Recently, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Anning City has protected the wild distribution community of rare and endangered plant Xiangguo Tree located in the mountain forest of Beacon Mountain Village in Wenquan Street, and further protected the biodiversity of Anning.
Fragrant fruit tree is a national second-level key protected plant, unique to China, originated from the Mesozoic Cretaceous Period about 100 million years ago, known as "living fossils", known as "the most beautiful and moving tree in China's forests", with high scientific research value. Fragrant fruit trees are large deciduous trees that prefer moist and fertile soils, and are mainly distributed in the northeast to central Yunnan.
Wu Yunfeng, deputy director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Anning City:
When we did the Plant Resources Survey in 2020, we found this species of fragrant fruit tree. Later, I checked the information that it was a national second-class rare and endangered plant, and the place with the most anning fruit trees was beacon mountain village, and there were a few sporadic ones in other places. After discovering this situation, we asked experts from the Institute of Botany to do a census for us in December last year and listed it on the mountain.
Wu Yunfeng introduced that the wild community of fragrant fruit trees found this time is mainly in the more than 300 acres of mountain forest next to Beacon Mountain Village, and there are more than 40 trees in preliminary statistics, and seeds are planted from August to October. Among them, the community on the slope next to the village is larger, there are more than 10 trees of all sizes, the highest is about 30 meters by sight, the bark is gray-brown, scaly, the thickest diameter is about 30 cm, the leaves are broad and oval, the leaves are large, the triangular ovate, the branches are divided, and the entire canopy is like a pagoda.
Bijiashan villager Su Xiang:
In our village, the fragrant fruit tree is called stinky camphor tree, and I was born in 41 years, and I had this tree when I was born. The leaves of the fragrant fruit trees begin to fall in November, and the flowers are some white and some pink.
In order to better protect the wild community of these fragrant fruit trees, the Municipal Forestry and Grassland Bureau has taken a number of measures.
The first is to ask the Kunming Branch of the Yunnan Forestry Planning and Design Institute to help us do the planning of the protection community, and it is expected to complete this planning in October, and the next step is that we have budgeted 1.5 million yuan as a source of funds for this protected community.
The second is that we plan to completely fence this 320 acres of mountain forest and fence it with barbed wire, in order to prohibit too many people from going in to graze and harvest.
The third is that we plan to build a guard house around this mountain forest, professionally manage this fragrant fruit tree, and build a seedling breeding base next to the fragrant fruit tree.
All-media reporter: Li Yanmei Li Qi (text/photo) Editor: Wang Heng