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The Eden Project is a project conceived by Tim Smit to construct and maintain a large-scale environmental complex on a property located about 8km from St Austell, Cornwall, in South West England. Although relatively new, the project has quickly become one of the most popular visitor attractions in the United Kingdom. The complex includes two giant, transparent domes, each emulating a natural biome, that house plant species from around the world. The first emulates a tropical environment, the other a warm temperate, Mediterranean-type environment. The project took 2 1/2 years to construct. The project is ongoing, and part of its purpose is to see how the different biomes develop over time.

The project is constructed in a disused china clay quarry. Visitors approach along roads to car parks at the top of the quarry and walk or bus to the entrance area, half-way down a gently sloping side. The entrance area includes the usual restaurant and gift shop, implemented in a more interesting way than is common. The entrance area also has some informational exhibits, some of which are animated.

Once into the attraction, there is a meandering path with views of the two biomes and of interesting planted landscapes (including, for example, colourful patterned areas which upon inspection prove to be vegetable gardens) and sculptures, such as that of a giant bee.

At the bottom are the two Biomes. The larger is for tropical plants, such as fruiting bananaFor other meanings, see banana (disambiguation) A banana is a tree-like plant (though strictly a herb) of the genus Musa in the family Musaceae, closely related to plantain. The term banana is also applied to the elongated fruit (technically a false berry trees, coffee, rubber and giant bambooMany, see text Bamboos are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants in the grass family Poaceae subfamily Bambusoideae . Some of its members are giants, forming by far the largest members of the grass family. Bamboos are found in diverse climates, from and is kept at a tropical temperature. The smaller, which will eventually have its content split into a third Biome yet to be built, houses temperateIn geography, temperate latitudes of the globe lie between the tropics and the polar circles. The north temperate zone extends from the Tropic of Cancer at about 23. 5 degrees north latitude to the Arctic Circle at about 66. 5 degrees north latitude. and arid plants and various pieces of sculpture.

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