West Shuangbanna has nearly 100,000 hectares of primeval forests, where more than 5,000 kinds of woody and herbaceous plants grow, including huge trees and primitive ferns. All kinds of plants and animals live and thrive in the dense forests.
"Going to Xishuangbanna without seeing plants is the same as not going to Xishuangbanna". Menglun Botanical Garden is known as "the miniature of the plant kingdom" and "the heart of the emerald". Therefore, people come to Banna to go to the botanical garden to fulfill their wishes.
Menglun Botanical Garden, also known as the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, is located in Menglun, Mengla County, 96 kilometers away from Jinghong, more than a hundred kilometers away from Mengla County. The Lancang River tributary Luosuo River flows here just turned a corner, the land into a gourd-shaped peninsula, people call it Hulu Island, the botanical garden is built on the island.
Huludao Island covers an area of 15,000 acres, fertile soil, 570 meters above sea level, belongs to the tropical climate, the average temperature throughout the year between 21?C ~ 22?C, the highest temperature between 38?C ~ 40?C, hot and humid climate, for the growth of tropical plants provide good conditions, Huludao Island is surrounded by mountains, natural vegetation is better protected, in 1958, in our country's famous botanist Professor Cai Xitao initiative. In 1958, under the initiative of Prof. Cai Xitao, a famous botanist in China, Yunnan Tropical Botanical Research Institute was established, which was first built in Da Menglong and then moved to Huludao in 1959. It is a treasure trove for scientific experiments and research. After 40 years of development, the island is now planted with more than 3,000 kinds of domestic and foreign tropical and subtropical plants, and is an important tropical botanical garden belonging to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
There is a big suspension bridge over the Luosuo River on the way to the botanical garden, and after crossing it, you will arrive at the botanical garden. Tall subtropical trees grow on both sides of the road. Like the tea bushes is the valuable Maidenwood, a tree that can be refined to cure cancer drugs, which Prof. Cai Xitao found in the mountains after a lot of hard work. The discovery of this plant has brought a blessing to cancer patients. Those growing with big leaves are Dragon's Blood Trees, which were cultivated by Prof. Cai Xitao himself. Dragon's Blood Trees are the main raw material for manufacturing Blood Extract. Blood depletion has the effect of activating blood and stopping bleeding. Walking into the garden, the most eye-catching is the Wangtian tree, a national key protected plant that reaches 30 to 40 meters high. In the tropical rainforest area, this towering giant in the tree, from a distance like a crane; from the bottom to look up like a sword straight into the clouds, very spectacular.
In the Botanical Gardens near the hotel there is a large artificial pond, planted on both sides of the patch covered with "armor" of the oil palm trees, these tall straight trees, bringing a rich tropical flavor, they are like the mighty guards, day and night guarding their homes.
Walking in the botanical garden, we can see the branches and leaves of the dragon's blood tree. This tree is the main raw material for the production of "blood exhaust". It can be used as a medicine to stop bleeding, invigorate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain. Scientists discovered it in Xishuangbanna and transplanted it here so that we could have a chance to see it.
In the garden, you will see some Dai women in national costume, selling red beans to people, which are "Acacia beans". The botanical garden planted a lot of red bean trees, its fruit let people send a wisp of love, can not help but make people recite the ancient famous line:
Red beans are born in the south, spring hair a few branches;
Advise you to pick more, this thing is the most lovesick.
When you stroll to the experimental field, you will see a tree like a tea bush, the Maidenwood. Meidengmu was found in the mountains upstream of the Luosuo River by botanist Cai Xitao's organization, which later moved it here. From it, scientists refined it into a medicine that has been a boon to cancer patients.
In the tree specimen area, there are three "Ylang-ylang", which is known as "the crown of the world's flowers". The spice extracted from the golden-yellow ylang-ylang flower is fragrant and is one of the world's most valuable spices today.
The center of the botanical gardens, there is a pond, the growth of the disc like green leaves, a leaf diameter of more than 1 meter, can support the weight of more than 20 kilograms, a small nucleus of the Dai can sit on it to play without sinking. Not only general water lily can not reach, simply can create the Guinness Book of World Records. This is the "king lotus".
The botanical garden also has a green bamboo area. In this sea of bamboo, the most rare and flavorful to count the phoenix-tailed bamboo. The Dai ethnic group has a very famous song called moonlight under the phoenix-tailed bamboo ", the lyrics are:
Moonlight ah below the phoenix-tailed bamboo ah, gentle ah beautiful
Like a green dream ah ah.
The good girl in the bamboo building is radiant like a night pearl ah
If you spend the night in the Botanical Gardens and are lucky enough to encounter a full moon, you will be mesmerized by the natural creation as you stroll under the phoenix-tailed bamboos in the moonlight. If it is a couple, after this scene, not only love can be sublimated, but also will leave wonderful memories, so that love will always extend
The Botanical Gardens also has many exotic flowers and trees: a single tree into a forest of "big banyan tree", there is a very poisonous, can be made into a medicine, "see the blood to seal the throat", can not be killed by cutting the "Black Heart Tree", Dai do bamboo rice, "glutinous rice bamboo", can be extracted from lubricant that can withstand temperatures of minus 50 degrees Celsius, "He De Wood", follow the "He De Wood", "He De Wood", "He De Wood", and "He De Wood", and "He De Wood", and "He De Wood", and "He De Wood", and "He De Wood", and "He De Wood". He De Wood", "Clock Flower" which follows the sun's rise and fall, "Clock Flower" which looks like a concrete wall, "Clock Flower" which looks like a concrete wall. There are "Dabangan" which looks like a concrete wall, "Traveler's Banana" which quenches thirst and quenches summer heat, "Dancing Grass" which swings when it hears music, "Mystery Fruit" which sweetens sourness, "Bay Leaf Palm" which can be used to carve Scripture, "Pineapple Nectar" which blossoms and bears fruit on old stems, and "Lard Fruit" which is the king of oil in the forest; there is the "Tuanhua Tree" which grows 10 times faster than a pine tree and has an average growth of more than 3 meters per year, and the "Porcupine Grass" which eats small insects; there is a hardwood with a specific weight of II4, which can be used for the production of lubricants that can withstand low temperatures of -50℃; there is also "Hodgkin's Grass" which eats small insects; there is also a hardwood that can be used as an ingredient in the production of lubricants that can withstand low temperatures of -50℃. Specific gravity of II4 hardwood, specific gravity of only 02 a 01 light wood; there is the value of kilograms of "black sandalwood", "teak"; there are fruits shaped like an egg, color such as egg yolk, taste such as egg "egg yolk fruit tree"; a day to change the color of 3 times the color-changing flowers "; a touch of the closed leaves of the" Mimosa "and so on. There are many varieties, strange, eye-catching and confusing, great knowledge.
In addition to enjoying thousands of cultivated plants, people can also enter the primitive rainforest valley. The vegetation here is usually above 5 layers. The tallest is the sky-watching tree; the middle layer is the tall and straight trees, mainly the red light tree, etc.; the middle and lower layers are still the trees such as the regimental flower tree and the big green tree; the lower layer is the low shrubs and the lianas up to a few hundred meters long, which are in different heights and layers; and the lowest layer is the plants such as the small grasses and mosses.
Walking into the rainforest gully, even under clear skies, it is very dark and humid inside. Almost every few steps, the plants are different. Particularly striking are the "stranglers of the forest". The strangling of large trees by small trees is very common in Banna's dense forests. The fruits of the Banyan Tree, Banyan Tree, Banyan Tree, and Lotus Julianus are eaten by birds and then excreted in feces onto other trees. In the hot and humid climate of the rainforest, the seeds quickly germinate and grow, and many aerial roots are formed. The aerial roots climb to the ground along the surrounding trunks of the arborvitae and insert themselves into the soil to grow. The strangler and the strangled compete for sunlight in space and for nutrients underground, entangling the arborvitae over time in a scene of the underdog in the plant world.
In the botanical garden, you can see a variety of exotic flowers and trees. Arrow Poisonwood, with the function of seeing blood; Mystic Fruit contains a wonderful protease, this protease can be sour taste into sweet taste, it is from the far west of Africa; Dancing Grass, each of its petiole has three leaves, a long, two short, in the morning the long leaves of this grass from the drooping flat stretched out, the two small leaves will go up and down to jump, like a young girl in the dance, to the afternoon, the big Leaves and droop down, but the small leaves are still constantly jumping, some people call this grass dancers in the plant world; Bamboo, Dai people use it to do bamboo rice, do out of the rice has a fragrance, taste is very fresh and delicious; Bei Ye Palm, the Dai people use its leaves to write words; Oil melon, oil content is very high, more than 71%, nutritious, known as lard growing on the tree, so it is also called lard fruit; Yilanxiang, the world's most expensive spice, the most valuable spice. The world's most valuable spice plant.
There is also a plant called "vampire". Sandalwood tree roots with thousands of suckers, tightly adsorbed in the roots of parasitic plants, rely on the T from the water and other nutrients and live, so people say sandalwood is the underground terrible "vampire". Sandalwood tree at a young age to choose herbaceous plants such as plane grass, periwinkle and so on as a parasite, grow up to choose purple plant, the southern carpet and other shrubs or small trees as a parasite, by plundering and exploiting the growth of parasitic plants. Sandalwood tree's jealousy is particularly strong, do not allow to live on the host growth than it is better than it, higher than it, or it will "hate" and die, so the growth of lush sandalwood tree, often grows under the withered and weak host plant.
In the hot tropical rainforest, when you dry mouth, everywhere you can see the flat vine is like timely rain. This vine has a lot of water, with a knife to cut a flat vine, white water will flow out, at this time you drink a child's mouth cool and sweet flat water, will immediately feel the whole body through the cool. People call it the "natural kettle".
In Xishuangbanna's vast green space, there are still many virgin land has not been developed, there are still many beautiful waiting for people to find.