Brief content: We continued walking deeper into the forest, and suddenly we found a leaf moving. When we looked closely, we found that it was a lizard.

Its deep black back is inlaid with a little yellow-green and withered yellow, which is very similar to the color of the surrounding petioles and dead leaves. This is called protective color in biology.

The Rainforest Dancer started from Pu'er City and drove all the way to Xishuangbanna. The car drove on the "most beautiful highway in China" (Simao to Xiaomengyang Highway). This 97.7-kilometer highway passes through China's only tropical rainforest country.

Park (Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve).

What is particularly important is that this national park nature reserve is the habitat of the Asian elephant, a national first-level protected animal. In order to reduce the corridor effect of highways and damage to the living environment of wild elephants, multiple passages have been set up under the elevated highways.

, allowing the wild elephants in the reserve area to travel freely. When the car reaches the core area of ??the reserve, we can see eye-catching warning signs prohibiting whistle blowing from a distance.

Because of this, this highway is also called the "Ecotourism Highway".

It was noon, the sun was shining brightly, and white clouds were floating in the blue sky.

In the early morning in Xishuangbanna, you can always see thick fog surrounding the area. At first, I thought it was going to rain, but as soon as the sun came out at noon, the fog dispersed without a trace, and it became clear and sunny.

Our off-road vehicle continued to speed on the highway, with tall tropical trees on both sides passing by the vehicle. The oncoming wind was fresh and pure, and sometimes banana fields, rubber forests or tea gardens flashed past our eyes.

It is the banana ripening season, and the branches should be covered with attractive golden bananas, but banana farmers have put a layer of blue nylon on them. It is said that this is to prevent the ripe bananas from being attacked by diseases and insect pests.

intrusion.

Rows of rubber trees are neatly arranged not far away. For those rubber trees that have reached the age of tapping (usually 6 to 8 years old), rubber farmers place a bowl under the rubber tree, and the rubber from the rubber tree drips along the ring-shaped knife marks.

into the bowl.

The tea garden rises gradually along the hillside, which is very layered. In order to sprout more new tea next spring, the tea farmers use scissors to cut the tea trees flat.

The humid climate here, coupled with the acidic brown-red soil, and unique geographical conditions make this place one of the four major Pu'er tea production areas.

At the entrance of Xishuangbanna National Park, we abandoned the car and walked into the tropical rainforest.

This is a trip similar to the scene in the "Avatar" movie. Tall palm trees can be seen everywhere, and the broad leaves of the palm trees sway and dance in the wind.

Trees in tropical rain forests are generally more than 20 meters high, and the red iron tree is one of them.

It belongs to the butterfly family and is a valuable timber tree species with fine texture and hard wood that can be used for sculpture and construction.

Some trees also have plate roots, which are a form of pillar roots of tropical rainforest plants.

One to several flat triangular plate-shaped roots are formed between the trunk and the lateral roots along the ground, some of which can be as high as 3 to 4 meters.

Board roots are a special adaptation phenomenon of tall trees in tropical rainforests. Because this strong and powerful root system can well avoid the top-heavy problem caused by the wide crown, it can effectively strengthen and support the above-ground parts and can resist

The attack of heavy storm.

While hiking in the tropical rain forest, we saw the fruit of konjac? The small red berries are really beautiful.

Konjac was called Shaoshen in ancient China, and Japan still uses this name. It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Araceae family.

The underground tuber is oblate spherical, relatively large, about 1 meter tall, with thick petioles that are light green with dark purple spots. The palm-shaped compound leaves grow in sparse forests and have the functions of dispersing toxins, nourishing the skin, unblocking the veins, lowering blood pressure, losing weight,

Appetizer and other functions.

In the hills, ravines or ravine shrubs, we also saw a dancing plant called dancing grass.

Although it is called "dancing grass", it is actually not a grass, but a small shrub.

Dancing grass is very sensitive to sunlight. Under the sunlight, the two lateral leaves next to the big leaf will slowly gather upwards, and then droop rapidly, spinning endlessly like the hands of a clock.

The movements of different leaflets on the same plant may be fast or slow, but very rhythmic. They rise and fall one after another, which is amazing.

Whenever night falls, the dancing grass enters a "sleep" state, and with the emergence of the morning sun, it begins to dance again.

As a living plant, Dancing Grass is an interesting ornamental plant; at the same time, it is also a herbal medicine that has the effects of relaxing muscles, activating collaterals, and removing stasis.

In addition to these strange plants, we also encountered many cute little animals along the way.

The green tree frog was taking a nap on the big leaf of the calla lily, and was too lazy to pay attention to our sudden disturbance.

This is a typical arboreal frog of the tree frog family, the family Hyla.

It has a small and slender body, long legs, and suction cups at the ends of its toes, making it particularly suitable for climbing trees.

We continued walking deeper into the forest, and suddenly we noticed a leaf moving. After a closer look, we realized it was a lizard.

Its deep black back is inlaid with a little yellow-green and dead yellow, which is very similar to the color of the surrounding petioles and dead leaves. This is called protective color in biology.

Such a protective color similar to the environment is difficult for even alert humans to detect, let alone ordinary natural enemies.

The sun shines down through the gaps in the tree crown, forming beams of light beams with different thicknesses, illuminating the mist-like shade of the trees.