Archive record · Production catalogue · 2020s · Zhuhai, China, for the Red Sea Project, Saudi Arabia
On Qiao Island in Zhuhai, at a site known as the Australian Botanical Garden, the team's China production nursery assembled a catalogue with a very specific customer in mind: a "Product Catalogue of Tree Species from Asian and Southern African Regions, Suggested for the Red Sea Project, Saudi Arabia". This record rebuilds it.
A catalogue built for one coastline
This is not a general stock list; it is a curated answer to a giga-project's climate. Every species was selected as plausible for Red Sea coastal conditions: heat-proof, largely salt-capable, and available from the nursery's Asian and African supply base at project grades.
Inside the species range
- African structure trees: Acacia galpinii, A. sieberiana and the fever tree A. xanthophloea, with Celtis africana, Combretum erythrophyllum and African mahogany (Khaya senegalensis): a palette rarely offered outside Africa itself.
- Flowering theatre: Delonix regia, the full Cassia set (fistula, nodosa, siamea), Bauhinia varieties, Lagerstroemia species, Bombax ceiba and coral trees.
- The Ficus backbone: a dozen fig species from benghalensis to microcarpa, the reliable green mass of tropical resort planting.
- Coastal and productive specialists: sea grape (Coccoloba uvifera), Conocarpus erectus, beach hibiscus, sausage tree (Kigelia africana), plus a full citrus and orchard range from pomelo to mango for productive resort landscapes.
Why this record matters
This catalogue is the supply chain the archive keeps describing, caught in the act: a company-run production nursery in China, growing Asian and African species, curating them against a Saudi coastal brief, and feeding a delivery programme that has run continuously since 2022. The Shura Island species list elsewhere in this archive shows what was specified; this document shows where much of it could be grown. Together they are the two halves of giga-project supply: demand decoded and production answered.
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