Visiting the Xiamen Botanical Garden (China)

Covering an area of 4.93 square kilometers, the Xiamen Botanical Garden (also known as Wanshi Botanical Garden / 万石植物园 or '10,000 Stones Plant Garden') is set amidst Wanshi Mountain in the southeastern part of Xiamen Island. One way to get to a back gate of the garden near the top of the mountain is to take a trail from the back of Nanputuo Temple and hike up and over the mountain.
The garden, first built in 1960, contains more than 6,300 kinds of tropical and subtropical ornamental plants and comprises 10-plus unique smaller dedicated gardens, such as the psammophytes area, the “Palm Island”, the “Rainforest World”, and the araucaria lawn.
In 1984, Deng Xiaoping personally planted a Nepal camphor on the araucaria lawn.
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