Chongming Lotus Expo Garden is located to the east of Mingzhu Lake Park and to the south of Chongming West Sand Wetland Park in Shanghai. It is one of the largest display and breeding scales of rare lotus varieties both domestically and internationally in the Shanghai area. The garden integrates the cultivation, appreciation, tasting, and tea-making of lotus flowers, and features multifunctional facilities for lotus culture research, scientific popularization, and ecological leisure tourism and entertainment.
Chongming Lotus Expo Garden has currently built 100 ‘Graceful and Diverse’ viewing pools, 6 ‘Beautiful and Colorful’ flower appreciation pavilions, 200 meters of ‘Mindful Leisure’ flower tasting corridors, a 2000 square meter rich and colorful flower art product exhibition and shopping area, and a four-season lotus viewing shed. Additionally, there is a 500 square meter Lotus Fairy multifunctional tourist entertainment square, a 3000 square meter lawn square for tourist leisure, and a 100 square meter tourist reception center. The garden also features a parking lot that can accommodate 400 vehicles at a time.
Currently, the garden has more than 6,000 plants of flowers and trees such as osmanthus, ginkgo, begonia, and crape myrtle, and more than 360 varieties of ornamental lotus, fragrant lotus, and edible lotus, including rare breeds such as ‘Space Lotus’ cultivated in space and ‘Ancient Lotus’ unearthed in Liaoning Province, as well as hundreds of water lily varieties and various rare aquatic plants with high medicinal value.
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