The South China National Botanical Garden () of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

(formerly Institute of Agriculture and Forestry) is a large

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Tianhe District Tianhe District () is one of the eleven districts of Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province. In Chinese, the name Tianhe literally means "a river in the sky/heavens", which is also a Chinese name for the Milky Way. It is bordered by Yuexi ...

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

province in southern China.

History

The garden was founded in 1929 by botanist

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(Woon-young Chun). The garden focuses on research in ecology, systematic and evolutionary botany, plant resources, biotechnology, landscape and gardening. It covers 1155 hectares and contains 2400 plant species. The garden is organized into several specialized collections containing:

Greenhouses

*Alpine & Arctic plants *Aquatic plants *Mediterranean plants *Tropical plants *Desert plants

Garden

*Magnolias *Palms *Gingers *Orchids *Medicinal Herbs *Relic plants *Bonsai *Landscaping Trees *Camellias *Bamboo *Rhododendron *Economical plants *Rare and Endangered plants

Transport

* Botanical Garden station on Guangzhou Metro Line 6

External links

Official site (English)

Herbarium @ Eflora
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