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World's largest medicinal botanic garden in China
Friday December 09, 2011 07:40:38 PM,
IANS
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Beijing: A medicinal
botanical garden in southwest China has been confirmed by Guinness
World Records as the largest of its kind in the world, a garden
official said Friday.
Located in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and spread over an
area of 202 hectares (over 2 square kilometres), the garden has
been confirmed to be containing the most varieties of medicinal
plants and the largest cultivated area of medicinal plants in the
world, Xinhua reported.
The garden, till date, has saved over 6,000 kinds of living
medicinal plants (including more than 100 endangered varieties and
over 30 new varieties), more than 3,200 kinds of medicinal plant
seeds and 100,000 medicinal plant images.
Built in 1959 by Guangxi's health department, its objective is to
cultivate, collect and save medicinal plants besides conducting
research.
The garden is expected to be built into an advanced international
medicinal plants conservation base and a centre for traditional
Chinese medicine culture and science.
Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is one of China's most
undeveloped provinces. But it is known for its large variety of
herbal medicines and the ethnic minority cultures of Zhuang and
Yao.
A botanical garden is a well-tended area displaying a wide range
of plants labelled with their botanical names. It may contain
special plant collections.
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