Tsukuba Botanical Garden
The Tsukuba Botanical Garden (筑波実験植物園, Tsukuba Jikken Shokubutsuen, 14 hectares, 36 acres) is a major
It is open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.As a research branch of the
The garden's outdoor collections are arranged into the following sections: Evergreen Broad-leaved Forest, Temperate Coniferous Forest, Warm-temperate Deciduous Broad-leaved Forest, Cool-temperate Deciduous Broad-leaved Forest, Shrubs, Sandy and Gravelly, Montane Grassland (High Altitudes), Montane Grassland (Low Altitudes), Rookeries (Coastral), Rookeries (High Altitudes), Marsh Plants, and Hygrophytes and Aquatic Plants.
The garden contains three greenhouses:
- Tropical Resource Plants House (about 550 m², 17.5m high) — useful plants from the tropics.
- Tropical Rain Forest House (about 24 meters high) — two rooms for Lowland and Montane climates, emphasizing plants of South-east Asia.
- Savanna House — tropical and subtropical plants from semi-arid savanna areas, with zones for the Americas, Africa, and Australia.
As of 2007 the garden supported eight researchers in
pedology
.
See also
References
- ^ "About the Tsukuba Botanical Garden". www.bgci.org. BGCI Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
Tsukuba Botanical Garden is located in Tsukuba city Ibaraki Pref. about 70 km north of Tokyo. The garden is primarily established for an experimental station of botany particularly on taxonomy as well as for education of botany for the public. The garden occupies ca.14 ha.(36 acres) and has c.5000 taxa of domestic and exotic plants from not only temperate but also tropical as well as humid areas of the world.
- OCLC 66417552.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tsukuba Botanical Garden.
- Tsukuba Botanical Garden
- National Science Museum
- BGCI entry
- "Tsukuba Jikken Shokubutsuen kenkyū hōkoku = Annals of the Tsukuba Botanical Garden". Tsukuba Jikken Shokubutsuen Kenkyū Hōkoku = Annals of the Tsukuba Botanical Garden. Kokuritsu Kagaku Hakubutsukan Tsukuba Jikken Shokubutsuen. 1983. OCLC 639462341. - Journal produced by the Tsukuba Botanical Garden
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