Pterocymbium macranthum has orange-yellow to orange-red gradient flowers and a trunk that can grow up to 35 to 45 meters in height, according to TAN Yunhong, a professor at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

In a study published in PNAS, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Freie Universit？t Berlin and Rutgers University showed that the dance of the returning honeybee forager conveys the direction and distance of the food source from the hive to the honeycomb surface, a kind of map—a representation of where the food source is.

In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) present that hemiepiphytic figs benefit from lessening phosphorus (P) competition by killing their hosts in the P-deficient tropics, and hemiepiphytic figs can adapt to changing habitats via functional trait trade-offs during the host-killing process.

Recently, king lotus (Victoria amazonica) leaves have entered their best viewing season at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in southwest China’s Yunnan Province, attracting flocks of tourists to the park for an amazing experience on top the floating lotus leaves.