Camphor tree is valuable, which is a material for making buildings, furniture, essential oil and medicine. Producing essential oil needs Camphor trees which are over 40 years old; the trees need to be chopped into pieces before refining; and only the root can get the most essential oil because of the gravity.
Graceful Tree Figure
Surprising and joyful Camphor Tree Trail
As you step on the trail, you will be attracted by the Camphor trees with abundant leaves. You can feel cool under the trees. The plain trail is covered with asphalt. A lot of residents like to take a walk on this trail in mornings and evenings.
In the entrance of the trail, there is large map.
Nature Class
1. Have you heard that some plants kill other plants for surviving?
These killers murder others by two ways, "smothering" and "insulating." You can witness the incidents on the trail, the victims are all River Oaks. You can find out with careful observation.
Killer No.1 "Taiwan Banyan"
Killer No.2 "Large-Leaf Banyan"
2. Do you know the differences between shrub and arbor?
You can find out the answer on the Camphor Tree Trail, there are Swamp Oak and River Oak by the trail.
Swamp Oak is short with indistinct trunk.
River Oak is talk with obvious trunk.
The guide explains every detail in the guiding and gives instant feedback, which is the favorable way for children to learn outside the school.
A room mixed with old and new things, Administrative Demonstration Center
The Administrative Demonstration Center is reconstructed from Zhongshan room, the recreation room. The building is the first spot where visitors and workers in Green Camp encounter. The walls of Zhongshan room remained, there are still Chu-Kuang Garden(political education), bulletin board and numbers of dorms on the walls. Zhongshan room is made of bricks and doesn't have foundation. Concerning about the safety, the engineers kept the outer walls and dismantled the dorms and built a new room with steel beams on original place, formed it into a modern building.
The remained northern walls
The building is turned into steel beam made building, which is temporary grocery store for students in the Art Senior High School.
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