Tibet Plants

Tibet's complex topography and widely varying climates result in an abundance of natural resources. Its eastern and southern parts are largely covered with primeval forests, home to rare plants.

Tibet is like a giant plant kingdom, with more than 5,000 species of higher plants. Gyirong and Yadong counties and Chentang Town in western Tibet, and Medog and Zayu counties and the Lhoyu region in southeast Tibet are like museums of rare plant life. Even northern Tibet with its extreme natural conditions contains more than 100 kinds of plants.Particularly well-known medicinal plants include Chinese caterpillar fungus, Fritillaria Thunbergii, Rhizoma Picrorhizae, rhubarb, Rhizoma Gastrodiae, pseudo-ginseng, Codonopsis Pilosula, Radix Gentiane Macrophyllae, Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae, glossy ganoderma, and Caulis Spatholobi.

Tibet is also one of China's largest forest areas, preserving intact primeval forests. Almost all the principal plant species, from the tropical zone to the frigid zones of the northern hemisphere, are found here. Forestry reserves exceed 2.08 billion cubic meters, with a coverage rate of 9.84 percent. Common species include Himalayan pine, alpine larch, Yunnan Pine, David's Pine, Himalayan spruce, Himalayan fir, hard-stemmed long bract fir, hemlock, Monterey Larix potaniniis, Tibetan larch, Tibetan cypress, and Chinese juniper.

Tibet Nyingchi
Thanks to its geographical single Nyingchi is a treasure of flora, many of which are of great value to the economy and the doctor. Owing to its unique geographic environment, Nyingchi is a treasure for plant species among which many are of high economic and medical values. Nyingchi means “the Grand Seat of the Sun” in the language of Tibetan, is one of the 7 prefecture area of Tibet Autonomous Region. It is lying in the southeast of Tibet， the lower reaches of the Yaluzangbu River , with the Sichuan-Tibet highway running through the whole region from east to west. The capital township Bayi is about 400 km eastward of Lhasa city. Nyingchi is noted for its green mountains and clear water. The Himalaya and Tangula Mountains wind their ways from west to east like two colossal dragons and join the Henduan Mountains in the east.
The primitive forest of Nyingchi is well preserved that you can easily find the upright ancient plateau Tibetan cypress, the Himalaya cold cedar, the “living plant fossil”- the tree bracken and a vast variety of azaleas. Nyingchi therefore also has the name “the Natural Museum” and “the Natural Gene Pool”.
The major townships and scenic zones include the Economic Area of the Niyang River Valley, Bayi Town and the Scenic Zones of Yaluzhangbu River.
The tree of Chile

Adopted flowers and fruits and spices, warm in winter. The age of five years, the tree two meters high and the trunk can be as big as a human arm.

The king of the woods, the Banyan Tree

A local plant can "suffocate" the other big trees and takes his place. The bottleneck is the following: the birds eat the seeds and seed Bantambaum shit out of the trunk or branches. In spring, the seeds begin to grow, many roots, which hug the tree is on. The root system is banians developing so fast that eventually "swallow" the tree like a stone on his prey. That is why the Bantambaumbaum "king of the forest".

The Banyan Tree, Apple
The tree may be more than 10 meters high with a diameter of more than 20 cm. The two in the stems and leaves secrete an opaque juice and some bark is smooth and gray. The Bantambaum, usually a very large Banyan tree, and each crown leaves of about 10 to 25 cm long and 6 to 13 inches wide, with lots of buttons on the back. Interestingly for most fruits (4 to 6 cm in diameter) are increasingly on the wall of his young twigs. With the maturation of the fruits Greens finally turn purple. People call this wonderful spectacle of the "old industry to bear fruit."

Oil Melon

It is a kind of wood vine with many branches. The oval shape melon yellow and green is about a pound and has a diameter of 20 cm. Its flesh is white external hard drive, the milk and the meat inside orange. Everyone has the 8-12 melon seeds contain 71% to 77% of oil. Rich in fat and rich in protein and oil fragrance crystal clear. Its roots can be used as a drug for the treatment of a chronic illness or sterilization.