Mr Monkey visits China Landscape at the British Museum, 16th May

"It's a useful palm, that one"

Mr Monkey looking at the entrance to China Landscape at the British Museum Mr Monkey looking at a chusan palm

Mr Monkey saw that the landscape was a long rectangle with a path trailing through the middle. He found out that the landscape was named Jinghua Yuan (Flourishing China Park), which was painted onto a large rock at the entrance. The first plant Mr Monkey looked at was a Chusan Palm (trachycarpus fortunei); different bits of this palm are used to make rope, brooms, cloth, matting, hats and medicine.

You can read about the landscape at the British Museum website and at the Kew Garden website.

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