How to get to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden?

Traffic Guide of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden: Take the bus to Han Meng at Jinghong Bus Terminal, which takes about 40 minutes by car, and the fare is 6.5 yuan.

Xishuangbanna has nearly 6,543,800 hectares of virgin forest and more than 5,000 kinds of woody plants and herbs, including giant trees and primitive ferns. In the dense forest, there are all kinds of plants and animals living and reproducing here.

"Going to Xishuangbanna without looking at plants is equivalent to not going to Xishuangbanna." Menglun Botanical Garden has the reputation of "the epitome of plant kingdom" and "the heart of emerald". Therefore, when people come to Banna, they have to go to the Botanical Garden to fulfill their wishes.

Menglun Botanical Garden, also known as Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, is located in Menglun County, 96 kilometers away from Jinghong and more than 0/00 kilometers away from Mengla County. The Suoluo River, a tributary of the Lancang River that flows here, has just turned a corner and surrounded this land into a gourd-shaped peninsula. People call it Huludao and the Botanical Garden is built on the island.

Huludao covers an area of/kloc-0.5 million mu, with fertile soil and an altitude of 570 meters. It has a tropical climate with an average annual temperature of 265,438+0? C~22？ C, the highest temperature is 38? C~40？ C. The hot and humid climate provides good conditions for the growth of tropical plants. Huludao is surrounded by mountains, and natural vegetation is well protected. 1958, at the initiative of Professor Cai, a famous botanist in China, Yunnan Institute of Tropical Plants was established, initially in Damenglong, and moved to Huludao in 1959. It is a treasure house of scientific experiments and research. After 40 years of development, the island has planted more than 3,000 kinds of tropical and subtropical plants at home and abroad, making it an important tropical botanical garden of China Academy of Sciences.

There is a big suspension bridge leading to the botanical garden on the Rosso River. After crossing the bridge, you can go to the botanical garden. Tall subtropical trees grow on both sides of the road like tea trees, and there are precious Maytenus, a tree that can extract drugs to treat cancer. Professor Cai is trying to find it in the deep mountains. The discovery of this plant brought good news to cancer patients. Dracaena macrophylla was cultivated by Professor Cai himself. Dracaena is the main raw material for making Dracaena. Dragon's blood has the function of promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Walking into the garden, the most striking thing is the national first-class protected plant-Wangtianshu, which is as high as 30 to 40 meters. In the tropical rain forest area, the giant in this towering tree looks like a standout from a distance; Looking from the bottom up, it looks like a sword going straight into the sky, which is very spectacular.

There is an artificial pond near the Botanical Garden Hotel, with oil palm trees covered with "armor" on both sides. These tall and straight trees bring a strong tropical flavor. They are all like mighty guards guarding their homes day and night.

Walking in the botanical garden, you can see the dragon blood tree with lush foliage. This tree is the main raw material for making "dragon blood". Dragon's blood can be used as medicine, which has the functions of stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain. Scientists found it in Xishuangbanna and transplanted it here, so that we could see its beauty.

In the garden, you will see some Dai women wearing national costumes selling red beans to people, which are "acacia beans". There are many red bean trees in the botanical garden, and their fruits make people excited, so they can't help reciting the famous sentences of the ages:

When those red berries come in spring, they flush on your southern branches;

I suggest you collect more as a symbol of our love.

When you stroll to the experimental field, you will see a tree like a tea tree-Maywood. Maywood was discovered by botanist Cai in the mountains in the upper reaches of the river before moving here. Scientists extract drugs from it and bring good news to cancer patients.

In the botanical garden area, there are three kinds of plants, namely "ylang ylang", which is known as "the crown of flowers in the world". The perfume extracted from Jin Lan has a fragrant smell and is one of the precious perfumes in the world today.

In the center of the botanical garden, there is a pond with disc-shaped green leaves. A leaf with a diameter of more than 1 m can support more than 20 kilograms. A Dai nuclear can sit on it and play without sinking. Not only ordinary water lilies are far behind, but also can create Guinness World Records. This is Wang Lian.

There is also a green bamboo area in the botanical garden. Among these bamboo seas, the most peculiar and tasteful one is Phoenix bamboo. The Dai people have a famous song called "Bambusa in the moonlight", and the lyrics are:

The bamboo under the moonlight is so soft and beautiful.

Like a green dream.

The good girl in the bamboo building shines like a night pearl.

If you spend the night in the botanical garden, you are lucky enough to meet the full moon. When you walk under the bamboo forest in the moonlight, you will be intoxicated with this natural creation. If you are a couple, after this scene, not only love can be sublimated, but also beautiful memories will be left, so that love will last forever.

There are many exotic flowers and herbs in the Botanical Garden: the lone "big banyan tree" in the forest, the "blood-sealed throat" that is highly toxic and can be used as medicine, the "black heart tree" that cannot be cut down, the "glutinous rice fragrant bamboo" made by the Dai people for bamboo rice, the "Hede wood" that can extract lubricants that can withstand the low temperature of MINUS 50℃, and the "bell flower" that blooms and closes with the rise and fall of the sun. Such as the "big plank root" of cement wall, the "traveler banana" to quench thirst and cool off summer heat, the "dancing grass" that swings when listening to music, the "mysterious fruit" that can sweeten sour taste, the "palm leaf" that can engrave scriptures, the "jackfruit" that bears fruit with old stems, and the "lard fruit" of the king of forest oil. There are "tuanhua trees" which are 10 times faster than pine trees and grow more than 3 meters per year on average. "Nepenthes" that eat small insects; Hardwood with a specific gravity of II4 and light wood with a specific gravity of only 0.2-0. 1; Precious ebony and teak in kilograms; There is an "egg yolk fruit tree", the fruit is shaped like an egg, the color is like egg yolk, and the taste is like an egg; Mimosa, a color-changing flower that changes color three times a day, closes its leaves as soon as it touches it. There are many kinds, strange, dazzling and knowledgeable.

In addition to enjoying thousands of artificially cultivated plants, people can also enter the original rainforest canyon. The vegetation here is generally more than 5 floors. The highest is the tree looking up at the sky; The middle layer is tall and straight trees, mainly mangroves. The middle and lower layers are still trees such as tuanhuashu and daqingshu; The lower layer is a few hundred meters long low shrubs and vines, strewn at random, dense layers; The bottom is grass, moss and other plants.

Walking into the rain forest valley, even if Wan Li is clear, it is very dark and humid. Almost every few steps, the plants are different. Especially striking is The Stranger in the Forest. In Banna dense forest, it is common for small trees to strangle big trees. The fruits in the forest are banyan, Elaeagnus angustifolia and aesculus. It is eaten by birds and discharged into other trees with feces. In the hot and humid climate of the rainforest, seeds will germinate and grow quickly, and many aerial roots will grow. Aerial roots climb to the ground along the trunk around the tree and grow in the soil. The strangler and the strangled compete for the sunshine in space and the nutrients in the ground. Over time, the tree is strangled, and a scene of the jungle in the plant world is staged.

In the botanical garden, you can see all kinds of exotic flowers and herbs. Jatropha curcas has the function of sealing the throat with blood; The mysterious fruit contains a wonderful protease, which can turn sour taste into sweet taste. It comes from far away West Africa. Dancing grass, each petiole has three leaves, one is long and the other is short. In the morning, the long leaves of this grass spread out from the drooping shape, and two small leaves will jump up and down, just like a girl dancing. In the afternoon, the big leaves droop again, but the small leaves are still beating. Some people call this grass a dancer in the plant kingdom. Zhu Xiang is used by Dai people to cook bamboo rice. The cooked rice is fragrant and delicious. Bay palm, Dai people write with its leaves; Oil melon, with high oil content, above 7 1% and rich nutrition, is known as lard growing on trees, so it is also called lard fruit; Ylang ylang, the most precious perfume plant in the world.

There is also a plant called "vampire". There are thousands of suckers at the roots of sandalwood, which are tightly attached to the roots of parasitic plants and survive by plundering nutrients such as water from that T, so people call sandalwood a terrible "vampire" underground. When sandalwood trees were young, they chose herbs such as Eupatorium odoratum and Catharanthus roseus as parasites. When you grow up, choose shrubs or small trees such as Zizhu and Nanyang Zelkova as parasites, and grow by plundering and exploiting parasitic plants. The sandalwood tree is so jealous that it is not allowed to rely on a better or taller host, otherwise it will die with hatred. Therefore, thin host plants often grow under the lush sandalwood trees.

In the hot tropical rain forest, when your mouth is thirsty, the telephone poles everywhere are like timely rain. This vine contains a lot of water. If you cut off a pole and vine with a knife, shiny water will flow out. At this time, when you drink cool and sweet water, you will suddenly feel cold all over. People call it a "natural kettle".

On the vast green land of Xishuangbanna, there are still many undeveloped virgin lands and many beautiful scenery waiting for people to discover.