Introduction to the Palm House: The Palm House looks like an inverted ship and is one of the most famous greenhouses in the world. The Palm Room was built between 1844 and 1848 with the main purpose of displaying the tropical palm trees that Britain obtained during the colonial wars. It has become the most important surviving Victorian-era fiberglass structure in the world.
Today it is a Palm Plant Diversity Exhibition Center. The greenhouse creates climate conditions similar to those of tropical rainforests, displaying nearly 1,000 species of tropical rainforest plants from Africa, America and Australia, including climbing plants and epiphytes. As well as economic plants such as rubber, cotton, bananas, and coffee, since a quarter of the palm plants preserved in greenhouses are already on the verge of extinction in the wild, they play an extremely important role in botanical research. In the basement is the marine plant room, which presents important marine natural environments and their fish, corals and other marine life.