Orchid plants add new species: hemp chestnut slope jade phoenix flowers

researchers at the Xishuangdana Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently "encountered" an orchid they had never seen before on a roadside hillside while conducting a study of jade phoenix plants in Ma Lipo, Wenshan, Yunnan Province. It is like an elf, in the weeds out of the head, bathed in the rain after the sun.
, investigators found more of the orchid in nearby hillsides and damp valleys. After taking photographs to identify, confirmed that it is a member of the Yufeng flower genus. Liu Qiang associate researcher carefully examined a large number of literature and specimens, and finally decided that it is a new species of jade phoenix plant, this conclusion has been unanimously recognized by peers. According to the distribution, it is named Ma Lipo jade phoenix.
the lime mountain forest at an altitude of 1500-1700 meters. In form, it is closest to Wolong jade phoenix flowers and so on. Lanco jade phoenix plants around the world as many as 600 species, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. China currently records 59 species, 19 of which are endeth to China. Jade phoenix plants because they have 2 pairs of raw tubers, shaped like human kidneys, so the folk image called "double kidney ginseng." Many of these species are important medicinal plants of our country's tradition, and some kinds such as TheNayu Phoenix are of great ornamental value.
the study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the results have been published online in
journal. (Source: Science and Technology Daily Zhao Hanbin)