Introduction to Bogor Botanical Gardens

Bogor, Indonesia is located about 60 kilometers south of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, with a population of about 400,000. It is an ancient small town. Thanks to the botanical garden, a large number of tourists from Europe and the United States come to visit and study, and its location can be found on a concise world atlas.

There is a statue of Ganesha on both sides of the entrance to the botanical garden. He is the "god of wisdom" believed in by Hinduism, which means that many issues in the garden need to be explored with wisdom. The park is divided into planting areas such as lotus ponds, palms, vines, bamboo forests, rattans, orchids, cacti, and ferns. More than 10,000 kinds of trees introduced from all over Indonesia and the world are planted, and there are more than 4,000 species. belongs to the family, and there are more than 500,000 plant specimens. The Indonesian National Botany Research Institute is located here. This botanical research institute, also known as the Truber Laboratory, was established in 1884 and is world-famous, allowing tropical botanists from all over the world to come here for research. There is a marble tablet inside the institute, on which are engraved the names of nearly 200 world botanists, as well as a statue of Truber, the founder of the laboratory. The layout of the Bogor Botanical Garden is very elegant. There is a tree-lined avenue more than ten meters wide in the garden, with trees of various shapes on both sides slowly stretching along the naturally formed hillside. There is a small sign hanging on each of the more than 10,000 plants, with its scientific name and place of origin written in Latin, and the local name also written on it. Many parasitic plants grow on the tall, towering white olive trees, blocking out the sun; the roots of strange root plants are exposed on the ground, just like several huge triangular ruler boards supporting a tree tens of meters high. Some big trees have roots that are more than ten meters high above the ground, evenly thick and smooth as boards; some big trees are so thick and strong that it takes four or five people to hug them; some betel nut trees are only a dozen centimeters in diameter, equally thick from top to bottom. , without branches, forty or fifty meters high, like a big umbrella, swinging in the wind. The world's rare ironwood trees from Kalimantan and Palembang are also planted here. Ironwood is jet black in color and hard in texture. It is an excellent building material. In the botanical garden, there are not only towering ancient trees and lush greenery, but also many types of exotic flowers and plants. There are between 500 and 600 varieties of cultivated orchids. The famous "Orchid Queen" (also known as "Sugar Cane Orchid") has a stem height of 3 to 5 meters. Each plant can bloom 70 to 80 flowers, with a flower diameter of 15 centimeters. The flower color is yellow with light green, with brown spots, and has a strong fragrance. It is unique to Indonesia. There is also a flower that is only found in Indonesia. It is known as the "corpse flower". It is more than 1 meter tall and blooms every three years. It has an ugly shape and emits a corpse smell in the evening, hence its name. The royal lotus in the lotus pond in the garden is native to the Amazon River in South America. Some leaves can reach 2.5 meters in diameter and can bear a load of 40 to 70 kilograms. The green lotus leaves are like round tabletops clinging to the water. Bogor Botanical Garden also has a memorial pavilion for Mrs. Raffles and a memorial for Desman, the former director who worked in the garden for 36 years.