Main attractions of botanical garden

Located in the west of Shiwan Lake, there is a small pool in the park, and there is a pine crane pavilion next to the pool. Opposite the pavilion, there is a rock with the words Songheyuan engraved on it. There are five simulated white cranes in the pool, some flying, some standing in the water to watch, some foraging in the pool, some resting, and all kinds of shapes are very realistic. There are 70 or 80 species of pine, fir, cypress and juniper planted in the park, among which Metasequoia glyptostroboides and Ginkgo biloba, the rare tree species left over from the ice age 2 million years ago, are the most striking and are called living fossils. In addition, there are four kinds of famous ornamental trees in the world, namely, China Golden Pine, Japanese Golden Pine, Phoebe bournei and Italian juniper. These kinds of trees are beautiful and never get tired of seeing them. They are called landscape trees. Behind the pine tree garden, there are also world grandfathers-Sequoia and Aralia Chile, which were presented by former US President Nixon during his visit to China.

In addition, Wang Lian, a wonder of the plant kingdom, grows in a beautiful lotus pond with a leaf surface of 2 meters in diameter. What's even more peculiar is that the leaf edge is rolled 20 cm and can bear more than 70 kilograms. Boys and girls can sit on the leaves, which looks good. It is located above Shiwan Lake, named after palm trees, also known as Palm Island. There are sixty or seventy exotic tree species here. Including

Beauty in the forest, such as eucalyptus citriodora, solanaceae, mallow, Italian palm, west Indian palm, king coconut, world oil palm and Indonesian sugar palm, not only beautify the environment, but also have high economic value. Built in 1979, as a famous flower exhibition hall, together with the introduction and domestication areas such as greenhouses and nurseries, it forms a new architectural complex and a unique tourist spot in the Botanical Garden.

Baihuatang covers an area of 1 1,000 square meters. It is composed of five exhibition halls, cloisters, curved bridges and waterside pavilions in series, surrounding an oval lotus pond with an area of 65,438+0,654,38+0,000 square meters.

In addition to precious flowers, Baihua Museum also exhibited hundreds of paintings and calligraphy works with the theme of Botanical Garden, as well as inscriptions and poems by many celebrities. Therefore, Baihua Pavilion is also an art museum, which allows visitors to enjoy dynamic and quiet art. Desert Plant Area (cactus world): The cactus world of Xiamen Garden and Botanical Garden covers an area of 40,000 square meters, and more than 32 families 1200 kinds of desert plants are cultivated. Now it is the largest cactus garden in China, which is divided into outdoor exhibition area and exhibition greenhouse. Outside

In the exhibition area, there are bottle-dried trees shaped like giant bottles, tall and majestic wurenzhu, bougainvillea and pandanus trees. Cactus plants were planted and displayed outdoors for the first time in China. In the exhibition greenhouse, various cactus plants compete with each other: the most Dajin Lake cultivated in China, the rare golden thorn prajnaparamita, overlord tree, tortoise-patterned kapok, and the small and lovely succulents such as raw stone flowers and stone leaf flowers imported from South Africa.