Human and Biodiversity Area

You can see the plants that are indispensable for daily life, such as those used for food, clothing, shelter, or as decorations. You can see the useful tropical plants such as banana or cacao in the tropical resource plant greenhouse. There is a corner for endangered plants.

Outdoor

Useful Plant Area, East　

Useful Plant Area, East

This area contains plants used as not only foods including wild and vegetable, cloth, timber but also culture and ceremony.

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Various Vegetables

Gossypium arboreum; used for cloth

Useful Plant Area, Central

Useful Plant Area, Central 

This area features a collection of roses and bulbous plants that have since ancient times been used for ornamental purposes, and varieties of herbs and other plants that are believed to have soothing effects. Visitors can relax on the benches in the grassy area.

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Useful Plant Area, Central

Rosa‘Prosperity’

Useful Plant Area, West

Useful Plant Area, West

Fruit trees, medicinal plants, and ornamental plants from Japan and elsewhere are grown and displayed in this area.

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Tetragonotheca helianthoides

Colchicum autumnale; used for medicinal purposes

Endangered plants area

Endangered plants

An increase in the number of endangered plant species will lead to a serious reduction in biodiversity. Endangered plant species native to Japan are displayed in this area so that visitors can understand the importance of biodiversity conservation.

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Tricyrtis macranthopsis

Platycodon grandlflorum

Mt.Tsukuba Plant Area

Mt.Tsukuba Plant

Mt. Tsukuba, one of the most popular mountains in Japan, is known to have huge biodiversity. As the altitude increases, the vegetation changes from evergreen broad-leaved and warm-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests to temperate coniferous forests and cool-temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests. In this area, many plants whose names originated from the word "Tsukuba", and those firstly found in this mountain.

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Ajuga yesoensisvar.tsukubana

Aconitum japonicumssp.maritimum

Fern garden

Fern garden

More than 1,000 individuals of approximately 210 fern species are grown here. In the area, there are ferns distributed around Tsukuba, ferns distributed from Japan to the Himalaya, natural hybrids and its putative parents, and apomictic ferns.

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Huge collection of wild ferns

A treasure trove of ferns. Definitely worth a visit.

A natural hybrid (Dryopteris toyamae) and its putative parent (D. sieboldiiandD. uniformis)

Clematis garden

Clematis garden 

Approximately 1,200 plants belonging to more than 250 kinds of clematis including wild species and cultivars are grown in a field that is open for public viewing when the flowers are in bloom mainly in May. Japanese species and cultivars such as Clematis patens were taken to Europe to create many horticultural varieties. The Tsukuba Botanical Garden is devoting its energies to the collection and preservation of mutant varieties of the endangered Clematis patens, a variety that is unique to Japan.

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Clematis garden (photo taken in early June)

The endangeredClematis patens(from Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan)

Indoor

Useful Plants House

Useful Plants House

Economic plants from tropical countries such as fruit trees, medicinal plants, spices, ornamentals, and others are displayed.

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Useful Plant House

Cacao (Theobroma cacao)