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{{Short description|Park with botanical garden located at Wakayama, Japan}}
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[[File:RyokkaCenter.JPG|thumb|Wakayama Prefecture Botanical Park]]
The {{nihongo|'''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 [[Nymphaea|lotus]] pond (3,000 m<sup>2</sup>); and collections of [[camellia]] (2,000 m<sup>2</sup>, 80 varieties), [[hydrangea]] (2,000 m<sup>2</sup>, 75 varieties, including 35 Japanese varieties), medicinal plants (600 m<sup>2</sup>), and [[plum]] trees (1,000 m<sup>2</sup>, 33 varieties).

== See also ==
* [[List of botanical gardens in Japan]]

== References ==
* [http://www.midorikousha.jp/01.html Wakayama Prefecture Botanical Park (Japanese)]
* [http://www.jardinsbotaniquesjaponais.fr/Wakayama.htm Jardins Botaniques Japonais (French)]

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[[Category:Botanical gardens in Japan]]
[[Category:Gardens in Wakayama Prefecture]]


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