Recently, in the green village of Debeibang Township in the territory of Metuo County, Tibet, a super Bhutan pine was found. Its height reached a staggering 76.8 meters, setting a new record for the tallest tree in China. It is currently the tallest tree known Chinese mainland.
Chinese "tree king" Bhutan pine
Why does Bhutan pine grow so tall?
Bhutan pine, which grows mainly in the eastern Himalayas: Tibet, Yunnan including Bhutan and India are distributed. However, the tall Bhutan pine is basically distributed in the tropical mountain rainforest at an altitude of 1400 meters to 2500 meters.
The previous "Tree King" GaoLigong Bald Fir
The characteristics of trees are that the trunk and canopy are clearly distinguished: the main trunk has no extra branches and is generally upright and not curved, and the trunk position is often above 6 meters. Therefore, the canopy part is standing out from the crowd, and trees like Bhutan pine naturally have more sunlight and rain resources than other shrubs. Therefore, objectively speaking, trees have a great advantage in terms of survival resources. At the same time, their tree age is also quite strong, generally at least more than a thousand years. To this day, there are still many trees in the forests of the Brahmaputra Grand Canyon area of the mainland.
Primary forests of the Brahmaputra River basin
Wood emerges from ancient southwest
Daxing'anling high-quality timber resources
Far from it, yongle emperor built the Forbidden City as the best example. The Forbidden City has more than seventy large and small palaces, and there are more than nine thousand houses, and the demand for wood is very large, of which the highest requirement is the four beams and eight pillars of the palace: that is, to be durable, but also to be thick enough, so the pillars of the Forbidden City are selected from the golden silk nan wood, and we can still see these majestic columns in the Forbidden City.
The golden silk nan wood of the Taihe Gate of the Forbidden City
The logging process six hundred years ago is unforgettable, as can be seen from the records of the Ming Dynasty:
"It is a tree that lies in the first place, and it is difficult to move, and if it encounters obstacles, it will become wounded and damaged, and the people of Shu know: a thousand people enter the mountain, five hundred people go out of the mountain, and mourning can be known."
The tree king of the world
The size of the tree depends on its species and the environment in which it grows, it belongs to the sequoia class, with an average diameter of 7.6 meters and a height of 83.5 meters, which is two stories higher than our "tree king" Bhutan pine. The weight is a staggering five or sixty thousand pounds. Moreover, the age of the tree is also more than 3,500 years, and it should be known that the Shang Dynasty on the mainland was just established at that time. In addition, there are Sandwood trees in South America, and Kauri trees in New Zealand, which are large trees with an average height of more than 60 meters.
The "Tree King" of the world, General Sherman Tree
Without exception, the above-mentioned tree species are tall trunks and relatively small crowns. In terms of height, it is worthy of being the bearer of the tree class. However, to really cover the foliage and area, and from the momentum point of view, it is also a banyan tree in yunnan, the continent covers an area of nearly 9 acres, the age of the tree is more than a thousand years, its root system is developed, the canopy is huge, it can be described as shading the sky, and the tree is a forest. Known as: "Asian Banyan Tree King" Interested friends can learn about it, just in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan.
Indiscriminate logging of ancient trees has decreased
With the further development of industrialized civilization, the speed of human felling of this towering ancient tree is also getting faster and faster. From the initial knife splitting axe cutting, to hand saws, and then to the later electric chain saws, to today's professional mechanized saw blades. A tree weighing 100 tons has taken half a day to cut down from the beginning to half an hour now. While science and technology are advancing, they are also inflating human desires.
Chainsaws cut down trees
In order to satisfy the desire for money, human beings do not hesitate to cut down wildly. Brazil, for example, has the largest rainforest in the world, due to the relatively large ancient trees in the Amazon. This is precisely what makes Brazil the most deforested country in the world. In just over two decades from 2000 to now, nearly 55 million hectares of the country's forests have been deforested, which is heartbreaking.
Lungs of the Earth In the Amazon rainforest
So far, there are fewer and fewer towering trees on the earth. In Australia alone, some of the primary forests in North America are relatively concentrated. For example: Hyperion tree, North American yellow fir, North American spruce, General Sherman tree, etc. These trees can basically grow to more than 100 meters. Hopefully, many years from now, the witnesses of these ancient histories on Earth will still stand tall in the sky!
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