This fern grows in the shade of the forest or by the stream, prefers a humid and cool, cloud-surrounded environment, and is generally suitable for growth at an altitude of 500-800 meters.
It is a proud tree, ancient and tall.
The stem of this fern is 6 m or more tall, 10–20 cm in diameter, with remnants of petioles on the upper part and intertwined adventitious roots at the bottom.
This fern is the only woody fern, extremely precious, called a national treasure, listed as a first-class protected endangered plant by many countries, known as "living fossils".
This fern has no flowers, of course, it does not bear fruit, there is no seed, it relies on these spores to reproduce.
This fern ranks first among the 8 protected plants in China's national class. New Zealand is one of the ferns, and it is also New Zealand's national tree, which is protected by people.
A "living fossil" that resembles a tree instead of a tree.
This fern resembles a "living fossil" of a tree, called alder.
Also known as Taiwan Alder, Quercus tree, Tree fern, Fern tree, water alder tree, stingray, daguanzhong, keel wind, horse chestnut tree, snake wood, is a fern of the family Quercus, Quercus quercus is a fern of the genus Quercus, and is praised as the "King of Ferns".
Alder has practical value: It is a proud alder tree, ancient and tall, and it has research value. Due to the antiquity and degeneracy of the plants of the Family Cyprinidae, it coexists with dinosaur fossils, and attaches importance to the paleo-ecological environment during the life period of dinosaurs.
It resembles a tree-like "living fossil" alder, which has ornamental value. The tree has a unique and beautiful shape, the canopy is like a giant umbrella, the pattern is beautiful, although it has gone through vicissitudes but the rest of its life, it still has a beautiful stem and leaves, tall and tall, and has a high horticultural ornamental value.
Time is too fast, and the white colt is passing through the gap.
Quercus alder has medicinal value, the trunk of the alder tree is hard, according to relevant information,
Hakka Ancient Yi, the source of the Evergreen River, the hometown of dinosaurs, surrounded by mountains and rivers, dense forests, quiet environment, mountains and forests cascading... Guangdong Heyuan has plants such as this "living fossil" of tree-like trees.
The source of the river is the Jiulian Mountain Range
Guangdong Heyuan City and other places have a lot of alder trees and other plants, which makes people feast their eyes.
Heyuan Xinfengjiang Park
Legend has it that in the last year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang was defeated in the anti-Yuan army and retreated into Guangdong.
One day through the Changtan Jigong Mountain, it was dark in the mountains to spend the night. In the morning, Wen Tianxiang dreamed that the young lord of the Southern Song Dynasty was tragically chased and killed by the Yuan soldiers, and the rooster appeared, and when he woke up, he cried bitterly, and the tears spilled out, turned into spores, and seeped into the soil.
Writer's Wen Tianxiang infographic
The line counted miles to Mei She, Wen Tianxiang missed the young lord's heart, bit his finger, chewed blood and sprayed dry bamboo leaves as a gua, where the young lord was. The leaves that grow here have vermilion dots, which is called "Xiangguo Gua Bamboo". And where Wen Cheng xiang wept, he later gave birth to the eucalyptus.
Wen Tianxiang was defeated against the Yuan army and retreated into Guangdong
At that time, people did not know that it was a fern, because its branches and leaves resembled ferns, so some literati named it "Gao Fern Poetry Monument".
The patriotic poet Qiu Fengjia at the end of the Qing Dynasty
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the patriotic poet Qiu Fengjia once wrote a poem and aria. The poem says: "The townships and towns have built a shrine, and they still see the remnants of the homeland thinking." If you want to find the bamboo from Mei She, set up a poetry monument in the red place of the mountain."
This beautiful legend expresses people's reverence for the national hero Wen Tianxiang.