Tetracentron grows in Mt. Ailao for 60 million years

The Tetracentron trees have been found growing for more than 60 million years in the Mt. Ailao forests in southwest Yunnan’s Pu’er city.

Mt. Ailao is a world-class hotspot in biological diversity, and the Ailao section in Jingdong county alone houses 2,242 plant species.

Tetracentron is likened as a living plant fossil left over from the Tertiary Period.

The rare plant belongs to an angiosperm under the second-class state protection in China.

It is of great value for studying the origin of angiosperms and the evolution of ancient Chinese flora.

Source: Jingdong Digital Media; Trans-editing by Mo Yingyi