Taiyuan Botanical Garden: Happy Home of Endangered Rare Plants

Have you seen 2.7 meters high and 3.8 meters, and at the same time, the "tree" of a centenar peony "tree" with more than 150 flowers? Have you ever seen a "Lianli" Guohuai that has grown up by 15 trees from a young age, and the root system has grown into one? Have you ever seen the Fly Flying Tree and the Gaoshan Banyan Tree that eats bugs? Have you ever seen Shanxi -specific species, winged oil tree, Taihang chrysanthemum ... Come to Taiyuan Botanical Garden, let you see it once!

In the past collapsed land, today's splendid garden

Taiyuan Botanical Garden, located at the foot of Tai Mountain at Jinyuan District, is the first ecological botanical garden in our city. It was officially opened on December 31, 2020. It covers an area of ​​more than 2,700 acres and collects more than 4,500 plants, including 83 endangered plants. It is a comprehensive botanical garden that integrates scientific research, science education, tourism, tourism, ecological leisure and cultural tourism.

Every time I come to the Botanical Garden, Uncle Li, a nearby resident, can't help but feel sighed. "I live in a nearby village. The environment here was really bad. Coal washing plants, coal storage yards, vermiculite piles, chemical factories, soil, rainy days in sunny days, rainy days, rainy days, rainy days One mud! "In just four or five years, it can be described as" overwhelming and generous "! The 420,000 square meters of coal storage pits were transformed into landscape lakes. All 144 small and medium -sized polluting enterprises were moved away. The 1.33 million square meters collapsed surface -improved green into 25 special botanical gardens. Use more than 1,000 jujube trees for more than a century.

The old man said that he not only saw the changes here, but also participated in the changes here. Although it was only a simple job such as digging earthwork and sapling during construction, there was still a sense of pride in improving the environment of the homeland. Standing on the sparkling and asking the lake, the old man said "bragging" to the children, "This was built!"

"Dew Pearls" Bloom Fanghua's inside and outside "There are materials"

Tobulous the lake is the biggest highlight of the botanical garden -three "dew greenhouses". According to the physical quantity, the largest "Tropical Rain Forest Hall" introduced more than 1,500 tropical plants, creating a typical tropical rain forest environment. Many of them are very rare, such as pig cage grass, flytrap, blood -sealing throat tree, etc. ; The volume is the "Sha Sheng Botanical Museum", which is planted with plants native to the Americas, Africa, and Australia, such as cactus, fairy balls, succulent, etc., so that tourists far away from the desert environment feel the exotic style of the desert; It is the "Four Seasons Flower Pavilion", as the name suggests, showing the corresponding plant flowers in different seasons. The most fascinating is the orchid corridor, and the colorful color is staggered.

The three "dew greenhouses" not only have the Qiankun inside, but their architecture itself can be called "art". "This is the first large -scale exhibition greenhouse in China to adopt a glue wood structure. It is also the largest span -span -span -span -span -span -in -gum structure building in China. Difficulty is the only Chinese project that has been rated in the world's best projects. "Lu Jiannan, head of the science popularization department of the Botanical Garden, introduced that in 2021, the building won the Architecture Structural Skills Award in the World Structural Awards and won unanimous praise from the academic community.

Protecting endangered plants to the ground to land in Taiyuan

In addition to the "park" attribute, Taiyuan Botanical Garden has a very important function, which is to protect Shanxi species diversity and Shanxi unique plant resources. In recent years, the botanical research team has traveled almost all over the mountains and rivers in Shanxi, and has extended the tentacles to the entire North China region.

In the botanical garden's endangered and rare plant quoting species and domestication base, the team leader Ren Baoqing said with a plant with his finger, "This is a winged fruit tree, Shanxi unique species. It appeared in the dinosaur era. Deep, you can biological nitrogen fixation, windproof sand and sand, and high nutritional value ... "Turned and said," That's the unique species of Taihang Mountain, which was born on the cliff. It adapts to the climatic conditions of the basin, and it has become an important 'punch -in point' in the botanical garden. "In the base, there are also iron thorum, one -rooted grass, Taihang flower, glandular hair, etc., all of which are important members of Shanxi plants. According to statistics, the botanical research team has found 19 new species of Shanxi plant species, protecting more than 60 endangered plant species, and more than 460 species of local species.

Postmodern language

Since late August, our reporter has selected eight distinctive parks in the provincial capital, leading everyone to check in together, appreciating the beauty of the city of Taiyuan, and this time it comes to an end.

It is not difficult to find in life in life that there are beautiful scenery everywhere in Taiyuan. Large and small parks are just a microcosm of urban greening and beautification in our city in recent years. Vivid portrayal.

Here, the park is built in the painting, and people are in the painting; here, Jingcheng is integrated and the city is harmonious. The ecological city of green mountains and green mountains will make our lives happier and our city more vibrant.

Source: Taiyuan Evening News

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