中国科学院华南植物园是世界上最大的南亚热带植物园,其前身为国立中山大学农林植物研究所和中国科学院华南植物研究所,由著名植物学家陈焕镛院士创建于1929年。华南植物园集科学研究、植物保育、科学传播和植物资源利用于一体,广州迁地保护园区面积为333公顷,保存活植物13,000余种 遵循师法自然的中国园林美学思想,建立了世界级园林旅游景区、木兰园和姜园等30余个世界一流专类园以及特色鲜明的国家级专类园区,被誉为永不落幕的万国奇树博览会和中国南方绿宝石。入选羊城新八景的龙洞琪林(1986)融汇了中式园林和新岭南园林,以恢宏气势展示了激情浪漫的椰风葵林和富于四季景观变幻的温带风情,是一天看四季的世界级经典园林景区。被誉为广州新地标的温室群景区宛如四朵漂在水上的木棉花,展示了博大精深的世界植物奇观和赋予美丽传说的植物世界,是一日游世界的经典旅游景区。广州第一村飞鹅岭新石器时代遗址、南宋抗元名将文天祥的恩师朱澄古墓为广州珍贵的历史人文景观。此外,园内还建有科普信息中心、多媒体讲座室等科普旅游服务设施,开设了科普导游、研究生导游、旅游自行车、婚纱摄影等系列旅游休闲项目。 华南植物园还是AAAA级国家旅游景区、全国青少年科技教育基地、 全国科普教育基地以及植物学与环境教育基地,是广州十佳旅游景点和岭南园林文化游景点。 South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is the biggest south subtropical botanical garden in the world. Founded in 1929 by Woon-young Chun and formerly named as Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Sunyatsen University or South China Institute of Botany of the CAS, the garden is a center of botanical research, biodiversity conservation, scientific education and resource utilization and development, as well as an oasis in the city of Guangzhou-333 ha. of beautiful horticultural display, including magnolias, gingers, palms, orchids and some other special collections with about 13,000 species of living plants. Longdong Qilin was designated as one of the best new scenic spots of Guangzhou. The World of Plants, SCBG Conservatory, was designed as four giant kapok flowers, adopted the city flower of Guangzhou, emerge silently in SCBG in the overlook of Guangzhou municipality. The first village of Guangzhou and a zonal vegetation garden, a conservation center for rare and endangered plants, urban ecological sight garden, and a center for science communication have been constructed with a total investment of RMB 300,000,000 yuan by Guangzhou municipality, Guangdong provincial government and the CAS.