Shanghai Chen Shan Botanical Garden is located at No.3888 Huachen Road, Songjiang District, Shanghai, and opened to the public on 20165438+23. It was built by Shanghai Municipal Government in cooperation with China Academy of Sciences, State Forestry Administration and Chinese Academy of Forestry. It is a comprehensive botanical garden integrating scientific research, popular science and sightseeing. Park Botanical Garden is divided into four functional areas: central exhibition area, plant protection area, five continents plant area and peripheral buffer area, covering an area of 2.07 million square meters. It is the largest botanical garden in East China and the second largest botanical garden in Shanghai.
Chen Shan Botanical Garden is divided into four functional areas: exhibition area, plant protection area, five continents plant area and peripheral buffer area. There are 26 characteristic gardens in the central exhibition area, including mine garden, rock and medicinal botanical garden. The central exhibition area and the periphery of Chen Shan Plant Protection Area are a green ring with a total length of 4,500m, which shows representative adaptive plants in Europe, Africa, America and Oceania.
The exhibition greenhouse in the central exhibition area is an important part of the whole botanical garden. It consists of three independent greenhouses (tropical flower and fruit pavilion, psammophyte pavilion and exotic plant pavilion). The outer wall of the greenhouse adopts reticulated shell structure, and more than 3,000 kinds of plants are displayed indoors (up to 2011), including a large number of colorful and unique plants (such as some orchids and succulents).
Chen Shan Botanical Garden has also set up a botanical garden for the blind (located in the central exhibition area), mainly serving the visually impaired. According to the needs of the blind, such as touch, hearing and smell, all kinds of plants with obvious olfactory characteristics, unique plant morphology and bright colors are planted in the park. Set up Braille and phonetic systems in Chinese, English and Chinese, build blind roads, and provide barrier-free facilities such as handrails, kiosks and toilets suitable for the blind.