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Tropical Yucatan hall
It represents the wealth and colour variety of the Central American Rain Forest. There are 1,700 tropical plants, representing roughly 196 plant type species.
The great majority come directly from Costa Rica, from tropical tree nursery - climbing lianas and tropical trees. We know some of their fruits from normal life – for example papayas, bananas, cocoa or maracuya (Passion fruit).
pineapple, heliconia, orchid
- tropical trees – cacao, plumeria, coralbean, fig
tree, cherimoya, kapok tree and many others.
Flora is the dominant feature of the Yucatan Tropical Hall and demonstrates in our ZOO a lowland tropical rainforest of Central America. To imitate its plausibility was very difficult, but today, after 2.5 years of running the Tropical Hall Yucatan, we can say that we have somehow succeeded.
With the pavilion having to look like a natural forest environment, we tried to fulfil this very arduous project in collaboration with various professional foreign companies. Out of approximately 55 companies in Europe and overseas, it was only one company that was capable of delivering plants in more or less requested range, i.e. the Danish company Tropical Zoo Plants, Lars and Marianna Kjeldstrøm-Fisker.
Collaboration with this company, whose base and tropical plant nursery in Costa Rica we had visited, was very good and reliable. Plants to be delivered were prepared in the tropical plant nursery in the village of Aqua Zarcas and transported through Limón in two large-space containers to Rotterdam and there from to ZOO Zlín on trucks.
Import of plants took place in accordance to all principles and regulations set out by administrative authorities of Costa Rica and the State Phytosanitary Administration, Czech Republic.
We can recommend collaboration with the above-mentioned company to all zoological gardens for its proficiency and reliability.