Nanning Famous Trees Expo Garden

Nanning Famous Trees Expo Garden

The Nanning Famous Trees Expo Garden is a national key cultural relics protection unit and a UNESCO World Cultural Landscape Heritage site.

The Famous Trees Expo Garden is located at South Lake South Square on the picturesque southern shore of South Lake. It also serves as a training site for emergency response operations. This landmark garden square was jointly built with donations of over 7.8 million yuan from the Nanning municipal government and local citizens.

Opened to the public on November 17, 2002, it is one of Nanning’s key landscape projects in its effort to build a “Green City of China.” The park covers a total area of 301,000 square meters, including 2,636 square meters of water surface and 220,000 square meters of lawn. The garden features 455 specimens of 21 species of precious large trees, including notable plants such as Buddha’s Belly Bamboo, Araucaria, and Taiwan Acacia. In addition, there are 3,919 trees and 630,000 ground-cover plants. The planted large trees mainly consist of native species and subtropical flora, among which over 170 trees have a trunk diameter of more than one meter, and there are more than 300 large palm plants. Twisting ancient banyans, solemn and sacred bodhi trees, unique and luxurious Buddha’s Belly trees—all highlight the “ancient,” “secluded,” “elegant,” and “exotic” qualities of these rare trees, where each notable tree forms a scenic sight in itself.

The garden features 455 specimens of 21 species of precious large trees, such as Buddha’s Belly Bamboo, Araucaria, and Taiwan Acacia, along with a small number of foreign species like Bodhi and Date Palms, plus 3,919 trees and 630,000 ground-cover plants.

The planted large trees mainly include native species and subtropical plants such as banyan trees, mango trees, and royal palms.

There are over 170 trees in the garden with a trunk diameter of more than one meter, and more than 300 large palm plants. The lakeside green area is planted with ornamental trees such as palms, Chinese fan palms, and Alexander palms.

Along the pathways, there are subtropical flowering plants and shrubs rich in ornamental value, such as butterfly fruit, melaleuca, and silver birch. The Hundred Flowers Garden cultivates over a hundred kinds of precious flowers, including Camellia nitidissima.