 The trees in the Tropical Botanical Garden are luxuriantly green and characterizing a spring day all the year round. Scenes such as strangling phenomenon, flowers on aged trunks, one-tree forest, flying huge vines and garden in the air are frequently encountered in the garden. Flowering of iron trees, the color-changing flowers, mysterious fruits and dancing grasses can be met almost everywhere. Besides, within the garden, the scientific workers also raise some rare local animals such as peacocks and gibbons; the animals and plants live harmoniously in this artificial tropical garden. What is particularly worth mentioning is that, in the comparatively well-protected 90 hectares of rain forests, there are altogether more than 2000 local plant species, which account for 40% of the plants in Xishuangbanna. Moreover, the botanical garden also transplants more than 400 varieties of plants of South Yunnan and 56 varieties of key national protection plants in this garden. These plants and animals together make the garden become an important base for botanical research, plant seed resource preservation, technical development, and science popularization; besides, the valleys and trenches here transverses in lengths and breadth and make the biotope particularly complex, and gives the botanical garden peculiar rain forest features. The visitors are more often than not relaxed and happy after taking a walk around this beautiful place.
The peculiar rain forest landscapes, the rain forest sceneries, and national forest cultures combine organically on the Gourd Island, and they bring out the best each other; therefore, they sufficiently represents the harmony in-between man and nature. Each year, the tropical garden would attract hundreds of thousands Chinese and foreign experts, scholars, and tourists to come here for investigations, academic exchanges and sightseeing. Some foreign leaders, members of foreign royal families, the ambassadors of many countries, the major officials of some international organizations, and some famous international scholars who have come to the gourd Island for investigations and sightseeing all marveled at such an outstanding research institute that lies on the Southwest Chinese borderline, and all of them spoke highly of the development of the tropical botanical garden and expressed their wishes for constructing the garden into the first-rate botanical gardens of the world.
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