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After visiting the museum, we were given a tour of the herbarium and some of the garden.
This is the herbarium building. It's a very modern facility with compactors for the cases.
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Every herbarium has stuff to process and these look like parts of presses that need to be sorted and put away.
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We signed the visitor's log. This is Jim Doyle signing in.
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The collection is stored in compactor cases. To open an aisle the wheels on the case are turned.
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Sean Graham and YQ examining some specimens. I annotated quite a few sheets in Orobanchaceae while we were there.
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The administration center is near the herbarium.
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After that short tour of the herbarium, we were taken by cart to tour the garden. I'm not quite sure what this sculpture represents, but it was rather large.
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Now, that's a huge leaf. Sean Graham is standing there for scale.
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The mountains in Xishuangbanna are very beautiful - when you can see them through the haze, that is.
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Musaceae - very interesting plant there in the foreground.
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Another view of the mountain and a pavillion.
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Our private coach for the tour.
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It seemed as if most of the gardening tasks were done by hand.
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An avenue line with
palms.
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This was interesting - a group of Dai people touring the garden. Our guide told us that the Dai like to dress alike when they travel as a group of friends. The guy standing on the right was filming.
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We visited the bamboo collection, which was very impressive. There were 250 species growing in the part of the garden. I had no idea about how diverse this genus is until seeing this collection.
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I love the colors of these stems.
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YQ is showing me the defense mechanism of this species of bamboo. . .
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Spines galore.
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Graffitti, Chinese style.
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And graffitti, Dai style.
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There are a lot of interesting little display and shelter areas in the garden. I enjoyed seeing the water gardens.
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A different angle of that water garden.
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This tangle of vegetation is growing through a well.
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The late afternoon sun made for some scenic views.
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The cycad garden was also lovely in the late afternoon glow.
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Some Dai people touring the garden.
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One of the many species of butterfly that inhabit the garden. I really enjoyed the diversity of butterflies - I wish I could have photographed them all, but they never stayed in one place long enough for me to get a good picture.
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I found these ants to be very interesting, too. They had hairs on their posterior segment.
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