Huxiang's natural calendar 丨 shocking glimpse ㉑ Giant vine flying dance

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, Bai Lu Day 15

They are divided into a clear posture, but they must live in a attached attitude. In tropical and subtropical dense forests, palm vines may make people who first see it doubtful, but it is enough to make people feel deeply shocking.

"Teng" is often connected with "weakness", but palm vines are not related to "soft" and "weakness". Although they do not grow independently, they need to be accompanied by trees, but they do not show weakness with the trees to fight for sunlight, nutrition, and living space. , Breaking the son.

There are many types of palm vines. Most of them have grown in Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places, which are rare in Hunan. At present, people have discovered the only rod vine, which is the strongest adaptation to the environment in palm vines.

In some deep mountains of Luzhou, the wand vines flying from the ground to a large tree with a height of 20 or thirty meters high, wrapped around and hanging the ring by itself. Due to the super strong ability to infuse the tissue, the rod vine stems are tens of meters or even hundreds of meters from the root system, and the branches, leaves and flowers and fruits can also get sufficient moisture and nutrients, so as to quickly generate strong feathers and grape skewers. , Together with the tough vine stems, the "Giant Vine Flying" wonders can be seen from anyone at a glance.

More than 1500 years ago, Chinese people used this extraordinary vine to make elegant and durable vines. Compared with other palm vines, the texture of the rod vine is harder, and it is more suitable for the skeleton of the vine or simply as a cane that supports people.

But it is very difficult to break the cane vine. They are all over the body, and they need to cut the rattan from the base with a special hook knife, and then hook the rattan from the branches and leaves, and then cut off the miscellaneous leaves with a machete to peel the leaf sheath to remove the whole rattan.

From the perspective of natural distribution, Hunan's original wild rod vine is relatively small. Nowadays, the area of ​​natural forests has decreased sharply, which has further reduced the survival space of the rod vine. This tough and crazy giant vine is also endangered.

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Wandevan, Palm Palm Provincial Vine Plants, clusters. The leaf sheath stem is generally 3 to 4 cm thick; the leaf feathers are fully cracking, the top does not have a slim whip, the feather slices are neatly arranged, and the petiole is dark brown scales, which are neatly columns. The male flowers are round and blunt triangular, and the female inflorescences are twice; the fruit is oval, the seeds are wide and oval, slightly flat, the surface is tumor, the embryo is chewing rotten, and the embryo is based. Flower and fruit period from April to June.

Text/Peng Yahui Picture/Zhang Fan Design/Zhou Ziqian Think Tank/Zhang Fan Comprehensive Coordination/Zhang Hui Coordinating/Zhou Yuegui Special Support/Hunan Forestry Bureau

[Edit: Wang Yaobing]

[Source: Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client]

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