden is located among them, occupying the largest and most beautiful area of Wanshi mountain, so it is also called Wanshi botanical garden. The main scenic spots are rock landscape and subtropical plant landscape. The famous scenes in Xiamen include "dawn bell in the sky", "wanhu Chaotian", "Zhongyan Yuhu", "Taiping Shixiao" and "gaoduqin cave". Most of the scenic spots in the botanical garden have unique caves, such as the carp cave in Baihua hall, the "little peach garden" stone chamber cave under Haihui bridge, and the large and small strange caves and stones in the new forest of steles.

Pine and fir Garden

Located in the west of Wanshi lake, there is a small pool in the park. There is a pine crane Pavilion beside the pool. On the opposite side of the pavilion, there is a rock engraved with the word "pine crane garden". In the pool, there are five simulated white cranes. Some of them want to fly, some of them stop in the water to watch, some of them look for food in the pool, and some of them rest. There are 70 or 80 species of pine, fir, cypress and juniper planted in the park. Among them, Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Ginkgo biloba are the most remarkable relic plants in ancient times. They are rare and precious tree species left over from the glacial age 2 million years ago and are known as "living fossils". In addition, there are four famous ornamental trees in the world, namely, Chinese golden pine, Japanese golden pine, Araucaria and Italian juniper. These trees, which are beautiful and never tire of seeing, are called scenic trees. Behind the pine and fir garden are the "world Master" presented by former US President Nixon during his visit to China, such as redwood and Chilean Nanyang fir.

In addition, in the beautiful lotus pool, there is the plant world wonder "Wang Lian", with a leaf diameter of 2 meters. What's more strange is that the edge of the leaf is rolled up 20 cm, which can bear more than 70 kg. Boys and girls can sit on the leaf, which is very good-looking.

Palm Garden

Located on the top of Wanshi lake, it is named for planting palm, also known as palm island. There are sixty or seventy exotic trees here. Among them are

"Beauty in the forest" lemon eucalyptus, fishtail sunflower, cattail, Italian palm, West Indian Ruo palm, King coconut, "world oil king" oil palm, Indonesia sugar palm, etc. these palms not only beautify the environment for people to watch, but also many of them have high economic value.

Cactus world

Along the mountain road to the hillside, is the cactus world. Covering an area of 40000 square meters, the main exhibition area includes outdoor exhibition area and exhibition greenhouse. The large succulent plants and cactus in the outdoor exhibition area are magnificent. It is the first time in China that large-scale cactus plants are landscaped outdoors. Here are introduced from Australia, such as giant bottle shaped bottle stem tree, tall elephant leg tree, bottle orchid, pandanus tree and various cactus: in the exhibition greenhouse, cactus of different shapes compete with succulent plants; here is king Jinhu, which is the largest self-cultivation plant in China and has won many awards in the first national flower expo, Hong Kong Flower Exhibition and Kunming World Horticultural Expo The rare ghost, fairy jade, tortoise kapok, qingzige, wulunzhu, as well as the small and delicate succulent plants, such as raw stone flower and clavifolia introduced from South Africa, show a dazzling cactus world.

Herbarium

It's a colorful garden of flowers. It's blooming all year round. There are azalea and Hibiscus in spring, Impatiens and lotus in summer, osmanthus and chrysanthemum in autumn, Chimonanthus praecox and poinsettia in winter. There are laurel and marigold for flowers, asparagus and variegated wood for leaves, Bambusa and Polygonum japonicum for stems, bergamot and tangerine for fruits, and silver willow for buds. In addition, there are ten famous flowers in the world: plum blossom of "Huakui", "peony of" king of flowers "," laurel of "Queen of flowers", "chrysanthemum of" high wind and Bright Festival "," orchid of "gentleman of flowers", "Rhododendron of" beauty of flowers "," camellia of "treasures of flowers", "lotus of lotus in water", "Narcissus of Lingbo Fairy" and peony, Xiamen triangle plum (red, orange, white and purple). There are also world-famous flowers, such as cockscomb, longevity flower and geranium in Africa, Catharanthus roseus, Rosa banksiana, Begonia Bambusa, snapdragon, Nanyang white paper fan and gouweihong in America. Among the specimen buildings, the most attractive one is an ancient elm bonsai. It is more than 300 years old and has a beautiful shape. It has been made into bonsai stamps. In 1972, it was sent to Beijing to participate in the national bonsai exhibition.

Baihua Hall

It was built in 1979 as a famous flower exhibition hall, together with greenhouse, nursery and other introduction and domestication areas, forming a new group of buildings in the botanical garden and a unique tourist spot.

Baihua hall covers an area of more than 1000 square meters. There are five exhibition halls, including cloisters, curved bridges and waterside pavilions. It is surrounded by an oval lotus pool with an area of 1100 square meters.

In addition to displaying precious flowers, Baihua hall also displays hundreds of calligraphy and painting works with the theme of botanical garden, as well as poems and couplets inscribed by many celebrities. Therefore, Baihua hall is also an art hall for visitors to enjoy the dynamic and static art.

Succulent Botanical Garden

On the upper left side of ziyunyan is a giant transparent shell with potted cactus, cactus column, cactus, cactus whip, etc. among them, the most prominent is the cactus "Golden Globe stickler tiger", which has grown for more than 30 years and has a diameter of more than 90 cm. It is the "King of cactus". Immortal column up to 3 meters, is a rare kind. It is said that there are more than 500 kinds of cactus plants in Xiamen, ranking first in China. Cactus has high ornamental value, medicinal value, economic value and scientific research value. It is an important specimen for the study of plant taxonomy and plant evolution.

Wanshi Lake

Wanshi lake was originally wanshiyan reservoir, which was built in 1952 as a war preparation reservoir. The two main water systems in the park, shuimokeng stream and Qiaoxi stream, converge in the lake. Today, it has become the core of the botanical garden landscape, with pine and fir garden and bamboo path in the north, Araucaria lawn in the south, palm island and Baihua hall in the East, and Washington brown, native to America and with southern charm, planted in rows on the dam in the West.

Rose Garden

Rose garden is located between palm island and wanshilian temple. It was built in 1995. It is a special garden mainly planted with Rosaceae plants. There are "elephant trunk peak" and "wanhu Chaotian" and other scenic spots in the area. There are lots of lawns in the park, which are full of tourists during holidays. In addition to Rosa and Rosa, there are also Rosaceae plants such as plum blossom, peach blossom, Pyracantha fortuneana, Spiraea and papaya. Wanhu Chaotian is one of the old 24 scenic spots in Xiamen. In the past, there were no trees planted on the ten thousand stone mountain. Looking from a distance, it was strange that there were many stones. Rows of rocks, one facing

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