The South Garden of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden is a new park. Construction began in 1999. It is divided into 11 areas according to the focus of the landscape: Tropical Plant Palace, Grass Garden, Botanical Garden for the Blind, Red Maple Ridge Scenic Area, Bonsai Garden, Rose Garden, and Medicine Garden.

, Pine and Cypress Garden, Arboretum, Plant Classification System Garden, Nature Trail - Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden Natural Education Zone, which collects more than 3,000 species of living plants.

These 11 areas mainly display plant landscapes, taking into account the functions of science popularization and leisure tours. The South Park was opened to the public on National Day in 2007 and was named "Jiangsu Botanical Expo Park of the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences".

Name Introduction Picture Tropical Plant Palace Tropical Plant Palace is located in the northwest of Qianhu Lake, covering an area of ??10,000 square meters. Its appearance is like three crystal green leaves rising from Qianhu Lake and standing at the foot of Purple Mountain.

The Tropical Plant Palace is divided into three major exhibition areas, collecting more than 2,000 species of rare plants. The exhibition themes are "Plant Wonders" and "Plants and Humans".

The first area is the tropical flower and fruit area, which displays tropical fruit trees, tropical economic plants and tropical flowers that are closely related to human life.

The second area is the tropical rainforest plant area, where visitors can see "Strangles", "Single Tree Forest", "Stem Roots", "Old Stems Blossoming, Old Stems Fruiting", "Network of Vine Trees" and "Aerial Trees".

Garden" and other unique and unique landscapes in the tropical rain forest.

The third area is an arid and semi-arid tropical plant area, including the country's largest succulent root plant sleeping bag, the unique Australian plant Bottle Tree known as the "Desert Water Tower", the rare plant Turtle-shelled Dragon native to South Africa and the "mimetic plant"

"Lithops, coneflower, etc."

Here visitors can enjoy exotic flowers and plants from all over the world and plant landscapes from different climate zones and ecological regions.

The Tropical Plant Palace is not only a plant resource research and experimental center, but also an important base for youth science education and a tourist attraction for citizens.

The Grass Garden is located on the east side of the South Garden of Nanjing Zhongshan Botanical Garden. It is located in a triangle on the east side of the new main entrance. It covers an area of ??20,000 square meters and collects more than 400 species of plants from more than 100 genera of Gramineae.

It is divided into four areas: germplasm resource nursery, East China native plant display area, plant function display area, and landscape display area.

According to the existing terrain and the evolution process of the Gramineae family, the main representative species of eight subfamilies, including the Bamboo subfamily and the Oryzae subfamily, were planted in sequence, vividly demonstrating the systematic evolution process of the Gramineae family.

The garden is equipped with large trees and flowering shrubs. It is a display base for the botanical garden's grass research results and a science popularization base for teenagers.

The grass garden is divided into three main parts: a small courtyard with low walls, a lawn leisure area and a variety display area.

1. Small courtyard with low walls.

At the main entrance of the South Garden, there is a group of small courtyards enclosed by low stone walls and hedges. There are wooden platforms and pools in between. Various ornamental grasses and ground cover plants are arranged in the form of flower mirrors against the background of the low walls.

In the courtyard.

2. Lawn leisure area.

It is located in the middle area of ??the grass garden, east of the Blind Botanical Garden.

A large area of ??relatively complete lawn and gracefully scattered trees form a quiet and comfortable sparse forest and grassland landscape.

The large lawn is surrounded by relatively dense trees, shrubs, and grasses, and a three-dimensional arrangement of trees and flowerbeds.

3. Variety display area.

In the northern part of the grass garden, more than 100 species of domestic and foreign grass plants are concentratedly displayed. The display area is divided into several small areas with naturally curved paths. Different types of grass plants such as lawns, pastures, and cash crops are arranged in categories, while taking into account ornamental viewing.

sex and science.

Bonsai Garden The Bonsai Garden covers an area of ??6,000 square meters.

The garden takes advantage of the botanical garden's rich plant resources and numerous ancient piles and strange rocks to integrate natural beauty and artificial beauty.

The garden collects more than 500 exquisite pots of tree stumps, water stones, floods and droughts, flowers and fruits, and miniature bonsais.

Rose Garden The Rose Garden was founded in 1982 and completed in 1985. It is located on the right side of the south gate of the Botanical Garden. It mainly collects roses. It also plants other plants of the Rosaceae family and some famous ornamental plants, such as plum blossoms, magnolias, winter jasmine, and Chinese roses.

, rose, rhododendron, camellia, peony, peony, etc.

In spring and summer, various flowers bloom. The garden also has a 220-square-meter pool and a 90-square-meter corridor-style scaffolding. Aquatic ornamental plants such as king lilies, water lilies, and yellow irises are planted in the pool.

Medicine Garden The Medicine Garden covers an area of ??20,000 square meters and collects more than 700 species of medicinal plants, belonging to 131 families and 429 genera.

It contains specialty Chinese herbal medicines originating from China: barberry, camptotheca acacia, horse chestnut, dioscorea, aesculus, coptis, etc.

According to the medicinal parts and ecological habits, the garden is divided into root and rhizome medicinal areas, flower, fruit and seed medicinal areas, stems and leaves complete medicinal areas, vine medicinal areas and negative medicinal areas. In memory of Li Shizhen, a herbalist from the Ming Dynasty in China, in 1983

A national-style building named Shizhen Pavilion was built in the garden.

Pine and Cypress Garden Pine and Cypress Garden covers an area of ??70,000 square meters and collects and preserves 119 species of domestic and foreign coniferous trees such as Pinaceae, Cypressaceae, and Cupressaceae.

The garden has a rich collection of coniferous and cypress plants, including Zhongshan cypress, pencil cypress, and patches of metasequoia, pond fir and bald cypress bred in the garden.

The Pine and Cypress Garden is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with dense trees, a quiet environment, fresh air, birds, insects, and streams. It is a suitable place for fitness exercises and forest bathing.