The first discovery of the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains!

Recently, while organizing the biodiversity of Qinling in Shaanxi in our city, our city discovered a wild group of national second -level key protection of plant buckwheat leaf big lily. This is the first time that this species was discovered at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains.

During the field survey, Jiang Yang, a garden engineer of the Taiping National Forest Park, found in the forest area that there are obvious differences in the forest area. Li Zhonghu and doctor Liu Peiliang, a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Northwest University, conducted field investigations and detailed research, and confirmed that the species was a lily of the Lily of the Lily of the University of Science and Technology. According to statistics, in this area, there are about 50-60 wild buckwheat leaves. Li Zhonghu said that this is the first discovery of the species at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, and it is an important discovery of the "Shaanxi Plant" writing team on the survey of Qinling Plants. The latest national key protection wild plant list includes buckwheat leaf lily as a national second -level key protection plant.

Buckwheat leaf lily is a perennial herbaceous plant in Lily and Da Lily. It is distributed in East China, Central China, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Jiangsu and other places. There is a certain shading environment. The soil requires good drainage and is not resistant to direct light. Buckwheat leaf lily, high plants, large -scale foundation leaves in spring, lotus seats, green and bright; flower milk white or light green, purple stripes inside, flowers in the shape of the flowers, light fragrance. It usually blooms from July to August. As a result, it not only has high ornamental value, but also the lthyls and fruits of buckwheat leaves can also be used as medicine.

It is reported that the rivers in Xi'an areas are dense, water resources are rich, and the forest coverage rate reaches 48%. The superior natural environmental conditions have bred rich wild plant resources, which has created the diversity, particularity and preciousness of wild plant resources in our city. On September 7, 2021, with the approval of the State Council, the State Forestry Bureau and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Ministry jointly released the "National Key Protection of Wild Plants". According to preliminary statistics from experts, there are two types of national first -level key protected wild plants in the administrative area of ​​Xi'an and two types of governments in the south of the Southern Equipment. Rhododendron, Cymbidium, Mao Dilan, Zi Di Lan, Green Flower Land, Taibai Lan, Dugilan, Dugta, Water Green Tree, Lianxiangshu, Yunnan Red Scenery, Wing Fruit Tree Trees, temples, bald leaves, bald leaf yellow, fragrant fruit trees, and water song willow a total of 20 national second -level key protection wild plants.

Text: Gong Weifang, Chief Reporter of Xi'an Newspaper All Media, Liu Ruoxi, intern of Gong Weifang

Figure: Provided by Xi'an Natural Resources and Planning Bureau (Forestry Bureau)

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