Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

The botanical garden in Mengla County maintains living scientific collections. Displays and ethnobotanical work also introduce relationships between plants and people.

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

A Living Archive at the Tropical Botanical Garden

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden keeps living collections and a herbarium, two archives that preserve different kinds of botanical evidence.

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A large banyan with aerial roots and a surrounding forest canopy at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.

How a Botanical Garden Organizes Plant Knowledge

Four themed areas at the botanical garden present plants through food, medicine, religion and literature, revealing how institutions interpret human-plant relationships.

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Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden; the photographed views do not identify a particular community’s plant knowledge.

Plants and People at XTBG’s Ethnic Forest Culture Garden

The garden’s themed displays connect plants with food, belief, medicine, literature and the materials of everyday life.

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Photo credits and rights

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Colin W · Taken on 9 November 2007 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Yumeto · 2025-12-25 12:41:08 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden; the photographed views do not identify a particular community’s plant knowledge.Colin W · Taken on 9 November 2007 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.