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Nong Nooch
Tropical Botanical Garden is a 500-acre (2.0 km2) botanical garden and tourist
attraction at kilometer 163 on Sukhumvit Road in Chonburi Province, Thailand. It
can be reached via bus, taxi or private land transportation. It is also a major
scientific center dedicated to cycads, with its own Cycad Gene Bank. |
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Pisit and
Nongnooch Tansacha purchased the 600-acre (2.4 km2) plot of land in 1954 with
the intentions of developing the land as a fruit plantation. However, the owners
instead decided to plant tropical flowers and plants as a wildlife conservation
project. The garden opened to the public in 1980, and management was transferred
to Pisit and Nongnooch's son Kampon Tansacha in 2001. The garden currently fills
500 out of the 600 acres (2.4 km2).
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