[South China National Botanical Garden was established]Committed to ex situ conservation of rare and endangered plants to return to the wild- China Daily

CCTV news:This morning (July 11), the South China National Botanical Garden was inaugurated in Guangzhou. This is the second national botanical garden established in my country after the Beijing National Botanical Garden.

South China National Botanical Garden is currently the largest South subtropical botanical garden in the world and one of the oldest botanical research and plant protection institutions in China. .

Walking into the Guangzhou Park of the South China National Botanical Garden is like walking into a huge and distinctive Lingnan garden. There are tropical palm trees on both sides of the road, passing through the water pavilion, you can see the cedar trees standing by the water. It is understood that there are more than 17,000 species of plants conserved here ex situ.

Walking into the rainforest room, the reporter found that the layered sense of the tropical rainforest is very rich, and here you can appreciate the wonders of the rainforest.

This is a very special tree named “Dongtian Tree”. If you look from the inside, you will find that it is indeed “unique”. After the epiphytic tree withered gradually, the surrounding branches were slowly left.

From tropical rain forests to alpine plants, from exotic flowers to desert plant landscapes, the South China National Botanical Garden can not only display a wide variety of plant wonders, but also turn the beautiful legends of the plant world into situations, reproduce them truly, and interpret the uniqueness of the plant world. of mystery and fantasy.

Committed to ex situ conservation of rare and endangered plants returning to the wild

In recent years, the South China National Botanical Garden has been committed to ex situ conservation of plants and the return of rare and endangered plants to the wild. Among the plants successfully conserved ex situ in the park, there are 643 species of rare and endangered plants and 337 species of national key wild plants.

At present, the South China National Botanical Garden has successfully realized the wild return of 36 species of rare and endangered plants in South China, including Rhododendron, red camellia, and hydrangea. In the next three to five years, the South China National Plant Ex situ Conservation Center will be established, with 20,000 species under conservation, including 6,000 species of economic plants, effectively protecting 95% of the rare and endangered plants in South China.

Highlight the characteristics of special gardens and improve the quality level

How is the South China National Botanical Garden different from other botanical gardens, and how will it be built next?

A major feature of the South China National Botanical Garden is that it has a wide variety of specialized gardens, such as orchid garden, bamboo garden, ginger garden, medicine garden, pineapple garden, palm garden, etc. The special garden mainly collects plants with the same characteristics, and there are also many rare and endangered species, which represent the regional characteristics of the botanical garden in which it is located.

One of the tasks for the construction of the South China National Botanical Garden is to build 4 of the existing 38 specialized gardens into world-class and 4 into domestic first-class. The South China National Botanical Garden will adhere to the focus on the ex situ conservation of plants in South China, build a South China Plant Germplasm Resource Bank, a scientific research platform for plant ex situ conservation and utilization, and a South China Plant Resource R&D Center; systematic collection, complete preservation, high-level research and development of plants. Sustainable use, improve the function of popular science education, and tell the story of Chinese plants.

[Editor in charge: Xu Dan]