Main attractions of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden

The South Garden of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden is a newly-built garden, and construction started on 1999. According to the landscape focus, it is divided into 1 1 areas: tropical plant palace, grass garden, blind botanical garden, Hongfenggang scenic spot, bonsai garden, rose garden, medicine garden, pine and cypress garden, arboretum garden, plant classification system garden and natural path-Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden. These 1 1 areas mainly display plant landscapes, giving consideration to popular science and leisure sightseeing functions. South Garden was opened to the public on National Day in 2007, and was named "Plant Expo Park of Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jiangsu Province". Tropical Plant Palace is located in the northwest of Qianhu Lake, with an area of 10000 square meters. It looks like three crystal green leaves, rising from a thousand lakes and standing under the Purple Mountain.

The Tropical Plants Palace is divided into three exhibition areas, with more than 2,000 rare plants collected. The exhibition themes are "Plant Wonders" and "Plants and Humans".

The first area is the tropical flower and fruit area, which displays tropical fruit trees, tropical economic plants and tropical flowers closely related to human life. The second area is the tropical rain forest plant area. Visitors can see the unique and peculiar landscapes in the tropical rain forest, such as strangulation, single tree forming forest, Bane, old stems blooming and old stems bearing fruit, Brawly netting, hanging gardens and so on. The third area is the arid and semi-arid tropical plant area, where there are the largest succulent root plant sleeping bag in China, the Australian endemic plant bottle-dried tree known as the "desert water tower", the rare plant hawksbill which originated in South Africa, and the "bionic plant" stone flower and cone flower. Here, visitors can enjoy exotic flowers and plants from all over the world, as well as plant landscapes in different climatic zones and ecological regions.

Tropical Plant Palace is not only a research and experimental center of plant resources, but also an important base for popular science education for young people and a tourist attraction for citizens. Caoyuan Caoyuan is located in the east triangle of the South Garden of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden. Covering an area of 20,000 square meters, it has collected more than 400 species of Gramineae 100 genera. It is divided into four areas: Germplasm Resources Park, East China Native Plants Exhibition Area, Plant Function Exhibition Area and Landscape Exhibition Area. According to the existing topography and the evolution process of Gramineae plants, the main representative species of 8 subfamilies, such as Bambusoideae and Mieraceae, were planted in turn, which vividly showed the systematic evolution process of Gramineae plants. The garden is equipped with big trees and flowering shrubs, which is the display base of the research results of grass seeds in the botanical garden and the popular science base for young people.

The grass garden is divided into three main parts: low-walled yard, lawn leisure area and variety display area.

1, low wall yard. At the main entrance of Nanyuan Park, there is a group of small courtyards surrounded by stone low walls and hedges, as well as wooden platforms and pools. Various ornamental grasses and ground cover plants are arranged in the courtyard in the form of reading glasses, with low walls as the background.

2. Lawn leisure area. Located in the central area of Fangcao Garden, east of Botanical Garden for the Blind. A large area of relatively complete lawn and scattered trees with beautiful trees form a quiet and comfortable sparse grassland landscape. Around the lawn, dense trees, shrubs and grass are arranged in three dimensions, and trees and glass are arranged.

3. Variety show area. In the north of the grass garden, there are many kinds of grass plants at home and abroad 100. The exhibition is divided into several communities by natural winding paths, and different kinds of grass species such as lawns, grasses and cash crops are arranged in different categories, giving attention to both ornamental and scientific aspects. This bonsai garden covers an area of 6000 square meters. The park uses the rich plant resources, ancient piles and strange stones in the Botanical Garden to integrate natural beauty with artificial beauty. There are more than 500 pots of stumps, water stones, floods and droughts, flowers and fruits, miniature bonsai and other fine products in the park. Rose Garden The Rose Garden was founded in 1982 and built in 1985. Located on the right side of the south gate of the Botanical Garden, it mainly collects roses, but also plants other plants of Rosaceae and some famous flowering plants, such as plum blossom, magnolia, winter jasmine, rose, rose, azalea, camellia, peony and peony.

In spring and summer, flowers bloom. There is also a 220-square-meter pool and a 90-square-meter cloister in the park, where aquatic ornamental plants such as Wang Lian, water lilies and Acorus calamus are planted. The medicinal garden covers an area of 20,000 square meters, and more than 700 species of medicinal plants are collected, belonging to 429 genera of 13 1 family.

China's specialty Chinese herbal medicines Berberis, Camptotheca acuminata, Aesculus chinensis, Dioscorea zingiberensis, Hedysarum hedysari, Coptidis Rhizoma and so on are gathered.

According to medicinal parts and ecological habits, the park is divided into root and rhizome medicinal materials area, flower and fruit and seed medicinal materials area, stem and leaf whole grass area, vine medicinal materials area and negative medicinal materials area. In memory of Li Shizhen, a herbalist of Ming Dynasty in China, a national style building named Shizhen Pavilion was built in the garden from 65438 to 0983. White Pine Garden White Pine Garden covers an area of 70,000 square meters, bringing together 9 species of conifers at home and abroad, including Pinaceae, Taxodiaceae and Cupressaceae11. There are abundant conifers and cypresses in the park, including cypress, Sabina vulgaris, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Taxodium ascendens and so on.

The pine and cypress garden is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with dense trees, quiet environment, fresh air, birds singing and insects singing, and streams gurgling. It is an activity place suitable for fitness exercise and forest bath. Botanical Garden Botanical Garden covers an area of over 6,543,800 square meters. It is a scientific research base for the introduction and domestication of subtropical trees in northern China. 340 species of trees and shrubs growing in the open field in East China are preserved, mainly deciduous and evergreen broad-leaved trees such as FAGACEAE, Lauraceae, Ilex, Magnoliaceae and Aceraceae. In addition, there is a specimen area of rare and endangered tree species, where about 50 species of plants are preserved, such as Mulan Bao Hua, Yinque Tree, Weigeng Tree, Bole Tree and Fragrant Fruit Tree. Classification system garden Classification system garden is a plant classification system garden, covering an area of 60,000 square meters. More than 300 kinds of seed plants which can grow in the open field in East China have been planted, belonging to 85 families and 204 genera. They are planted according to Bessie classification system, ecological conditions and garden layout. It is a living specimen garden for students to understand the classification and evolution of plants, and also a base for students of related majors in colleges and universities to practice. The representative plants in the park are Torreya grandis, Pinus bungeana and Tieqian. Since 2009, the garden has held a European flower exhibition every spring, displaying hundreds of thousands of famous flowers such as tulips, hyacinthus orientalis and daffodils. The nature trail is a newly opened scenic spot in June 1999. It is the abbreviation of nature education community. It was established by the cooperation between the park and Britain. Located on the south slope of Zijin Mountain in the northwest of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden, it covers an area of150,000-200,000 square meters. This is a natural area with various ecological environments.

There is a natural path that runs through the community, with ten points set in it, and some necessary facilities are set up according to the needs. Visitors can learn some special plants, observe birds and insects, catch small insects, collect a small number of animal and plant specimens and play games under the guidance of teachers and tour guides, and learn some basic principles and related knowledge of ecology in the process.

The nature trail is characterized by rich natural interest and less human interference, which provides a place for the public, especially primary and secondary school students, to fully contact and feel nature, and to carry out environmental and ecological knowledge education in the natural environment to help them better understand and learn nature, further stimulate their love for nature and cultivate their environmental awareness more effectively. Botanical Garden for the Blind Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden for the blind in China as of May 2009. It was built by Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden with the support of Nanjing Friendship Foundation, Tokyo Green China Foundation, Provincial Science and Technology Commission and Hua Fei Company. Free opening was completed in May 1998.

The Botanical Garden for the Blind covers an area of 1 hectare, and the plants and facilities planted in the garden fully consider the needs of the blind. Some non-toxic, non-irritating and fragrant exotic flowers and grasses have also been planted to fully mobilize the sense of smell and touch of the blind.

Some plants in the garden have also set up voice prompt systems. Press the button and you can hear the recording about this plant. Hongfenggang Scenic Area Hongfenggang Scenic Area covers an area of nearly 30,000 square meters, and there are more than 20 species of Acer truncatum, Acer truncatum, Fraxinus mandshurica, Liquidambar formosana, Sapium sebiferum, Pistacia chinensis, Du Ying, Lagerstroemia indica and Elm. Popular Science Demonstration Park Popular Science Demonstration Park, namely Youth Popular Science Demonstration Park, was built in 200 1, located in the northwest of Zhong Reservoir in Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden, covering an area of 55,500 square meters.

This garden is a special garden specially designed and built for young people. One of its important contents is to show key subjects and plants, other representative plants and related knowledge points involved in biology textbooks to primary and secondary school students, so as to provide teachers and students with certain practice places and hands-on opportunities, so that students can better understand and master the biological knowledge they have learned in class. The park is a garden for teenagers to learn biology and related disciplines, and also a demonstration garden for the public and biology lovers to learn more about plants. The park is divided into bryophyte area, gymnosperm area, crop area, ornamental plant area, medicinal plant area and fruit tree area.