When you think of Wuhan Botanical Garden, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Is it a natural beauty comparable to a fairytale forest?It is a variety of flowers that bloom one after another in all seasonsOr is it a popular science garden for walking babies to check in?
If that's all there is to it, then you are underestimating the Wuhan Botanical Garden. After all, the full name of the Wuhan Botanical Garden is the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the title of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is in front, and it is quite involuted: not only is there a lot of talents, but a number of scientific research and breeding achievements are far ahead in the country.
How many volumes are there?Let's go and take a look with Xiaodong!
As one of the three core botanical gardens in China, Wuhan Botanical Garden is positioned as a comprehensive research base for national plant resource reserves and ex situ plant conservation.
You know what, there isMore than 13,000 plant resourcesIt is collected and conserved here.
This means that if you consistently collect one plant a day, it will take you 35 years to collect all the plants in the botanical garden.
60.7% of the rare and endangered plants in Central China are effectively protected here, which also includes ex situ conservationThere are nearly 2,000 species of ancient relics, rare and endangered plants endemic to ChinaBasically realize the full coverage of rare and endangered plants in Hubei.
At first glance, it is all numbers, but the details are all top-level scientific research results.
And if that's not enough to surprise you, the botanical garden, which is about the size of six standard football fields and is the world's largest kiwifruit research base, will always give you a little shock.
One of the scientific research tasks is to breed varieties of kiwifruit that can be mass-produced and delicious.
There are as many as 45 varieties of kiwifruit in the botanical garden, which are widely cultivated throughout the country.
Kiwifruit has gone to Europe and South America, forming an international brand, and is sold in high-end markets in more than 20 countries around the world
Many tourists and friends who have come to taste the fresh ones in person do not hesitate to praise and say that they have eaten the kiwifruit of the Wuhan Botanical Garden, and then eaten other kiwifruit.
And these are inseparableHuang Renhuang, one of the founders of China's kiwifruit industry, Huang Lao, and many outstanding scientists have worked hard for nearly half a century.
In addition, Wuhan Botanical Garden is also one of the earliest scientific research institutes engaged in the conservation, research and application of aquatic plants in China, and has now built a global aquatic plant research highland.
With the unremitting efforts of researchers represented by Huang Guozhen, the father of water lilies in China, the botanical garden has planted nearly 200 kinds of water lily treasures from all over the world.
It is not only the most abundant water lily appreciation area in Wuhan, but also an innovative experimental platform for the hybrid of water lily germplasm resources, gathering many newly developed varieties.
Covering an area of 1The 60,000-square-meter lotus pond contains more than 200 varieties of rare lotus flowers, including thousand-petal lotus and space lotus.
Every year in the middle of summer, the water lilies and lotus flowers in the C position will vividly stage a dreamlike visual feast.
Not to mention the peony garden, rhododendron garden, herb garden and other professional gardens in the rare grasses, all kinds of flowers, dazzling.
These places will always be the best places for everyone to enjoy the flowers in all seasons.
If you're just going to the Botanical Gardens, those plants won't tell you so much trivia.
But to tell you quietly,The newly built Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientist Spirit Education Base on the first floor of the herbarium of Wuhan Botanical Garden has revealed the story behind these botanical gardens!Please see!
Beyond the central lawn of the Botanical Garden, you will come to the herbarium. The herbarium made of red bricks and white walls seems to be simple and unpretentious, but in fact it is deeply hidden in merit and fame.
In front of the museum building, the statues of Zhang Wencai, Chen Fenghuai, and Sun Xiangzhong, the founders of the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, sit in the town, suggesting that there is a lot of hidden here.
It is currently the largest herbarium in central China, with more than 300,000 vascular plant specimens.
The newly built Scientist Spirit Education Base is located in one of its corners.
Walking into the herbarium, you will also enter the preface hall of the scientist spirit education base.
Looking at the slogan of "Inheriting the Torch and Building Dreams of Science" in front of him, he followed the footsteps of his ancestors and officially began the exploration journey of the base.
The entire exhibition hall is mainly divided into:Contribute Chinese wisdom to plant science, write the best on the land of the motherland, inherit the spirit of the ancestors, and the tree of science is evergreenThree major parts.
The museum introduces in detail the rise and development of modern botany in China, the development process of Wuhan Botanical Garden for more than 60 years, and the important contributions and touching stories of relevant scientists.
Although the area of the whole base is not large, it is full of essence, which is worth learning and understanding slowly.
Mr. Hu Xianqiao, the founder of plant taxonomy in China, Mr. Chen Fenghuai, the father of the Chinese Botanical Garden, and other scientists, as well as Huang Renhuang, one of the founders of China's kiwifruit cause, Huang Guozhen, the father of Chinese water lilies, and other modern scientists have made lifelong contributions and achievements, which are enough to glimpse one or two in the work manuals, documents, and ** on display.
The second part of the real-life display area is a highly restored scene of the hard work and scientific research scenes of the older generation of scientists in the field.
There are towering trees all over the place, each marked with a DBH mark.
In the imperceptible corners, there are phenological cameras hidden to prevent damage from birds and beasts, as well as tents stationed on the spot, quadrat record sheets with a heavy sense of age, backpacks, water bottles and other utensils ......
As soon as I got close to here, the wind was loud and the sound of birds was everywhere, and I immersed myself in the difficulty of scientific research.
Stepping into the third part of the exhibition hall, you can not only see the inheritance of the spirit of scientists in the new era, but also a series of influential scientific research achievements made by the reform, innovation and development of Wuhan Botanical Garden.
There is also a miniature contemporary science laboratory with beautifully painted botanical science drawings and a variety of new scientific equipment and materialsMy science labThe botanical charm and scientist spirit exuded everywhere can deeply attract every passer-by who visits here.
It is no exaggeration to say that the newly built scientific spirit education base is a historical illustration of Wuhan Botanical Garden, and it is also a spiritual bonanza that belongs exclusively to botanical enthusiasts.
*It is expected that after New Year's Day, the Wuhan Botanical Garden Scientist Spirit Education Base will be officially opened, please pay attention to the official WeChat of Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences for details and reservation methods***
Next time you come to the Botanical Garden, be sure to visit the Scientist Spirit Education Base. While getting close to nature, you can also get all kinds of interesting knowledge, and the incomparable sense of harvest is comfortable enough for adults and novel enough for children.
I just don't know, will you be tempted to ask: Wuhan Botanical Garden, how many surprises do you have that I don't know?