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'Hungry' visitors pilfer protected plants at botanical garden to use in cooking
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PLANTS on exhibition at a botanical garden, including some endangered and nationally protected plants, have become popular cooking ingredients for tourists in southern Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Daily reported today.
Vegetation theft is a frequent problem, said Liao Jingping, deputy director of the Horticulture Center of the South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou.
Liao said a number of plants at the garden’s herbal park are stolen to make soup during different seasons and three theft cases have been discovered this fall.
In addition to the herbal park, the fern park also has been targeted by tourists, Liao said. He said he once stopped visitors who believed that a rare type of fern under nation-level protection, Alsophila podophylla, was allowed to be picked for cooking.
Tourists have also carved characters into wide and flat cactus stems, according to the report. And morning exercisers stretch by pulling branches of a huge tree, Elaeocarpus apiculatus, toward the ground to use as horizontal bars.
More than 200 surveillance cameras have been installed at the garden along with 50 security guards to protect the plants. Liao said he hopes tourists will learn to protect plants in the garden or they will have to resort to fining offenders or calling the police.
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