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The Plantasia is a large public hothouse, located in the Parc Tawe retail park, Swansea, Wales that opened in 1990.
Plantasia exhibits a wide range of tropical plants, and insects, reptiles, and fish.
The glasshouse contains three climate zones: Tropical with a rainforest, Arid, and a seasonal Humid Butterfly House. The collection includes over 5,000 plants, many of which are extinct from their natural habitat. Plant types include bananas, coconuts, giant bamboo, Paw paw and collections of ferns and cacti.
Along with the plants, there is supporting life including ants, tarantulas, fish, green-winged macaws, parakeets, lories and lorikeets, chameleons, bearded dragons, Burmese python, and cotton-top tamarin. In the butterfly house, butterflies can be seen flying freely and viewed at various stages of development.
In 2011 Plantasia added the Rainforest Hut to its exhibits. The hut was built using the same basic principles used by forest tribes, and with forest materials such as bamboo, palm leaves, and clay, and shows how rainforest tribes live in harmony with nature.
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