The vitality of the banyan tree is extremely tenacious. It can grow into a forest by itself, grow with stones and strangle trees, all of which depend on the unique root system, vigorous vitality and peculiar survival competitiveness of the banyan tree. Banyan trees can grow many tiny adventitious roots. The adventitious roots of the aboveground part thicken and grow to form columnar roots or tabular roots, and the adventitious roots of the underground part extend in all directions to form new root groups, which provide support for the growth of trees or continuously supply nutrients and water.
The double-sided tree from Vietnam is Ficus tenuifolia (Ficus? microcarpa？ Linn.f), which shows the landscape of stone wall root net and reproduces the adventitious roots of slender banyan trees with supporting function and absorbing nutrients and water. Double-sided trees are the seeds of slender banyan trees that drifted into the cracks of stone walls with the wind a hundred years ago, and took root and sprouted in the cracks of stone walls. With their strong roots, they form developed root groups with different thickness and crisscross on the barren rock wall, which not only supports the slender banyan tree's stout body, but also absorbs the nutrients and water needed for the growth and development of the slender banyan tree, showing a unique landscape of double-sided trees with roots and nets in the rock wall.
Century-old Zhuang knotted tree
Life hugs, branches and leaves embrace; Just hug each other, and there is only contact with each other. Knot tree, also called folding tree, is two different kinds of trees, which grow together and depend on each other. Links are the product of natural grafting in nature and the result of interwoven growth of roots and branches. The bearing tree in front of us is Ficus gracilis (Ficus gracilis? Micro capps? Linn.f) married a banyan tree? Tincture? Subspecies. ? Gibsa? (Blume)？ Corner) formed a century-old tree. A hundred years ago, Ficus tenuifolia and Huaxie were adjacent to each other in Zhuang mountainous area of Guangxi. Due to the genetic basis of the same family (Moraceae), two different banyan trees interweave with each other, live together, embrace each other from root to trunk, undergo vicissitudes, flourish and heal each other, and finally form an inseparable and interdependent knotted tree, which explains the indomitable love story of "May the sky fly, may the ground grow, and one tree have two branches" in the most natural form.
Dai nationality's century-old cave tree
Dai centennial cave tree comes from Dai village in Xishuangbanna, China, and is a tropical rain forest plant Ficus gracilis (Ficus gracilis? Micro capps? Linn.f) after completing the stunt of strangling the survival of the rainforest, it shows the wonders of rainforest art. The trunk of a cave tree is hollow. At first, the seeds of slender banyan trees were successfully attached to the trunk of a big tree and germinated under suitable conditions. Its roots absorb nutrients and water in strangled plants, and it lives in peace with attached trees to store strength; Over the years, aerial roots gradually reach the ground, forming a powerful support system, gaining its own support and rich nutrition, and becoming more powerful; With the increase of adventitious roots and the fusion of branches, a powerful wooden tree net system is formed, which surrounds the big tree in the middle. Due to the limitation of living space and malnutrition, the middle tree gradually withered and died, and was replaced by an independent towering tree.
The tree has extraordinary growth advantages and excellent survival skills, and is regarded as a sacred tree by local Dai villagers. In rural tourism, business travelers discovered the unique growth skills and mysterious hundred-hole tree net of this tree, and a hole suddenly appeared in the sky, named Dong Tian Tree. Environmentalists believe that magical tree holes and tree tops are the reappearance of frogs at the bottom of a well in the process of people understanding nature and building a harmonious nature.
Miao Village Hundred Years Queqiao Tree
The century-old magpie bridge tree in Miao village, which spans the African rainforest and the American rainforest, is a thin-leaved banyan (banyan? Micro capps? Linn.f) Develop rainforest art works of strangulation and typhoon. Queqiao Tree comes from Miao Village, Baoting County, Hainan Island, China tropical rain forest. One hundred years ago, a huge typhoon blew down a big tree strangled by a slender banyan tree near a fast-flowing stream, and its top fell to the other side of the stream. After the tree withered and died, the adventitious roots of Ficus tenuifolia wood formed a magpie bridge closely surrounding the trunk, which had strong vitality. The air roots of Ficus tenuifolia planted in the soil at the root of the big tree grew new branches and leaves, and the air roots of Ficus tenuifolia on the other side of the stream grew on the ground, forming a lush shrub on the other side of the magpie bridge.
Antilles, the century-old king of drugs? Poison? (Pers。 )? Lesh.
/kloc-In the middle of the 0/9th century, the British colonial army invaded the Malay Archipelago, and the local aborigines rose up to defend their homeland. Their main weapon is homemade earth arrows, and almost no invaders are spared. When the British heard the sound of an arrow, they were shocked and thought that they had met the "arrow of death" under the spell. These arrows are indeed "arrows of death", and they soak the "tree of death"-milk that seals the throat with blood.
The bloodshot throat seal is an evergreen or semi-deciduous tree of Moraceae, and its milk is highly toxic. It is the most toxic tree species among woody plants and is known as the "king of forest poison". Its toxin enters the human body through the wound, which can make the poisoned person suffocate within 20- 120 minutes, hence the name "seeing blood to seal the throat"; Hunters often paint their juice on arrows to deal with incoming beasts and enemies, so they are also called "poison arrow wood".
The height of blood sealing throat can reach 40 meters, and the whole plant has milky white juice. It is a giant tree in the upper layer of monsoon forest, and often stands tall and straight above the main forest canopy. China, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and other provinces, as well as Southeast Asia and South Asia. Blood-soaked seal throat is the only 1 species of the genus "blood-soaked seal throat" distributed in China, and its population is rare, so it is listed as a national second-class key protected plant. The sap of trunks, branches, leaves and fruits with blood-sealed throats is highly toxic, which can paralyze the heart and coagulate blood and die after entering animals through wounds; Even eating the meat of the beast he shot will be poisoned. If its juice accidentally enters the eyes or the smoke burning its branches and leaves enters the eyes, it will also lead to blindness. But this toxin can also be used to treat hypertension, heart disease and mastitis. Its bark fiber can be used as blankets, mattresses and clothes, which is comfortable and durable. Some villages in Qiongbei, Hainan Province also planted it as a geomantic tree to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters before and after the village.
Rainforest giant-looking up at the sky tree? China? Wang? thank
1975, Yunnan forestry investigation team found a towering tree in Xishuangbanna forest, which can reach 80 meters high. In order to see this tree clearly, people had to "look up at the top of the tree", so they named it "Yangtian Tree". Wangtianshu is the tallest tree in China, a national first-class protected plant and one of the eight rare plants in China.
Wangtianshu is an evergreen tree of Dipterocarpaceae, with a height of 40-50(-80) meters and a DBH 1.5-3 meters. Its trunk is straight, and it only branches when it is more than 30 meters. This tree has roots. Wangtianshu is a rare tree species endemic to Yunnan, China. It is only distributed in narrow areas, such as mussel patches in Xishuangbanna. The requirements for the environment are extremely strict, fruits are scarce, the life span of seeds is short, and the natural germination growth rate is low. It takes about 2000 seeds to grow into a big tree, which is a rare species.
Dipterocarpaceae is the dominant family of tropical rain forest in Asia and one of the important symbols of tropical rain forest. The discovery of Cephalotaxus japonicus proves that there is a real tropical rain forest in China, which breaks the conclusion of some foreign scholars that China lacks Dipterocarpaceae plants and has no tropical rain forest, and is of great significance to the study of tropical flora in China. The trunk of the tree is tall and straight and grows rapidly. It is famous for its high single tree rate and excellent material-the trunk volume of Wangtianshu is 2-3 times that of other tree species; The timber accumulation per hectare of Wangtian Forest is more than twice that of other tropical forests. Wangtianshu is hard in material, strong in corrosion resistance, uniform in structure, flat and beautiful in texture, not easy to deform and good in processability. It is a high-quality timber tree species for manufacturing all kinds of high-grade furniture, shipbuilding, bridges and buildings.
The curtain of dreams? ——? Jin pingteng
Tropical rain forest is hot and humid, some plants grow adventitious roots on stems or branches, absorb water, nutrients and breathe air from humid air, and form famous aerial roots. What is amazing is the golden bottle vine (Cissus? The' oval' of Sicily)? Hundreds of reddish-brown slender aerial roots hang from scaffolding and are dragged from the roof to the ground in an elegant and unique way. The breeze is blowing slowly, and countless roots are swaying with the wind, elegant and interesting, full of poetry and painting. The long aerial roots of Jinping rattan are brown, but the newly grown aerial roots are bright red and delicate, like a curtain of water and a curtain of dreams.
Jingpingteng, from tropical America, is a perennial evergreen vine of Vitaceae, which is often used as a green corridor, green wall or shade shed for landscaping. Hundreds of aerial roots grow from the stems of Jingpingteng, and when they extend to the ground (soil), they will take root and sprout, flourish and live endlessly. Pale green or white flowers bloom from summer to autumn, and bear fruit in July and August, with strong vitality.