Nong Nooch Tropical Garden (Thailand)

Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden is a 500-acre (2.0 km2)

botanical garden and tourist attraction at kilometer 163 on Sukhumvit

Road in Chonburi Province, Thailand. Pisit and Nongnooch Tansacha

purchased the 600-acre (2.4 km2) plot of land in 1954 with the

intentions of developing the land as a fruit plantation. However, the

owners instead decided to plant tropical flowers and plants as a wildlife

conservation project.

The garden focus on Southeast Asian, Tropical American and Central

Africa species of Cycads*, but a collection of almost every species can

also been seen here.

The garden opened to the public in 1980, and management was

transferred to Pisit and Nongnooch's son Kampon Tansacha in 2001.

Garden divisions: French Garden, European Garden, Stonehenge

Garden, Cactus & Suculent Garden, Variegated Plants, Ant

Tower, Butterfly Hill, Orchid & Bromeliad Display Garden, and Flower

Valley.

*Cycads are seed plants typically characterized by a stout and woody (ligneous)

trunk with a crown of large, hard and stiff, evergreen leaves. They usually have

pinnate leaves.

Source: Wikipedia

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