Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome

The Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome (夢の島熱帯植物館), also sometimes called the Yumenoshima Tropical Plant Dome, is a botanical garden located at 3-2, Yumenoshima, Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. It is operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association and open daily except Mondays; an admission fee is charged.

The greenhouse was established in 1988 in Yumenoshima Koen (Dream Island Park), a reclaimed landfill and dumping ground in Tokyo Bay. Its three domes currently contain about 1,000 species of tropical and semitropical plants. The A Dome features rain forest with ferns and waterfall, B Dome represents a tropical village, and C Dome contains vegetation of the Ogasawara Islands (小笠原諸島). There is also a small carnivorous plant room.

The domes' plant collections include palms, orchids, aquatics, Pandanus, Hevea brasiliensis, Samanea saman, Barringtonia racemosa, Satakentia liukiuensis, Cyathea lepifera, C. mertensiana, C. spinulosa, and Dicksonia antarctica.

References

* [http://www.yumenoshima.jp/ Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome (Japanese)]
* [http://accessible.jp.org/tokyo/en/parks/Yumenoshima_Greenhouse.html Accessible Tokyo description]
* [http://japanvisitor.blogspot.com/2005/09/yume-no-shima-koen-dream-island-park.html Japan Visitor blog]
* [http://www.bgci.org/garden.php?id=3133 BGCI entry]

See also

* List of botanical gardens in Japan