Yingzhou Ecological Park () is an ecological park located in Xiaozhou Village,
Xinjiao Town, in the south eastern Haizhu District, Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, China.
History
The park was founded during the
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty ( ; zh, c=元朝, p=Yuáncháo), officially the Great Yuan (; Mongolian language, Mongolian: , , literally 'Great Yuan State'), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after Div ...
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and covers over , with more than 50,000 fruit trees. These include Lingnan fruits, Shixia
longan
''Dimocarpus longan'', commonly known as the longan () and dragon's eye, is a tropical tree species that produces edible fruit. It is one of the better-known tropical members of the soapberry family Sapindaceae, to which the lychee and rambu ...
, red carambola,
wampee
''Clausena lansium'', also known as wampee or wampi (from Cantonese ),''Oxford English Dictionary'', "wampee" is a species of strongly scented evergreen trees 3–8 m tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to southeast Asia.
Its leaves are smooth ...
,
lychee
Lychee ( , ; ''Litchi chinensis''; ) is a monotypic taxon and the sole member in the genus ''Litchi'' in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae.
There are three distinct subspecies of lychee. The most common is the Indochinese lychee found in So ...
,
guava
Guava ( ), also known as the 'guava-pear', is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. The common guava '' Psidium guajava'' (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family (Myrtaceae), nativ ...
and
papaya
The papaya (, ), papaw, () or pawpaw () is the plant species ''Carica papaya'', one of the 21 accepted species in the genus '' Carica'' of the family Caricaceae, and also the name of its fruit. It was first domesticated in Mesoamerica, within ...
.
See also
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Xiaoguwei
*
Guangzhou University Town
References
External links
Yingzhou Ecological Park official website
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Parks in Guangdong
Tourist attractions in Guangzhou
Haizhu District