The evergreen trees of the four seasons are not surprising in Ji'nan
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throughout the year, the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn are colourful, and only winter looks monotonous. In the waning season, evergreen trees, which are usually not noticed by us, can use their own green shadows to awaken the public's attention to them. Because the seasons are evergreen, they are not destined to be colourful, and are accustomed to obscurity, which does not mean that they have no stories on them. Today, reporters and everyone together to re recognize the evergreen trees around us. Reporter Zhang Shu
spruce: -30 centigrade low temperature, is the "true body" of the Christmas tree
Christmas has just passed, a lot of Christmas trees are still not removed when business promotion. Actually, you know, the real body of Christmas tree is spruce.
spruce has a strong cold resistance. It can endure low temperatures below -30 C. The average life span is about 120 years old. Because the trunk is tall and straight, and the joint is few, it can be used for making piano and viola. The most concentrated areas of spruce in provincial cities are mainly in the west of Olympic road and garden park.
a tree now known as the oldest in the world is spruce. It looks very young, only about 4 meters high, but after carbon -14 dating, it has been found to have a history of at least 9500 years, and it continues to grow. The European spruce was discovered by scientists in 2004 at the Fulufjallets National Park in Sweden.
black pine: the "friendship pine" of Daming Lake is a unique tree species in Taishan:
Pinus thunbergii. It is a unique tree species in the Taishan mountains. Speaking of the black pine, the city can see its figure. The famous black pine in the Ji'nan scenic area is a "friendship pine" located on the northwest coast of the Daming Lake scenic spot. On the side of the tree, "Liang Buting, governor of Shandong Province, and the head of the second Japanese University of Kinki youth overseas university in Japan, Wakayama County, Gu Zhiliang, August 30, 1984".
in addition, black pine has something to do with another celebrity Han Fuju in Ji'nan history. In the mountains of southern Ji'nan, Yuan Hongyu has a famous spring - chicory springs. In 2001, the place was built as a resort village. During the period of "Republic of China", it was bought by a large capitalist in Ji'nan, and was then taken as a private villa by Shandong warlord Hanfu. Now under the 2 building in the resort, it is the site of Han Fuju's villa. The black pine in front of the building is said to have been planted by Han Fuju and his secretary in Ji'nan when he was greening the barren hills in the same year. But if you want to see black pine, you'd better go to the national Forest Park in the southern suburb of Ji'nan. In the Republic of China, this is Han Fuju's private forest farm. There are many black pine trees in it.
Holly: do not think it is a "little dwarf", but it can grow to 30 meters
holly. It is believed to be one of the most familiar street trees, and it can be seen in almost all the virescence belts of the provincial capital.
although the common Holly in the main trunk is always short and short and trimmed, its actual height can actually grow to 20~30 meters, with a diameter of up to 30 centimeters, with trees and shrubs. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, Ligustrum lucidum is also called holly, but they are actually different families. The genus Ligustrum, usually only 6 meters high, is a shrub and small tree; holly is the only genus under the holly family, and is resistant to sulfur dioxide gas.
Sima, the chief of Zhejiang in Ming Dynasty, ordered the residents of Hangzhou to plant holly trees in front of the door. After several years, the streets were green and the people benefited. The ancients planted the holly trees straight and planted, known as the "winter wall", which is what modern people call "hedgerows". However, not all Holly plants are evergreen. Deciduous winter deciduous leaves; evergreen holly leaves are much leathery and often glossy. They can reflect too strong light, some of the back of the leaf also scatter cork points, or the cuticle has a thick cuticle to limit excessive transpiration.
Platycladus:
at present, there are 7 ancient trees in Ji'nan for thousands of years, and 2 Chinese sophora, respectively located in the Qianfo Hill scenic area and Zhangqiu City, and 3 of the Platycladus orientalis, all in the calendar.
in the four pagoda scenic area of the calendar, a tree with the age of 2000 is the first of the 7 thousand year old trees. It is the oldest old tree in Ji'nan. The Platycladus orientalis has a breast height of 197cm and a height of 15m, with an average crown of 14m. The name is "nine pine tops". Pushed back around 2000, China was at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and the four pagoda was built in the late Sui Dynasty near 1400.
, according to the staff of the four pagoda scenic area, the name of "nine pine" comes from a legend: this tall and tall cypress tree, I do not know where the year and the moon, from the distant coming a colorful Phoenix, falling and resting. At dawn, the monk in Shentong Temple struck the giant bell in the temple, and the loud bell struck the Phoenix. Phoenix took off too hard and broke the thick trunk. People looked at the broken trunk of the tree, but no one had expected that, only overnight, the tree had grown 9 thick branches from the broken place, and had a strong, luxuriant, luxuriant and lush, and people called it "nine pine" from then on.
Platycladus orientalis is a specialty product in China, except for Qinghai and Xinjiang, and is distributed throughout the country. According to the provincial census, in the ancient trees, the number of Platycladus orientalis has unparalleled advantage, accounting for more than 60% of the total, like 345 ancient trees in Qianfo Hill, 330 of which are cypress, and 365 of the Platycladus Platycladus below 1000 in the five peak mountain.