Introduction to Beijing Botanical Garden Beijing Botanical Garden is located at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain in the west of Beijing, and it is affiliated to Beijing Park Management Center. It is 23 kilometers away from the city center. There are many buses to reach. Beijing Botanical Garden is a comprehensive botanical garden integrating the functions of popular science, scientific research and sightseeing, and it is one of the national key botanical gardens.
Beijing Botanical Garden is a national AAAA tourist attraction, a popular science base for forestry in China, a popular science education base for wild plant protection in China, a popular science education base for young people in China, an ideological education base for central state organs, a popular science education base in Beijing and the first batch of fine parks in Beijing.
Geographical environment Geographical location Beijing Botanical Garden is located in the northwest suburb of Beijing, with east longitude116 28', north latitude 40, and altitude of 6 1.6-584.6 meters. Beijing Botanical Garden is located outside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing, between Xiangshan Park and Yuquan Mountain in Haidian District (near the Sleeping Buddha Temple in Xishan Mountain), at the southern foot of Shouan Mountain and at the foot of Xishan Mountain. At the intersection of Caosi Road and Xiangshan Road, Xiying, Jieyu Village, Nanying and Baojiayao.
Climate: The climate of Beijing Botanical Garden is a typical semi-humid continental monsoon climate in the north temperate zone, with high temperature and rainy summer, cold and dry winter and short spring and autumn. 1996-2003 Beijing Botanical Garden's annual average temperature 12.8℃, annual precipitation 532.6 mm, monthly average temperature -2.5℃, July average temperature 32.0℃, 1 month extreme minimum temperature-13.8℃, and the extreme maximum in July.
Overview of Main Attractions Beijing Botanical Garden was established with the approval of the State Council in 1956, with a planned area of 400 hectares, with a maximum distance of about 3.5 kilometers from east to west and 2.5 kilometers from north to south. By 20 14, 200 hectares of open tourist areas have been built. Beijing Botanical Garden consists of four parts: plant exhibition area, cultural landscape of historical sites, nature reserve and scientific research area.
The plant exhibition area (about 94 hectares) is divided into three parts: ornamental plant area (42.47 hectares), tree garden area (44.9 hectares) and greenhouse area (6 hectares). The ornamental plant area consists of characteristic gardens, mainly including rose garden, peach garden, peony garden, lilac garden, begonia garden, Mulan garden, Jixiu garden (bamboo garden), perennial flower garden and plum garden. Rose Garden is the largest professional rose garden in China at present, which has cultivated nearly 1 1,000 rose varieties. Taohua Garden is a professional garden with the largest variety of peaches collected in the world. The Botanical Garden consists of Ginkgo, Pine and cypress, Maple and Rose, Tilia, Magnolia and Berberis, Platanus acerifolia and Paulownia Ash. There are also Chinese herbal medicine gardens, wild fruit tree resources, environmental protection plants, aquatic and lianas, rare and endangered plants, tropical greenhouses and so on. Tropical plant exhibition greenhouse was rated as one of the top ten buildings in Beijing in the 1990s. The bonsai garden was completed and opened on 1995. The bonsai garden mainly displays the skills and works of various schools of bonsai in China.
Places of interest are composed of the reclining Buddha Temple, Cherry Valley, Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall, Liang Qichao's Tomb and Longjiao Temple Site. The reclining Buddha Temple, built in the Tang Dynasty, is a national key cultural relic protection unit with a bronze statue of Sakyamuni in the Yuan Dynasty. Cherry Valley, with dense forests, is an important nature conservation education area in the suburbs of Beijing.
The Botanical Garden mainly displays the plant resources in Northeast China, Northwest China and North China, taking into account some subtropical ornamental plants in Central China and South China. It has both scientific and technological content and garden appearance. According to the principle of "building gardens according to local conditions, guiding according to the situation and highlighting plant landscaping", the Botanical Garden has built pine and cypress areas and more than a dozen characteristic gardens. Small gardens have different styles and characteristics. There are China's freehand brushwork pastoral scenery, French court-style neat and rigorous layout, and English-style open and stretched pictures.
The tropical greenhouse has four exhibition areas in the botanical garden, namely, the tropical rain forest exhibition area, the four seasons garden exhibition area, the desert plant exhibition area and the specialized plant exhibition area, which respectively display the typical plant landscapes under different climatic conditions.
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