论文部分内容阅读
斯里兰卡康堤(Kandy)皇家植物园(Royal Botanic Gardens)距斯里兰卡第二大城市康堤约半小时车程,占地面积59公顷,始建干公元1371年,曾经是康堤国王的御花园。英国殖民时期于1821年重建并由英国人管理。斯里兰卡独立后,植物园又几经改建,引入了更多经济作物和药用植物,现在是仅次于印度尼西亚茂物植物园的亚洲第二大植物园,也是世界上最好的热带植物园之一。康堤皇家植物园三面有马哈威利(Mahaweli)河环绕,种植收藏了超过4000种斯里兰卡本土以及来自亚洲、
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kandy, Sri Lanka is about half an hour’s drive from Kandy, the second largest city in Sri Lanka. It covers an area of 59 hectares and was originally built in 1371 AD. It was once the royal garden of King Kandy. The British colonial period was rebuilt in 1821 and was run by the British. After Sri Lanka’s independence, the Botanic Gardens have been rebuilt to introduce more cash crops and medicinal plants. Now it is the second largest botanical garden in Asia after the Bogor Botanical Garden in Indonesia and one of the best tropical botanical gardens in the world. Surrounded by the Mahaweli River on three sides, the Kandy Royal Botanical Gardens have a collection of more than 4,000 Sri Lankan natives, as well as from Asia,