Lushan Botanical Garden

Coordinates: 29°33′00″N 115°58′55″E / 29.55000°N 115.98194°E / 29.55000; 115.98194
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Lushan Botanical Garden
庐山植物园
Greenhouse in the Lushan Botanical Garden
Lushan Botanical Garden is located in Eastern China
Lushan Botanical Garden
Lushan Botanical Garden is located in China
Lushan Botanical Garden
TypeBotanical garden
LocationMount Lu, Jiangxi, China
Coordinates29°33′00″N 115°58′55″E / 29.55000°N 115.98194°E / 29.55000; 115.98194
Area≈300 hectares (740 acres)
Opened1934 (1934)
WebsiteOfficial website

Lushan Botanical Garden (

subtropical mountain botanical garden in China. It was founded on 20 August,1934 by Hu Xiansu, Ren-Chang Ching, and Chen Fenghuai, under the name Lushan Forest Botanical Garden. Since its founding, its affiliation and name has gone through several changes. Currently, it is under the administration of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and is composed of 13 special parks and is about 300 hectares (740 acres) in size, with over 5,000 species of plants, along with 170,000 specimens and over 5,000 plant taxa.[1][2][3][4]

Lushan Botanical Garden is famous for its

genera within its Pinales special park.[5]

Lushan Botanical Garden is a member of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and the Initiative for Collective Conservation in Chinese Botanical Gardens (ICCBG).[6]

The botanical garden currently hosts 140 staff, including 43 doctors and 40 masters, being mainly from Nanchang University. The garden hosts 800,000 tourists annually.[6]

Within the Botanical Garden also resides the locations for the tomb of Chen Yinke and the "Tomb of the Three Elders" (Hu Xiansu, Ren-Chang Ching, and Chen Fenghuai), both of which are protected cultural relics.

References

  1. ^ a b "中国科学院庐山植物园" [Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Science]. www.lsbg.cn. Retrieved 2023-02-03.
  2. ^ Zhang, Qingsong (2007-05-09). "The Development of Lushan Botanical Garden" (PDF). Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
  3. ^ "Lushan Botanical Garden". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  4. ISSN 1811-8712
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  5. OCLC 189419379
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  6. ^ a b "庐园简介_中国科学院庐山植物园". www.lsbg.cn. Retrieved 2023-04-09.


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