Wooden frame in the Kangding fault, there is a rhododendron valley about 6 km. Early summer, azaleas are quietly opening up on stream banks, water in the fallen flowers. Azaleas Western gardening plays an important role in contribution of tourism excellence. China can be described as the kingdom of rhododendrons, azaleas southwest of the Wild species is abundant. Rhododendron, State Road 318 is accompanied by a precious flower resources. In Luding, Kangding and Shimian Gongga Mountain in Sichuan Province within the flora one of the richest region, the towering mountain blocking the southeast monsoon moisture, slope, rainfall is abundant rhododendrons prefer damp environments Flowers provide a suitable habitat. Total distribution area in Mt rhododendron about 80 species, mostly four-Trent species. Azalea in Mt domestic distribution is one of the largest. In the cold and wet sub-alpine shrub meadow, and twisted the leaf type rhododendron shrub with densely barren moraine was born on an amazing adaptation and vitality in the lonely winter in an environment poor quiet growth. In fact, the beauty of azaleas is not only reflected in the gorgeous flowers, the Botanical Garden in the distant Europe and America, gardeners like these mountain rhododendron bush cultivation into the roadside hedge, so that the pedestrians to fully enjoy the azaleas branches of the United States. Gesang Hua Aster Tibetan people, azaleas, primroses, and so many highland flowers Pan said. Linzhi and Lhasa in between the mountains near the village of Mira, local residents said Gesang Hua means is over the mountain azaleas. They told us: "see Gesang Hua is to see the hope, because it marks the arrival of summer and the rainy season." Southeastern Tibet's Nyingchi, Zayu, Bomi, Millington, Medog and the Himalayas south of the Yadong, Nyalam azaleas and other places is the most concentrated distribution, brilliant azaleas open early collectors of natural not avoid this line of sight. Historically, the first Westerner to enter Tibet and one of the areas of plant collection, most originating in Tibet azaleas are introduction and cultivation of Western garden, which will collect many types of azaleas in the Tibet region to the seed planting Western Botanical Garden, according to the results described in the flowering of new species.
If it missed the blossom, and we see on the plateau will be over the mountain azaleas grow dark green shrub compact. August to help the southeast of Tibet grassland, dwarf rhododendron shrubs and alpine meadows interlaced grass. In the cold, windy conditions, the body of water in order to reduce transpiration, alpine evergreen leaves of rhododendron understory small tree-like than the azaleas around the world to be so small that 960 kinds of azaleas, while China is undoubtedly the world Rhododendron the most abundant species on the country. According to the "Flora of China" records, China has 540 kinds of azaleas, and the "Flora of China," English "Flora of China" contains 571 kinds of azaleas, excluding cultivated species and hybrids, the current recorded in the natural distribution of wild azaleas 566 species, of which about 419 types of endemic, accounting for 74% of all types. According to the views of the majority of botanists, is a cross-sectional mountain azalea core area of origin and differentiation, the distribution of the region about 259 kinds of azaleas, accounting for 46% of all types. Transverse mountain flora and fauna in our country one of the most important, China's famous botanist Shude Jun academicians who will be hailed as the Tibetan Plateau in the plant kingdom plant resources in the one title, while the transverse mountain plant resources are embedded in the This is a pearl on the top crown. Rhododendron resources make the rich Pearl flash a bright luster. Visible along State Road 318 azaleas.
Azalea, Azolla, and according to the white mountains in the 318 National Road Shanghai to Hubei, Chongqing, more common along the way; widely distributed in northern China in this period of welcome red rhododendron is also a small amount of distribution. In addition to the above four, the figure in the rest of the rhododendron in both variety and shape than those of the eastern section of National Highway 318, much richer. Among them, the growth of the highest tree rhododendrons, in the wild, tree height up to 20-30 meters cuckoo.
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