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Ye Han plans to move the "strangulation" phenomenon unique to the tropical rainforest into the new exhibition hall to let everyone know about this wonder.
She turned on her phone and took a few photos of the trees that were in a state of strangulation.
Although it seems a bit cruel, this is the law of nature and the replacement of ecology and plants. Humans cannot interfere at will.
Strangling occurs in many Ficus species, such as the alpine fig, weeping fig, hairy weeping fig, blunt-leaved fig and inclined-leaved fig, to name a few.
Ye Han thought of the mountain banyan trees on Banyan Island.
It is also a member of the strangler fig family.
But she wasn't worried.
This phenomenon can only occur in places like tropical rainforests, where there are dense trees, many species, and birds that spread seeds everywhere.
Only here can such fierce competition for survival take place.
This is a unique wonder of nature.
Walking further, Ye Han suddenly felt a strong ray of sunlight falling on his head, which made him feel quite uncomfortable in the sparse light and shadow in the jungle.
She raised her head and gently blocked the sunlight with her arms. Sure enough, there was a gap of several dozen square meters at the top of the forest area, which was more than 20 meters high, just like a window in a not very bright room.
Director Xu also looked up and said, "This is a forest window in the rainforest, representing the replacement of this small area.
Once a large tree dies of old age or falls due to lightning or other factors, a forest window will appear above. The sunlight pours down from here, and then the plants in this area grow like crazy, trying to compete for this sunlight. "
"It's like a whale fall in the ocean. When a whale falls, everything comes to life. The decay and decomposition of the big trees will provide a lot of nutrients to this area, and this forest window will provide them with a lot of sunlight and growth space."
Ye Han looked at the plants under the forest window. They were all growing in the direction of the sunlight, and the middle and lower layers had already begun to compete.
The leaves of the herb plants stretched out desperately, preventing other plants from growing and monopolizing the sunlight; the vines entwined and climbed, trying to break through the leaves above to reach higher places; the trees, although not fully grown, were trying hard to grow branches and keep growing taller...
All of this is for the hard-earned forest window at the top.
Director Xu motioned Ye Han to come over: "Look here. This Monstera was already two meters tall, but it was tightly entangled by wooden vines. The branches of the vines climbed along it to the big tree next to it, trying to get closer.
Unfortunately, it is not the final winner, because there are several wild banana trees over 3 meters tall here. "
Banana is a common plant in tropical rainforests. It grows fast, has strong stem division ability and large leaves.
Blocked plants can only grow in its shadow or try to break through elsewhere.
Director Xu: “Of course, the ecology in the rainforest is ever-changing, and the final winner is uncertain.
But what is certain is that after decades or even hundreds of years, this forest window will be covered by other trees and return to its original appearance.”
Ye Han felt that he had learned a lot.
The tropical rainforest has its own set of rules. It seems as if the fast-forward button has been pressed here, and the replacement and rebirth of plants are happening every day.
Survival of the fittest.
The fierce competition among plants is a natural renewal and the basis for building the rainforest ecosystem.
When a big tree falls, it nourishes hundreds of plants, and then new big trees grow, forming a cycle.
Together they form a complex and stable rainforest ecosystem.
Walking in the rainforest, it is not quiet around, and the sound of insects is very loud.
There are a large number of unknown insects living in the forest, various tree frogs and toads hiding in the trees and low bushes, and some snakes, small lizards, etc., half of which are poisonous.
Fortunately, it is daytime now and these nocturnal animals rarely appear.
According to Director Xu, in the west area of the botanical garden, a rainforest night walk will be organized when there are many people, and tourists can see scenery that they cannot see at other times at night.
It is also a special experience here.
Because that area has been developed, it is relatively safe, but the same cannot be said for the original rainforest in the east area, which may be dangerous at any time.
On the way, Ye Han found a palm-sized tarantula on the broad leaves of a palm plant.
It is large and furry, with light pink markings and feet.
It is a carnivorous spider with toxins in its body.
As the name suggests, it can prey on small birds.
Normally, birds prey on spiders and other insects, but in the case of tarantulas, the opposite is true.
"Be careful not to disturb it."
Although Director Xu said this, he couldn't help but get closer and took several photos: "I didn't expect to find a wild tarantula in Yulin today. It is an endangered animal and is rarely seen."
Tarantulas have extremely high requirements for the environment. The fact that they can be found here shows that this tropical rainforest is well protected.
Director Xu felt that he was lucky today.
After all, he has been here for many years and has rarely seen wild tarantulas.
Not only that, they also found a bamboo green snake coiled on the tree.
It is about forty to fifty centimeters long, emerald green all over, with orange-red eyes. It is poisonous, but its color is very beautiful.
Its body was coiled in two circles on the branches, and its head was hanging from the branches. The coiled part looked like a emerald green jade bracelet.
The two did not approach because this kind of snake is quite aggressive, so they just observed from a distance.
Director Xu: "We are really lucky today. Pieris fasciatus usually only appears at night or on rainy days, and is rarely seen during the day."
Ye Han was also amazed.
When I took a photo of this green pit viper from a distance with my mobile phone, I felt excited and a little scared. No wonder some explorers come to the rainforest to explore.
It's really exciting.
Walking further, Ye Han saw a tall tree - Strychnos nux vomica.
It is also a tropical plant that she plans to introduce.
Strychnos nux vomica, also known as the arrow poison tree, is a national third-level protected plant.
The milky white juice that flows out is highly toxic. Once it comes into contact with the wounds of humans and animals, it can cause cardiac paralysis and blood coagulation in the poisoned person, leading to instant death. It is extremely toxic.
In ancient times, people often smeared the juice on arrows for hunting, and now it has certain medicinal value.
The strychnos nux vomica in front of him was much taller than Ye Han had imagined. It was more than 30 meters tall, with a chest diameter of nearly 1 meter. It was a towering tree.
What surprised Ye Han the most was the root system at the bottom of the tree.
Its huge root system is exposed, not vine-like fibrous roots or lateral roots, but huge flat triangular flanks.
Each wing was two meters high and extended to a width of five or six meters, like a gray wall standing in front of her, quite spectacular.
Ye Han needed to look up to see its roots, which was simply unimaginable in other environments.
The roots of ordinary plants are deeply rooted in the soil, and even if they are exposed, only a small part of them is exposed; however, here, the exposed roots are extremely wide, radiating from the center and diverging outward to form several plate-like structures, which serve as strong support for the plants.
This is a phenomenon unique to tropical rainforests - 'buttress roots'.
Director Xu and Ye Han stood in front of the tree together: "This plate-like adventitious root develops from the lateral roots and has two main functions.
First, it provides additional support to prevent these 30-40 meter tall trees with huge crowns from becoming unstable due to being "top-heavy", and better resist the attacks of strong winds and rainstorms in the rainforest.
Second, the water in the rainforest is often saturated, and their roots cannot penetrate deep into the soil due to respiratory needs, so they can only continue to develop on the ground. "
Ye Han looked at the "board wall" in front of him, walked forward and touched it, it was very hard, "Director, are all the board roots this big?"
Director Xu: “It depends on the situation, but it’s usually not small.
The trees that have buttress roots are all large trees. The largest one I have seen is a four-digit tree, more than 40 meters high, with 13 buttress roots. The longest one extending from the ground is 10 meters long, which is amazing. "
Ten meters.
Ye Han was amazed from the bottom of his heart.
Most trees are only about ten meters tall, but the roots of the big trees in the rainforest can extend to such an extent, which is really terrifying.
The plank-like roots make them more stable, allowing them to obtain more water and nutrients to supply themselves, allowing them to continue to grow upward and reach amazing heights.
Ye Han also saw Alsophila spinulosa, a national second-level wild protected plant.
It belongs to the fern family, but can grow as tall as a tree, reaching a height of more than 6 meters.
Director Xu: "Alternaria spinulosa is also a living fossil. It existed 230 million years ago and is the only woody fern plant alive today."
Ye Han looked up at its outstretched leaves and couldn't help but think of the golden dog fern.
They all have feather-like arrangements, with leaves arranged in two rows, small and dense, and with long petioles.
Director Xu: "There is another fern that looks very similar to it, called Alsophila spinulosa, but they are not in the same genus."
Alsophila spinulosa is also a national second-level wild protected plant and a terrestrial fern.
It grows taller, up to 20 meters high. The higher the air humidity, the more vigorous its growth. It is a giant among ferns.
After walking in the rainforest for more than two hours, Ye Han saw various tropical plants, wild orchids, as well as the "strangulation" and "buttress root" phenomena unique to the rainforest, and the wonder of the "sky garden".
The hanging garden is essentially a parasitic phenomenon of other plants growing on large trees.
More than ten meters high, mosses and lichens spread along the trees, covering the trunks with a thick layer of green; vines entwine around them, and ferns such as bird's nest ferns and staghorn ferns grow on the branches, like green flowers blooming on the branches.
The leaf-like scales of air plants are draped over branches, swaying in the wind; there are also various epiphytic orchids, such as Hoya and Dendrobium, which grow on large trees and use pseudobulbs to absorb moisture from the air.
When the flowers bloom, they will form a colorful sky garden.
Ye Han experienced these unique landscapes along the way, which not only broadened his horizons but also provided a learning experience, and he benefited a lot from it.
This experience provided her with a lot of material for creating a new exhibition greenhouse.
After returning, she will try her best to simulate the original ecological environment so that these unique phenomena in the rainforest can be presented in the exhibition hall.
However, the scenery in the rainforest is amazing, but the humid and hot feeling is very uncomfortable and stuffy, as if water can be wrung out of clothes.
The rainforest is a paradise for plants, but it is not suitable for humans to enter.
Ye Han raised his hand and shook his hat, the buzzing sound of mosquitoes almost never stopped.
She was actually a little tired, but she didn't dare sit down on the fallen tree trunk to rest. It was covered with ants and moss, and there were bright fungi growing underneath. It didn't look safe.
Director Xu: "There is a river ahead. Let's sit on the rocks on the shore to rest. We will soon reach the Parashorea chinensis reserve."
Ye Han's breathing was a little rapid: "Okay, Director."
After briefly escaping from the dense jungle, the view suddenly became open, and sunlight poured down from above, illuminating the entire area.
The stream in front of me flows from a great height and is extremely clear. I can see floating water plants and algae, small fish, and tiny plankton in it.
Ye Han took off his hat and sat on the shore to rest. It took him a while to recover.
Some butterflies stopped by a small pond in the depression to drink water, and then dived into the nearby bushes. The butterflies fluttered gracefully, creating a beautiful scene.
The butterflies of Y Province are also unique, with a large number and variety. There are 1,300 species, accounting for nearly 80% of the butterflies in my country.
Ye Han thought that she could bring some butterfly specimens back, which would be helpful for the construction of the specimen room.
Director Xu pointed ahead and said to her, "Do you see the highest forest? That's the Wangtianshu Scenic Area."
Ye Han saw it.
Because the Parashorea chinensis grows so tall, it is very conspicuous even in a forest area with towering trees. It is much taller than the surrounding trees and can be seen at a glance.
It's finally here.
After resting on the shore for twenty minutes, the two continued their journey.
When he arrived under the Parashorea chinensis, Ye Han felt that he had still underestimated its height.
Almost every Parashorea chinensis tree in this forest area is fifty or sixty meters high, equivalent to the height of a twenty-story building, towering into the clouds and reaching the sky.
Even the sunlight shines through the top and outside because other trees cannot reach the same height as it, so there are these gaps.
Moreover, the Parashorea chinensis is more than 50 meters tall, but its average breast diameter is only about 1.5 meters. In comparison, the trunk appears somewhat slender, as if a giraffe's neck was stretched ten times, making it stand taller and more upright, like a towering tree.
Ye Han stood below and felt very small.
It feels like being an ant under a reed marsh. Even if you look up hard, you can hardly see its full picture.
It’s really too high.
It would be more obvious if you use a drone to take aerial photos.
In the forest canopy with an average height of 30 meters, a group of towering trees suddenly emerged, with straight trunks reaching into the sky, standing proudly above all other trees.
It is worthy of being the tallest tree in our country, it is really shocking.
Ye Han: "Director, are all the parashorea chinensis trees here this tall?"
Director Xu nodded: "Most of the heights in this area are between 50 and 60 meters, and the highest record in the country is 88 meters."
Even Ye Han was shocked by the height.
She now fully understands why it is called an iconic species of the rainforest, as it is so rare to find at this height.
Such tall giant trees cannot grow anywhere else except in the rainforest, a pristine environment with plenty of sunshine and rainfall.
Director Xu: “Before the 1970s, everyone believed that there were no rainforests in my country.
It was not until the discovery of the Parashorea chinensis, a species of dipterocarp that is a symbol of the rainforests of Southeast Asia, that it was finally proven that there are tropical rainforests in China, and in more than one place.”
This discovery is of epoch-making significance.
Nowadays, there are large tracts of tropical rainforests not only in Province Y, but also in Province H.
The tropical rainforest is the lungs of the earth, the highest embodiment of biodiversity, and a paradise for plants.
As an iconic species, the significance of the discovery of the Parashorea chinensis is self-evident. It has made my country one of the countries with the most complete forest types in the world.
Director Xu: "The fruits of the Dipterocarpaceae family are very special. The fruit season has just passed, so we should still be able to pick them up."
Ye Han searched on the ground and found several whole fruits.
It's really special.
Its fruit has "wings", like a bamboo dragonfly or a small shuttlecock, with a total of 5 wings and seeds inside.
When the fruit falls, it will spin in the air and fall into rivers, the ground, bushes and any other places it can fall, trying to take root, sprout and reproduce.
Ye Han picked up one and threw it upwards. Sure enough, the fruit wings began to rotate continuously and slowly fall from the air. It was quite interesting.
She likes this seed very much.
Not only the Parashorea chinensis, but also plants of the Dipterocarpaceae family such as the green plum and the narrow-leaved Pleurotus eryngii grow similar fruits in order to survive better.
Ye Han decided to introduce this unique national first-class protected plant.
However, considering the height of the Parashorea chinensis, the exhibition greenhouse seems to be unable to accommodate it.
She originally set the pavilion's floor height at 32 meters, which was already quite impressive. Even large trees rarely grow so tall, but it was indeed not considered high compared to the Parashorea chinensis.
This is the case for Huajianji, which means that other botanical gardens will also find it difficult to cultivate this plant.
Ye Han: "Director, are there any other botanical gardens that have introduced Parashorea chinensis?"
Director Xu: "Currently there are only K City Botanical Garden and South China Botanical Garden."
"We are working hard to cultivate it artificially, but the growth environment of the Parashorea chinensis determines that it is impossible to plant it widely in China."
It is not like the first-class protected plants such as Ginkgo and Metasequoia, which can be found everywhere.
This is actually a difficult problem for protection work.
This means that if the protected area changes, diversity is likely to be lost.
Ye Han plans to introduce 10 Parashorea chinensis trees about 20 meters tall and place their seeds into the exhibition greenhouse for cultivation. If they grow to a height that exceeds the floor height, he will then consider transplanting them back to the rainforest or directly establishing a forest area in Huajianji.
The system's task rewards include [Upgrade of the temperature control system of the entire garden], which can be used to cultivate tropical plants.
In addition to simulating the original ecological environment, it also contributes to the protection of endangered plants.
The application to introduce national protected plants has been approved, and there is no problem here in X City Botanical Garden.
Director Xu: "It is a good thing to let more people know about the iconic plant of the tropical rainforest, the Parashorea chinensis."
It can also cultivate the public's awareness of protection.
After seeing the unique phenomena and species of the tropical rainforest, the two prepared to go back.
Ye Han looked at the time and it was almost 1pm.
They will return via another developed road and leave the tropical rainforest scenic area around 3 o'clock.
very tired.
They will visit the orchid room tomorrow, which should give her a new experience.
As for this rain forest, she will probably come again to collect some tropical plant seeds, tubers or cuttings.
This trip to Province Y must have been very rewarding.
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