Landscaping----Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden,CAS

	Where flowers, grass dance to your tunes 　　Yunnan has given birth to some of China's greatest dancers, but you'll never guess who your next dance partner will be. It could be grass. 　　Scientists out on field trips noticed it when they relaxed in the woods and sang for self-enjoyment. The blades of one kind of grass would open or close at their sound. Now it has...

	Bat Uses Pitcher Plant as Toilet; Plant Benefits It's no load of crap—a carnivorous plant in Borneo survives mostly off of bat feces, a new study says. 　　A type of Hardwicke's woolly bat and a subspecies of the Nepenthes rafflesiana pitcher plant have developed a mutually beneficial relationship in Brunei, a tiny country that's part of the Southeast Asian island of Borne...

	Flower Garden in amazing colours In June, the Flower Garden in XTBG has been decorated with various plants in bloom. A few examples are lotus flowers, iris, hibiscus, bugambilia, golden lotus banana, and heliconia. 　　The Flower Garden is made more eye-catching for the natural landscape integrated with such gardening ornaments as flower stands, corridors, w...

	Flower show to greet the 61st anniversary of China 　　As the week-long National Day holiday draws near, XTBG is preparing for a flower show to greet the 61st anniversary of China. A total of 30,000 pots of flowers are set out for the flower show. During the “Golden Week” from October 1-7, the Flower Garden within XTBG will turn into a magnificent flower park. 　　Visitor...

	Pitcher Plant Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants whose prey-trapping mechanism features a deep cavity filled with liquid known as a pitfall trap. It has been widely assumed that the various sorts of pitfall trap evolved from rolled leaves, with selection pressure favouring more deeply cupped leaves over evolutionary time. However, some ...

	Water Monitor makes its way through swamps of XTBG Palm Garden 　　The Palm Garden of XTBG represents a typical image of tropical landscape. Occupying an area of 9.3 ha, the Palm Garden is home to 460 palm species from tropical regions. It is one of the richest palm collections in the world. In addition to palms, the wetlands and swamps also provide habitats to some animals. 　　Two wat...

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