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Today we will visit Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, ChineseAcademy of Sciences.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden is one of the first batch of 4Ascenic spots and national popular science education base. It is located inMenglun Town, Mengla County, 70 kilometers away from Jinghong, so it is alsocalled Menglun botanical garden. The botanical garden is located on the gourdshaped island of the Luosuo River, a tributary of the Lancang Mekong River. Thegarden was founded on January 1, 1959 under the leadership of Professor CaiXitao, a famous botanist in China. Covering an area of 900 hectares, the islandis the largest botanical garden with the richest plant diversity in China. Thereare 35 special parks with unique scientific connotation, including more than10000 tropical plants from home and abroad. There are such tropical rainforestwonders as flowering iron tree, dancing grass, single tree forest and skygarden. We will learn a lot about botany here.
The first stop of our tour is the national tree garden. As we all know,almost every country in the world has its own national tree and national flower,which is not only the cultural tradition, aesthetics and values of a nation, butalso the symbol of a country and a nation. The national tree and national gardencovers an area of 20 mu, and 165 tropical plants are introduced and cultivated.The national tree national garden was built in 1999. The garden is designedaccording to the national tree and national flower of six continents in theworld. It is divided into six collection areas, with roads as the dividing lineof each area. There are 55 kinds of national trees and flowers from 66 countriesin the park. For example, the national flower of Laos - Plumeria, the nationalflower of Madagascar - Phoenix, the national flower of Belgium - Rhododendron,etc.
After visiting the national tree garden, we came to the famous tree garden.Covering an area of 55 mu, 343 tropical plants are collected and displayed. Inthe park, there are "xiyuanpu" which shows the history of the botanical garden,a stone group sculpture named shuhaixing, which commemorates the founderProfessor Cai Xitao, and famous trees planted by dozens of internationalcelebrities. There are Acacia with heart-shaped seeds planted by Jiang, Herculeswith extremely hard and heavy material planted by Li Peng, and Wangtian treeplanted by Prince Philip of England. A variety of exotic flowers and trees werealso collected in the famous tree garden, including the Cambodian dragon bloodtree discovered and planted by Professor Cai Xitao, which can extract the "holymedicine for promoting blood circulation" - Draconis Draconis; the peacock liketree is called "life-saving tree" traveler banana; the most poisonous plant inthe world, the arrow poison tree, which is called "sealing the throat withblood"; the golden banyan with different leaf shapes and colorful flowers; andthe flower garden; There are Xishuangbanna's oldest Tieshu, the dioeciousMillennium Tieshu king, and Datura stramonium, which is similar to the invertedTrumpet Flower. The name of Datura stramonium is transliterated from Sanskrit.Because it can relax muscles and inhibit the secretion of sweat glands, theancients named it "" as one of the "five trees and six flowers" in Buddhism.
Now we are visiting rongshuyuan. Banyan is the general name of the genusFicus in Moraceae. It is famous for its peculiar shape, luxuriant branches andleaves, and huge crown. The aerial roots growing on the branches go down intothe soil to form new trunks, which are called "pillar roots". Banyan trees areup to 30 meters high and can stretch infinitely in all directions. Among them,the pillar roots and branches interweave to form a "single tree into a forest".There are more than 800 known banyan trees in the world, mainly distributed intropical areas, especially in tropical rainforests. There are about 100 speciesof Ficus in China, including 67 species in Yunnan and 44 species inXishuangbanna. 103 species of Ficus were collected in this 15 mu garden. Somebanyan trees also form the phenomenon of tree tower, single tree into forest,strangulation, and other important landscape features of tropical rain forest,such as plate root, pillar root, old stem bearing, hanging garden and so on.
Banyan trees used to be an important source of wild food for some localpeople. Banyan trees, which are used as vegetables in Xishuangbanna, are rich invitamins, minerals, cellulose and bittern, which help people digest. In additionto edible, banyan is also an important national medicinal plant. In banyan,there are nine kinds of plant roots, bark, leaves and pulp, which can be used totreat a variety of diseases. Some banyan trees are also regarded as sacred treesand Buddha trees by local people. Because many banyan trees have developedcrown, dense shade, has always been the traditional garden plants.
Like banyan, palm is also a huge family. Palm plants here are various andcharming. Because of its beautiful tree shape, it is known as "princess in theplant kingdom" and an important symbol of tropical plants. The palm gardencovers an area of 114 Mu and collects more than 400 kinds of Palmaceae plants.It is the largest collection and cultivation base of Palmaceae plants in China.The garden not only preserves Hainan's protected plants Qiong palm, Yunnan'sDong palm, long palm, etc., but also collects and preserves the palm fruit snakepeel, which originated from Malay Peninsula to Java.
Next, we will visit the exotic garden with dancing grass. The garden coversan area of 10 mu. There are so many exotic flowers and trees, as many as 243kinds. There are old stem biochemical plants, such as carefree flower andmunaiguo, stem expanding stem observation plant, wine bottle brown, tuberousroot and tuberous expanding plant, South Yunnan snow gall and mountain turtle,flower like cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of catwhisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of catwhisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of catwhisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of catwhisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker of cat whisker. Now infront of you is the plant dancer - Dancing grass. Dancing grass is a kind ofrare plant on the verge of extinction. It's not like a tree, it's like grass,it's not grass, its ability to respond to the outside world is amazing. If youplay a beautiful lyric music, it will be like a woman in Yuli, stretching hersleeves and dancing. If it plays disorderly, strange tunes of songs or loudnoise, it will not move or turn, it seems to be disgusted.
Dear friends, our tour is coming to an end. Today's short tour, I hope youcan knock on the door of the plant kingdom. May the journey of XishuangbannaTropical Botanical Garden leave you a good memory.
