Appreciating rare blooms in botanic park
March 15, 2013, Friday
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CHENSHAN Botanic Park in Songjiang District will be awash with spring flowers to feast the eyes on.
Already in bloom are the parrotia subaequalism, a red-blossoming shrub indigenous to China and only discovered in the late 1950s. It's now under government protection as one of the nation's oldest known plants, along with gingko, dawn redwood and the cathaya argyrophylla, also known as the Cathay silver fir.
Parrotia subaequalis can be found today only in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, Jinzhai in Anhui Province and Anji in Zhejiang Province.
Visitors to Chenshan can also enjoy other early spring flowers, such as pink cherry blossoms, snow-white honeysuckles and cycas debaoensis - another plant species under protection from not only the Chinese government but also the World Conservation Union.
(Wing Tan)
? Chenshan Botanic Park
Date: Through October 31, 8am–5:30pm
Address: 3888 Chenhua Rd, Songjiang District
Tel: 3779-2288 Ext 800
Admission: 60 yuan
How to get there:
By public transport: Dongjing Station Metro Line 9 and then transfer to Songjiang bus line No. 19
By car: G60 Songjiang New City exit. Turn right on Jiasong Road and then left on Chenhua Road.
Already in bloom are the parrotia subaequalism, a red-blossoming shrub indigenous to China and only discovered in the late 1950s. It's now under government protection as one of the nation's oldest known plants, along with gingko, dawn redwood and the cathaya argyrophylla, also known as the Cathay silver fir.
Parrotia subaequalis can be found today only in the city of Yixing in Jiangsu Province, Jinzhai in Anhui Province and Anji in Zhejiang Province.
Visitors to Chenshan can also enjoy other early spring flowers, such as pink cherry blossoms, snow-white honeysuckles and cycas debaoensis - another plant species under protection from not only the Chinese government but also the World Conservation Union.
(Wing Tan)
? Chenshan Botanic Park
Date: Through October 31, 8am–5:30pm
Address: 3888 Chenhua Rd, Songjiang District
Tel: 3779-2288 Ext 800
Admission: 60 yuan
How to get there:
By public transport: Dongjing Station Metro Line 9 and then transfer to Songjiang bus line No. 19
By car: G60 Songjiang New City exit. Turn right on Jiasong Road and then left on Chenhua Road.
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