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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.
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