Wando Arboretum

Wando Arboretum is a public arboretum in Daemun-ri, Gunoe-myeon, Wando County, Jeonnam-Gwangju, South Korea. It is South Korea's only arboretum with an area of 2,050ha in the warm temperate zone and the country's largest natural habitat for warm temperate forest. Created with a view to providing opportunities to enjoy quality forest, culture, and recreation by presenting models for humans life and effects of forest, Wando Arboretum is located in the warm temperate zone that takes up 15% of the South Korean territory. Warm temperate zone refers to the unique evergreen broadleaf forest that is seen in those mildest regions of Korea at 35 degrees northern latitude or below with shorter daily temperature ranges and heavy rainfall such as south coast, Jeju Island, and Ulleungdo (hangul), which register annual minimum average temperature of 14 °C, minimum average January temperature of 0 °C, precipitation of 1,300-1,500mm. The arboretum is a treasure house that parades in about 2,000ha a natural evergreen broadleaf forest that is of great value for landscape, dietetics, and pharmacology such as camellia, Castanopsis cuspidata, Ilex integra, Machilus, Daphniphyllum macropodum, and red thorn.

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