Hunan Forest Botanical Garden
Hunan Forest Botanical Garden among the capital cities - Changsha, established in 1985, is a nonprofit research institute, which is part of the Forestry Department of Hunan Province in 1994 by the former State Forestry Department of Hunan Province approved as a breeding wildlife rescue center.
The whole garden covers an area of 120 hectares, the forest coverage rate up to 90%. Now the park introduction and domestication, moved to preserve the 208 families of plant genera 900 4000 more than 3200 kinds of a plurality of species, accommodating, treatment, domesticated wildlife 112 species include silver fir, dove, and other countries Tragopan a protected plants and animals. The park has been completed Cherry Park, Magnolia Park, shade plants of rare botanical garden, azalea garden, Chuk Yuen, tea garden, Gui Garden, Botanical Garden 10 Coleus plant garden, medicinal garden and are planning to build the world's flowers the famous tree park like designed garden.
Over the years, Forest Botanical Garden hosted a national commitment, the Department, 93 provincial research projects, of which 38 won the provincial Department of Science and Technology Progress Award, published more than 200 papers, writing monographs 10. Park built the province's first, reached the advanced level of plant tissue culture center; built a protected species Tragopan pheasant breeding base in the world's largest population of the country, existing Tragopan pheasant population over a hundred only; also built there are the country's first "forest and wetland biodiversity protection publicity and education center", the Center by the Hunan Provincial Forestry Department and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and the Park Service Fenlansenlin cooperation in the construction, in September 1999, free to the public.
Scenic Address: 111 Arboretum Road district Yuhua
Car lines: in Changsha city by 152.7.102.107.103.123.134.147.502.703.801.802 bus to stop at the Botanical Garden