South China Botanical Garden

With an area of about 741 hectares, the South China Botanical Garden is the oldest and largest tropical botanical garden in South Asia. It is located about 8 kilometers north of the city of Guangzhou.

The garden was founded in 1929 by botanist Chen Huanyen and was created to study ecology, systematic and evolutionary botany and biotechnology. There are 2,400 plant species in the garden, which is why it is also known as the Tropical and Subtropical Botanical Museum.

It consists of three parts: a children’s and exhibition area, a research area and a reserve, which is the first in China.