Medicinal Herb Garden - Center of Chinese Medicinal - I

History of Medicinal Herb Garden

There is a beautiful and useful medicinal herb garden in this university. The garden was established by Professor Wei-Song Gan in 1965, it is the first garden designed to collect medicinal plants in medicine universities in Taiwan. In 1993, in order to continually develop the unique characteristic for this school, the university further organized a committee to govern this garden. The dean of this department is one of the committee members. In 1996, a book, the guide manual of the medicinal herb garden, was written by the chairman Chao-Lin Kuo to help students to learn the distinguishing of the medicinal plants.

Introduction of the Garden

There are more than 500 various medicinal plants in the garden, including 130 families, 400 genera, most of them are traditional Chinese medicinal plants and folk medicinal plants. The whole garden is divided into two parts of an open district and a culture district, for teaching and visit.

Photographs of Some Medical Plants in the Garden

Tetrastigma formosanum三葉葡萄	Brugmansia suaveolens大花曼陀羅	Pistia stratiotes 大萍	Cyclosoeus acuminate小毛蕨
Ranunculus japonicus 毛茛-花果	Marsilea minuta 田字草	Centella Asiatica 老公根	Porpidia sp. 岩石地衣
Epipremnum pinnatum 拎樹藤	Rubia linii 林氏茜草	Psilotum nudum 松葉蕨	Urtica thunbergiana 咬人貓-花
Procris laevigata 烏來麻	Dioscorea japonica 基隆山藥	Pseudodrynaria coronans and Ginkgo biloba 崖薑蕨銀杏林	Aeginetia indica 野菰
Aeginetia indica 野菰	Aeginetia indica 野菰	Pueraria lobata 野葛	Pueraria lobata 野葛
Lemna minor 朝萍	Phyllocium Pulchellum 牌錢樹	Monachosorm henryi 稀子蕨-孢子-芽	Bauhinia championii 菊花木
Bauhinia championii 菊花木	Bauhinia championii 菊花木	Leaf-shape Porpidia sp. 葉狀地衣	Broussonetia papyrifera 構樹
Broussonetia papyrifera 構樹	Ginkgo biloba 銀杏	Manihot utilissima 樹薯	Manihot utilissima 樹薯
Clerodendrum paniculatum 龍船花	Ehretia acuminata 嶺南白蓮茶	Paederia scandens 雞屎藤

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