The
Palace of the Malay Sultanate of Melaka was constructed together with botanical
garden known as the Forbidden Garden. This Forbidden Garden has the same
concept of the play area for royal princesses during the era of the Melaka
Sultanate. Although, it has never been clearly recorded that the garden
actually existed at the palace, by comparison with other state palaces of the
Malay world, it can be visualized that such a garden did exist in Melaka too.
As was related by a Chinese traveler, there were various types of trees that
grow grew luxuriantly. In the said garden various types of vegetation are
grown, including flowering plants, such as jasmine, frangipani, ‘kenanga’
(fragrant greenish yellow flower), as well as herbal plants such as lemon
grass, ‘Tongkat Ali’ and others.
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