Brief Introduction
Located in Menglun town of Menglai county around 80km away from Jinghong city, Menglun Tropical Plant Garden is the largest tropical botanical garden in China.

It was established in 1959 by Chinese famous botanists including Prof. Cai Xitao, who devoted all his life to related scientific research with remarkable achievements.

Features
The garden boasts more than 4000 species of tropical plants covering an area of 900 hectares, quite a few of which are rare elsewhere, forming a colorful botanical landscape. Thousands of varieties of tropical and subtropical plants from home and abroad are growing there. It is called the "Green Gem on the Crown of the Kingdom of Plants" and is the first embryo of the "Biological Society of Multi-levels and Multi-varieties".

Visitors can admire many precious plant varieties here, such as the dragon tree, the mayten wood, the poisonous upas-tree, the cement wall like big root, the thirst relieving "carrying pole vine" and the "strelitziaceae", the "clock flower" opening and closing along with the sunrise and sunset, the "dancing grass" in response to sounds, the "king lotus" able to hold a sitting child, and the "miracle fruit" able to turn sour to sweet, etc.