From Borneo to Bolivia, the seventeen hundred species of plants at the
conservatory represent unusual and often endangered flora from the tropical forests of more than fifty countries around the world. Like a belt that wraps around the earth's midsection, the tropics lie along the equator between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. They include many countries in Central and South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Tropical plants are as diverse as the countries they grow in. Read about some of our many featured plants here.
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