Shanghai Botanical Garden, formerly known as Longhua Nursery, is located in the southwest of Xuhui District, Shanghai, with Longwu Road in the east, Longchuan Road in the west, Pingfu Road in the south and Zhangjiatang Port in the north. Covering an area of 8 1.86 hectares, it is a comprehensive botanical garden focusing on plant introduction and domestication, horticultural research and popular science education.
The exhibition and sightseeing area of Shanghai Botanical Garden is about 600,000 square meters, which is divided into four plant exhibition areas and 1 sightseeing area. The central part of the park is a plant evolution area, with an area of 322,000 square meters, accounting for 62% of the total exhibition area of the park, which is divided into 15 characteristic parks; South of the central part of the park is an environmental protection factory, covering an area of 30,700 square meters; The southeast of the park is an artificial ecological zone, covering an area of 1 16000 square meters. Two east-west main roads in the park cross the north and south.
The northeast of Shanghai Botanical Garden Park is a green demonstration area with an area of about 38,000 square meters, which is divided into four functional blocks: entrance square area, falling water park, shady rest area and horticultural attractions display area. In the north of the Green Demonstration Zone, the Botanical Garden is the Huang Daopo Temple Tourist Area, which consists of Huang Mu Temple, exhibition hall, gallery and recreation area, covering an area of 4,200 square meters.
Main attractions of Shanghai Botanical Garden:
The factory building is located in the south of the central part of the park, which is the center of the whole park, and there is a main road leading directly to the southeast garden gate in the east. The building is a two-story modern exhibition hall with mixed structure, covering an area of 4420 square meters. On the first floor of the building, there are two exhibition halls, "The Origin of Life" and "The Evolution of Plants", which show the origin of life and the evolution process of plants from scratch and from low to high with model boxes and specimen pictures. There is a popular science lecture hall and a plant exhibition hall on the second floor.
The north and west sides of the plant are composed of tall trees such as camphor tree, cypress tree, ginkgo tree and osmanthus tree. There is a pool in the center of Nanyuan Park, with Taihu Stone revetment and Huangxin hanging around the pool. In the southeast, it faces the environmental protection factory across the lake through the waterfront platform. Aquatic plant pond is located in the southwest of the center of plant evolution area, with an area of 7080 square meters. On the west bank of the pool, there is a double-slope open gallery waterside pavilion with reinforced concrete structure, covering an area of 105 square meter. Aquatic plants such as water lily, lotus, Euryale ferox and Allium are planted in the pool.
The fern garden is located on the east side of the aquatic plant pond, covering an area of 6.5438+0.2 million square meters. There is a double-roof umbrella shade shed with reinforced concrete structure in the park, covering an area of 430 square meters. There are ferns 10 species in the park, such as Adiantum, Pteris Pteris, Dryopteris Dryopteris, Rhizoma Osmundae and Lygodium japonicum. Baisongyuan is located in the northeast of the aquatic plant pond, covering an area of 83,000 square meters. There are 54 gymnosperms such as Cedar, Pinus bungeana, Cypress, Podocarpus, Torreya grandis, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Taxodium ascendens, Cryptomeria fortunei and so on.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanghai Botanical Garden.