Lushan Botanical Garden
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Lushan Botanical Garden, officially Lushan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a botanical garden located within Mount Lu of Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China. It is the first subtropica
Greenhouse in the Lushan Botanical Garden
Hu Xiansu
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Hu Xiansu or Hu Hsen-Hsu, courtesy name Buzeng, art name Chan'an, was a Chinese botanist and polymath. He was the founder of modern botany in China, and a pioneer of paleobotany in the country. His mo
Lushan Botanical Garden
…Mount Lu of Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China. It is the first subtropical mountain botanical garden in China. It was founded on 20 August 1934 by Hu Hsen-Hsu, Ren-Chang Ching, and Chen Fenghuai, under the name Lushan Forest Botanical Garden. Since its founding, its affiliation and name has gone through several…
Hu in 1940
Hu Xiansu and Hu Shih in 1925, Hu Shih titled this picture "the nemesis friends" due to the friendship between the pair despite disagreements over culture and politics.
"Three Founders tomb", burial site of Chen Fenghuai (left), Hu Xiansu (center) and Ren-Chang Ching (right) at the Lushan Botanical Garden