The Tropical Plants Palace is divided into three exhibition areas, collecting more than 2,000 rare plants, and the exhibition themes are "Plant Wonders" and "Plants and Humans".
The first area is a 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, where visitors can see the unique and peculiar landscapes in the tropical rain forest, such as strangulation, single tree forming forest, bangen, old stem blooming and old stem bearing fruit, Brawly net entanglement and hanging garden. The third area is an arid and semi-arid tropical plant area, in which there is the largest fleshy root plant sleeping bag in China, an Australian endemic plant bottle-dried tree known as the "desert water tower", a rare plant tortoiseshell originated in South Africa, and a "bionic plant" stone flower and cone flower. Here visitors can enjoy exotic flowers and plants from all over the world and plant landscapes in different climatic zones and ecological regions.
Tropical Plant Palace is not only the research and experiment center of plant resources, but also an important base of popular science education for teenagers and a tourist attraction for citizens. Grass Garden Grass Garden is located in the east triangle of the South Garden of Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Botanical Garden and the east of the new main entrance, covering an area of 20,000 square meters, and collecting more than 400 species of Gramineae 100 genera. It is divided into four areas: Germplasm Resources Garden, East China Native Plant Exhibition Area, Plant Function Exhibition Area and Landscape Exhibition Area. According to the existing topography and the evolution process of Gramineae, the main representative species of 8 subfamilies, such as Bambusinae and Oryzae, were planted in turn, which vividly showed the systematic evolution process of Gramineae. The garden is equipped with big trees and flowering shrubs, which is the display base of grass research results in the botanical garden and the popular science base for young people.
The grass garden is divided into three main parts: a small courtyard with low walls, a lawn leisure area and a variety display area.
1, low wall small yard. At the main entrance of Nanyuan Park, there is a group of small courtyards surrounded by stone low walls and hedges, and there are wooden platforms and pools, etc. All kinds of ornamental grasses and ground cover plants are arranged in the courtyard in the form of reading glasses with the low walls as the background.
2. Lawn leisure area. Located in the central area of the grass garden, east of the Botanical Garden for the Blind. A quiet and comfortable sparse grassland landscape is formed with a large area of relatively complete lawn and scattered trees with beautiful tree posture. Around the lawn, dense trees, shrubs and grasses are arranged in three-dimensional configuration, and trees and glasses are arranged.
3. Variety display area. In the north of the grass garden, more than 0/00 species of grass plants/kloc-at home and abroad are displayed in a concentrated way. The exhibition is divided into several communities by natural winding paths, and different kinds of grass plants such as lawns, grasses and cash crops are arranged in different categories, taking into account both ornamental and scientific aspects. The bonsai garden covers an area of 6000 square meters. Taking advantage of the abundant plant resources, ancient piles and strange stones in the Botanical Garden, the park integrates natural beauty with artificial beauty. More than 500 pots of fine products such as stumps, water stones, floods and droughts, flowers and fruits and miniature bonsai are collected in the park. Rose Garden The Rose Garden was founded in 1982 and completed in 1985. It is located on the right side of the south gate of the Botanical Garden, mainly collecting roses, and also planting other Rosaceae plants and some famous flowering plants, such as plum blossom, magnolia, winter jasmine, rose, rhododendron, camellia, peony, peony and so on.
In spring and summer, all kinds of flowers compete for beauty. There is also a 220-square-meter pool and a 90-square-meter cloister in the garden, and aquatic ornamental plants such as Wang Lian, water lilies and calamus are planted in the pool. Medicine Garden The medicine garden covers an area of 20,000 square meters and collects more than 700 species of medicinal plants, belonging to 13 1 family and 429 genera.
China's specialty Chinese herbal medicines Berberis, Camptotheca acuminata, Aesculus aesculus, Dioscorea zingiberensis, Hedysarum crispa, Coptis chinensis and so on are gathered.
According to the medicinal parts and ecological habits, the garden is divided into root and rhizome medicine area, flower and fruit and seed medicine area, stem and leaf whole herb area, vine medicine area and negative medicine area. In memory of Li Shizhen, a herbalist of Ming Dynasty in China, a national style building named Shizhen Pavilion was established in the garden in 1983. Songbai Garden Songbai Garden covers an area of 70,000 square meters, and has collected 1 19 species of conifers, such as Pinaceae, Taxodiaceae and Cupressaceae, which have been preserved at home and abroad. There are abundant conifers and cypresses collected in the park, including Cupressus orientalis, Sabina vulgaris, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Taxodium ascendens and Taxodium distichum.
The pine and cypress garden is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with dense trees, quiet environment and fresh air, accompanied by birds and insects and streams. It is an activity place suitable for fitness exercise and forest bathing. Arboretum Arboretum covers an area of100000 square meters, and is a scientific research base for the introduction and domestication of subtropical trees in North and Central China. It preserves 340 species of trees and shrubs growing in the open field in East China, 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 are preserved, such as magnolia baohua, silver magpie tree, weighing hammer tree, bole tree and fragrant fruit tree. Classification system garden Classification system garden is the plant classification system garden, which covers an area of 60,000 square meters. More than 300 kinds of seed plants that can grow in the open field in East China have been planted, belonging to 85 families and 204 genera. They are planted according to Bessey classification system and ecological conditions and garden layout. It is a living specimen garden for students to understand the classification and evolution of plants, and it is also a base for students of related majors in colleges and universities to practice. The representative plants in the garden are Torreya grandis, Pinus bungeana and Tieqian. Since 2009, the garden has held European flower exhibitions in spring, with hundreds of thousands of tulips, hyacinthus orientalis, daffodils and other famous flowers. The natural trail is a newly opened scenic spot in June 1999. It is the abbreviation of nature education community. It was established by the park in cooperation with Britain. It is located on the south slope of Zijin Mountain in the northwest of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden, covering an area of150,000-200,000 square meters. It is a natural area with various ecological environments.
There is a natural path running through the community, in which ten points are set up, and some necessary facilities are set up according to the needs. Visitors can get to know some characteristic 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 of ecology and relevant knowledge in the process.
The natural trails are characterized by rich natural interest and little artificial interference, and provide a place for the public, especially primary and secondary school students, to fully contact and feel nature and carry out environmental and ecological knowledge education in the natural environment, so as 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 The Botanical Garden for the Blind in Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden for the blind in China as of May 2009. It was built by Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Botanical Garden with the support of Nanjing amity foundation, Tokyo Green China Foundation, Provincial Science and Technology Commission and Hua Fei Company. It was completed and opened to the public free of charge 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-stinging, fragrant and exotic plants have been planted to fully mobilize the senses of smell and touch of the blind.
Some plants in the garden have also set up a voice prompt system. Press the button and you can hear a recording about the plant. Hongfenggang Scenic Area Hongfenggang Scenic Area covers an area of nearly 30,000 square meters, and more than 20 kinds of red-leaf trees of Aceraceae are planted all over the place, such as Acer truncatum, Acer deltoidea, Acer mandshurica, Featherwood Maple, Liquidambar formosana, Sapium sebiferum, Pistacia chinensis, Du Ying, Lagerstroemia indica and Ulmus pumila. Popular Science Demonstration Park Popular Science Demonstration Park, namely Youth Popular Science Demonstration Park, was built in 200 1 year, and is located in the northwest of Zhong Reservoir in Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden, covering an area of 55,500 square meters.
The garden is a special garden specially designed and established for young people. One of its important contents is to show key families and plants, other representative plants and related knowledge points involved in biology textbooks for primary and secondary school students, so as to provide teachers and students with a certain practice place 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, gymnosperms area, crops area, ornamental plants area, medicinal plants area and fruit trees.