The ten most precious plants in the world

1. Metasequoia - an ancient living fossil

Metasequoia, known as the living fossil on earth, was once thought to be extinct. In 1941, Chinese botanists rediscovered this ancient and rare tree species in Hubei Province. The investigation found that huge ancient metasequoia trees were found in Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan and other places.

2. Wanglian - the magical king of lotuses

Wanglian is a large-scale floating-leaf herb with giant and peculiar disk-like leaves that float on the water and are very spectacular. It is famous for its colorful flowers and rich fragrance. King lotus has the largest leaves among aquatic plants in the world, which can reach more than 3 meters in length. The leaves are smooth and the edges are rolled up, just like a large emerald green jade plate floating on the water. Because of its veins, it is similar to the veins of ordinary plants. The structure is different, it is rib-shaped, like an umbrella stand, so it has great buoyancy and can withstand objects weighing up to sixty or seventy kilograms without sinking.

3. Wangtianshu Wangtianshu, also known as the Skytree, is a large tree with a height of 40-60 meters and a diameter at breast height of 60-150 centimeters. If you want to see its crown, you must look up, which can reach up to more than 80 meters. m. This tree is a rare species that only grows in Yunnan, China. It is spread over an area of ??20 square kilometers in Xishuangbanna.

4. Cynophylla

Cynophylla is a fern that can grow into a big tree. It is also called "tree fern" and also known as snake tree. It is praised as "the king of ferns". , is the only woody fern found, it is extremely precious and can be called a national treasure. The tree fern is a very limited number of woody ferns left after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It is listed as an endangered plant under first-level protection by many countries and is known as a "living fossil".

5. Welwitschia

Welwitschia, a dwarf stump-like plant, is native to the Namibian Desert in Africa, a narrow, dry zone in southwestern Namibia. It is very short and stout, in the shape of an inverted cone, with a diameter of up to 1.2 meters. The whole plant has only one pair of leaves, which can last for hundreds of years.

6. Davidia involucrata

Davidia involucrata is a national first-level protected wild plant. It is a single genus unique to China and is also a famous ornamental plant in the world. It can reach a height of 25 meters, and its flowers are shaped like white doves, so it is also called the Chinese pigeon tree.

7. Coconut of the sea

Coconut of the sea is distributed on Praslin Island and Kuri Island in the Seychelles. The trunk is straight, 15-30 meters high, and the single crown is neat. Its fruit is the largest nut in the world and is known as the "heaviest coconut".

8. Golden camellia

Golden camellia belongs to the family Theaceae and Camellia genus. Its flowers are golden yellow and dazzling, as if coated with a layer of wax, crystal clear and oily, like It feels translucent. Because of its extremely small number, it is known as the "Giant Panda of the Plant World" and the "Queen of the Tea Tribe". It is also called the magical Oriental Magic Tea abroad.

9. Silver fir

Silver fir is a rare tree species endemic to China and is distributed in Guangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou and other places. When silver fir was first discovered in China, like metasequoia, it caused a huge sensation in the world's botanical community.

10. Ginkgo tree

Ginkgo, a rare tree species relict of the Mesozoic era, is a specialty of China and is also known as the ginkgo tree. The ginkgo tree grows slowly and has an extremely long lifespan. Under natural conditions, it takes more than twenty years from planting to the time it bears ginkgo fruits, and it takes forty years before it can bear a large number of ginkgo fruits. Therefore, some people call it the Gongsun tree. If there are male seeds, the grandchildren will eat them. The meaning is the longevity star in the tree.