Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) is located in Mengla County of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Founded in 1959, the botanical garden fosters more than 13,000 species of plants in its 35 living collections. The garden has developed into one of the biggest tropical botanical gardens in China and across Asia. (CCTV.com)
Mild climate and agreeable temperature have turned Xishuangbanna in southwest China's Yunnan Province into a kingdom of countless plant species where flowers of different shapes and colors bloom all year long. Today, we continue the compilations of flowers that have bloomed each month throughout this year at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden. Here is our November collection. Also, you may not want to miss the collection of December blossoms.
The China National Botanical Garden was officially inaugurated in Beijing on Monday, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said. With a planned area of 600 hectares, the national botanical garden builds upon the work of the Institute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Botanical Garden. The national botanical garden has more than 30,000 kinds of plants and 5 million representative plant specimens from five continents.
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