| The Wakayama Prefecture Botanical Park (和歌山県植物公園緑花センター, Wakayama-ken Shokubutsu Kōen Ryokka Sentā) is a park with botanical garden located at Higashi Sakamoto 672, Iwade, Wakayama, Japan. It is open daily except Tuesdays; an admission fee is charged. The park contains a large tropical greenhouse (fruit trees, bougainvillea, strelitzia, etc.); additional greenhouses for begonia, cactus (about 140 species), and orchid (Cattleya, Cymbidium, and Paphiopedilum); extensive flower plantings; a lotus pond (3,000 m2); and collections of camellia (2,000 m2, 80 varieties), hydrangea (2,000 m2, 75 varieties, including 35 Japanese varieties), medicinal plants (600 m2), and plum trees (1,000 m2, 33 varieties). |
