South Mountain Botanical Garden
South Mountain Botanical Garden is the largest botanical garden in Chongqing. It is a major urban park of central Chongqing, and it is one of the 8 major civil projects of Chongqing Municipal.
It is located on Tongluo Mountain, an anticline range in southeastern edge of central Chongqing area.
Gardens
The botanical garden is divided into many smaller gardens. Rose garden, camellia garden, plum blossom garden, orchis garden and the endangered species garden are the most popular ones.A total of 1646 plant species are raised in the garden, most of which are subtropical low mountain species.
Triassic and Jurassic sedimentary rocks and geological structures are distributed throughout the garden.