花坪与活化石银杉的发现

Huaping and Discovered of Cathay Silver Fir

说到广西保存的珍稀植物,人们首先会想到银杉,它是中国植物学工作者继20世纪40年代发现活化石植物水杉之后,发现的又一中国特有的活化石植物。它的问世令世界植物学界震惊,也使广西东北部的一处以往鲜为人知的山林—花坪,名声大振,成为世人瞩目的“绿色宝库”。 1954年暑期,广西农学院林学系钟济新教授带领学生到广西临桂县实习,经老农秦少英指引,在距宛田圩5公里之外,发现了大面积的天然林。1955年早春,利用寒假。

In May 1955, Cathay Silver Fir was found in the Huaping Forest Area in Lingui County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In 1961, a nature reserve was set up in Huaping. And in 1978, it was approved by the State Council to be a key National nature reserve where Cathay Silver Fir and the evergreen broadleaf forest ecosystem are specially protected.There are 1,040 Cathay Silver Fir trees, distributed in six areas, in Huaping. They are 16 to 20 meters tall in average. The oldest of them is 800 years.To date, scientists have also found Cathay Silver Fir in Sichuan, Guizhou and Hunan provinces and Yaoshan in Guangxi. But small in number, only a few thousand in total. Cathay Silver Fir is listed as a rare plant in China's Red Data Book on plants.