Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Glasshouse Range, Cambridge, England

The central part of the glasshouse range is the Tropical House, which is devoted to plants from the wet tropical regions of the world. The species of plants are set out to represent a rainforest, with a forest floor and high dense canopy. The Tropical House is divided into two sections representing the ‘American Tropics’ and ‘Old World Tropics’ . The latter section includes a jade vine Strongylodon macrobotrys.  

Other planting includes Hevea brasiliensis (rubber), Swietenia sp (mahogany,) Cabomba (kapok), climbing vanilla orchid, cycads (Cycadophyta), Ficus benjamina, shrubs including Cinocha (from which quinine is derived) and a grouping of tropical crops including tea, coffee, sugar cane, banana, rice, cotton and pawpaw.

In 2004 the Titan Arum, which had grown to 1.6 metres in the tropical house, flowered for the first time. The flower, which has the distinctive noxious smell of rotting flesh, flowered for two days, with the spectacular flowering process broadcast live via webcam to over half a million viewers worldwide.