The latest planting prospect of Taxus chinensis

Taxus is the third century left over plants, known as the plant kingdom in the "living fossil", because of its scarce resources, is listed as the world's rare tree species to protect, Taxus medicinal value of its main extracts-secondary metabolic derivatives-paclitaxel, paclitaxel is the earliest from the bark of Taxus brevifolia isolated from the active ingredients of anti-tumor, with high planting value, let's take a look at the planting prospects of Taxus!

The planting prospect of Taxus chinensis

1. Taxus is a medicinal, timber and ornamental product, which has high development and utilization value. Taxol extracted from Taxus bark and branches is recognized as an anticancer drug in the world, and the price per kilogram is 5 ~ 10 million US dollars.

2. Paclitaxel is used to treat advanced breast cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, head and neck cancer, soft tissue cancer and digestive tract cancer.

3, yew branches and leaves for the treatment of leukemia, nephritis, diabetes and polycystic kidney disease.

4. Taxus chinensis is short of natural resources and medicinal resources, so it is widely studied and developed in various places.

Taxus whole body is treasure, so yew tree is also known as "golden tree", planting prospects are promising. Appropriate development can be carried out where conditions are ripe.

The planting value of Taxus chinensis

Taxus has irreplaceable medicinal value: from the international market, paclitaxel products have maintained a growth rate of 20%. At present, the global trade volume of paclitaxel has been maintained at more than 1.5 billion US dollars. After entering the 21st century, about 1500-2500 kg of paclitaxel will be consumed every year, and about 300 kg will be consumed in the United States alone. However, the United States can only produce about 50 kg; from the domestic market, although the output of paclitaxel stock solution in China is about 50 kg, only a small part is used for domestic patients, mainly exported to Europe, the United States and Japan. The demand for paclitaxel in China is conservatively estimated to be more than 1000 kg per year. The current raw material sources and paclitaxel pharmaceutical products are far from meeting the needs of the domestic market. Therefore, under China's policy of continuously expanding domestic demand, there are huge market prospects for taxol production and Taxus base construction in China alone.

2, greening: yew roots are very developed, can be widely used in the construction of water and soil protection forest, water conservation forest, is the national key ecological construction project preferred seedlings.

3. Horticulture: Taxus trees can be turned into round, umbrella, tower and other artistic shapes through artificial pruning, and are widely planted on both sides of roads, courtyards, parks and buildings.

4, indoor bonsai: the unique function of yew purification air has obvious effect on improving air quality.

Common Taxus Species Difference

1, Korean yew: long and pointed leaves, light color; trunk white; seed color black and red, slightly triangular, pointed at the front, after the small.

2. Taxus chinensis var. chinensis var.

3. Taxus chinensis: narrow and short leaves, darker color; red seed color, round head tip, smallest rear strand.