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Ten most precious plants in the world
1, Metasequoia glyptostroboides-an ancient living fossil

Metasequoia glyptostroboides, known as the living fossil of the earth, was once considered extinct. 194 1 year, China botanists rediscovered this famous ancient and rare tree species in Hubei province. The investigation found that there are huge Metasequoia glyptostroboides in Chongqing, Hubei and Hunan.

2. Wang Lian-the magical king of lotus.

Wang Lian, a large floating-leaf herb, has huge and peculiar disc-shaped leaves floating on the water, which is very spectacular and is famous for its charming and changeable colors and rich fragrance. The leaves of Wang Lian are the largest among aquatic plants in the world, with a straight length of more than 3 meters. The leaves are smooth and the edges are rolled up, just like a jade plate floating on the water. Because its vein structure is different from that of ordinary plants, it is umbrella-shaped, so it has great buoyancy and can bear objects weighing 60 or 70 kilograms without sinking.

3. Wang Tianshu Wang Tianshu, also known as Qingtian Tree and Big Arbor, is 40-60m high and 60-150cm in DBH. Because you have to look up to see its crown, which can reach more than 80 meters. This kind of tree is a rare species endemic to Yunnan, China, and distributed within 20 square kilometers of Xishuangbanna.

4. prickly

Alsophila spinulosa is a fern that can grow into a big tree, also known as "tree fern" or snake wood. Known as the "king of pteridophytes", it is the only woody pteridophyte found. It is extremely precious and can be called a national treasure. Alsophila spinulosa is an extremely limited number of woody ferns left after the extinction of dinosaurs. It is listed as a first-class protected endangered plant by many countries and is known as a "living fossil".

5. holmium

Orchid is a short, stump-like plant, which is native to Namibia desert in Africa, which is a long, narrow and dry zone in southwest Namibia. Its trunk is short, short and thick, with an inverted cone shape and a diameter of1.2m.. The whole plant has only one pair of leaves and can last for one hundred years.

6.Davidia involucrata

Davidia involucrata is a unique national key protected wild plant in China and a world-famous ornamental plant. It can be as high as 25 meters, and its flowers are as strange as pigeons, so it is also called pigeon tree in China.

7, sea coconut

Sea coconut, distributed in Pralan Island and Curry Island of Seychelles, has a straight trunk, a height of 15-30m, a single crown and a neat shape. Its fruit is the largest nut in the world and is called "the heaviest coconut".

8.camellia chrysantha

Camellia chrysantha, belonging to Camellia, is golden yellow and dazzling, as if coated with a layer of wax, crystal clear. Because of its small number, it is called "the giant panda in the plant kingdom" and "the queen of tea family", and it is called the magical oriental tea abroad.

9.white fir

Cryptomeria fortunei is a rare tree species in China, distributed in Guangxi, Hunan, Chongqing, Guizhou and other places. When Metasequoia glyptostroboides was first discovered in China, it, like Metasequoia glyptostroboides, caused a great sensation in the world plant world.

10, ginkgo tree

Ginkgo biloba is a rare tree species left over from Mesozoic era, and it is a specialty of China, also known as ginkgo tree. Ginkgo trees grow slowly and have a long life. Under natural conditions, ginkgo trees need more than 20 years from planting to fruiting, and it takes 40 years to bear a large number of fruits. Therefore, some people call it Gongsun Tree, which means that people can eat it, and it is the birthday girl on the tree.