Mangbanaxi Exotic Garden

　　 “Mangbanaxi” means magical, beautiful, and bountiful. Wandering through the Exotic Garden, you’ll encounter rare thousand-year-old osmanthus trees, thousand-year-old boxwoods, thousand-year-old crape myrtles, and hundred-million-year-old petrified wood jade stones everywhere. The garden blooms with flowers in spring, offers shade in summer, bears fruit in autumn, and remains green in winter—like a wonderfully magical world that leaves visitors in awe.

　　 The Mangbanaxi Exotic Garden is located southeast of Luxi City, Dehong Prefecture, and is a national 4A-level scenic spot. It has been developed into a high-quality attraction featuring an ancient, natural, and exotic charm, and is a rare ecological garden in China. The garden houses a large collection of ancient and famous trees rarely seen in China, as well as world-rare petrified wood and jade stones. Its characteristics are: rare, unique, ancient, and peculiar, making it a highlight of premium tourism and a treasure trove of subtropical plant genes. The Mangbanaxi Exotic Garden in Dehong boasts four national superlatives: the greatest number and oldest age of ancient and famous trees; the largest size and highest number of quality specimens among rare stones and petrified wood jade stones, especially the world-rare petrified jade; the most beautiful, uniquely shaped, and highest-grade large root carvings; and the greatest number of successfully transplanted large trees with the highest survival rate.

　　 The Exotic Garden is full of oddities. The term “rare” refers to numerous rare plants, including living fossils under national first- and second-class protection such as alsophila spinulosa, cycas pectinata, ginkgo, dendrobium, platycerium, boxwood, camphor tree, angiopteris, and bird’s nest fern. “Unique” refers to peculiar shapes, such as banyan trees resembling dinosaurs, sea lions, or flower baskets, oddly-shaped living root carvings like frangipani, and various forms of stalactites. There are over 500 ancient and famous trees over a hundred years old, thousand-year-old osmanthus trees, thousand-year-old crape myrtles, and thousand-year-old boxwoods, as well as ten-thousand-year-old ivory fossils and hundred-million-year-old petrified wood jade stones. “Peculiar” refers to the bizarre, such as trees enveloping stones, trees growing within trees, hollow trees, plant strangulation, flowers with two colors, and flowers resembling peacocks.

　　 The Banyan Garden features over 400 banyan trees of 16 varieties across two major types—large-leaf and small-leaf—lush and verdant, a delightful sight. The Bougainvillea Garden has over 2,000 bougainvillea plants of 11 varieties and 9 flower colors, blooming year-round in vibrant hues. The Crape Myrtle Garden contains over 500 (potted) crape myrtles of 3 varieties, flowering vibrantly in summer. The Osmanthus Garden has over 200 ancient osmanthus trees of 3 varieties, blooming golden in autumn with a rich fragrance. The garden’s frangipani flowers feature white petals streaked with yellow, elegant and fragrant. The Bonsai Garden displays over 1,000 potted plants and rock bonsai, each uniquely shaped and strikingly varied. There’s also an Exotic Stone Corridor, featuring over 20 tree species, petrified wood and jade stones of various sizes, along with carvings, raw jade stones, and other oddities. The Premium Exhibition Room showcases numerous invaluable exotic stones, fossils, and petrified jade masterpieces, as well as rarely-seen large root carvings nationwide.

　　 Five Highlights:

　　 Ancient Charm:

　　 Home to over 800 ancient trees over a hundred years old, including 4 thousand-year-old trees. Features large root carvings of thousand-year-old yew, black rosewood, and fragrant fruit trees.

　　 Magical:

　　 Includes living fossils from the dinosaur era—alsophila spinulosa. Houses over 100-million-year-old petrified wood and 250-million-year-old petrified jade (rare worldwide). Showcases over 100 exotic stones from home and abroad, with multiple displays of jade, emerald, water stones, and fossil stools.

　　 Natural:

　　 Features vast subtropical rainforest vegetation, numerous naturally-formed rocks, water stones, fossils, jade stones, stone gallstones, and root carvings. Over 60 free-roaming green peacocks and blue peacocks play freely in the garden, showcasing nature’s boundless beauty.

　　 Elegant:

　　 Towering bamboo groves, lush green banyans, golden osmanthus, camphor trees, ferns, and cycads, along with miniature mountain scenes, bridges over flowing water, thatched cottages, small pavilions, winding paths leading to serene spots—offering infinitely elegant scenery.

　　 Beautiful:

　　 Colorful bougainvillea blooms year-round, fiery red crape myrtles vie for attention in June, fragrant golden osmanthus blossoms in August, while unique dendrobium, pleione, vanda, and desert roses display vivid colors—the garden bursts with splendid beauty.