Luís de Camões Plant Nursery

#2023travelwish. #awesomepic #campingglamping #foodie #mytripvlog #本地遊 #tripblazers #nationalpark. Between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century, English merchants and botanists invited by him visited the Luís de Camões Garden to collect plants and take them to be planted in the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew. in London, England. Since then, some of the species introduced in Macao with these exchanges began to grow naturally, with the Luís de Camões Garden becoming almost a botanical garden that records the history of exchanges between China and the West. Among the plants in the Garden of Luís de Camões, we can find the exotic red acacia (Delonix regia), a species of tree native to Madagascar and of which it can be considered the most representative. The place where the Jardim de Luís de Camões is located was formerly known as Colina da Fénix, as the red acacias placed there had leaves whose appearance resembled the feathers of a phoenix, hence the name "phoenix tree" in Chinese. That's how this designation came about, Macau being most likely the first place where the red acacia began to be part of the Chinese landscape.