Where is the origin of Luohansong?

Luohan pine, also known as Luohan fir, evergreen Luohan pine, Taxodium, gold pine, etc., is an evergreen coniferous tree of the family Luohan pine family, with a wide ovate crown, grayish brown to dark gray bark, meticulous and uniform material, and easy processing. It can be used as furniture, utensils, stationery and agricultural tools. Fruits, root bark and leaves are of medicinal value. Let's take a look at where the pine is produced.

Where is the origin of Luohansong?

Luohan pine is native to China, but due to historical reasons, the number of large-scale Luohan pine is very few, and the number of large-size green seedlings is also very limited. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and other places are cultivated in the garden as ornamental trees, and there are very few wild trees, which are also distributed in Japan.

The producing environment of Luohansong

Luohansong likes warm and humid climate and weak cold resistance. It is often used as pot ornamental in North China. It has strong negative tolerance, likes sandy loam with good drainage, strong adaptability to soil, and can survive on saline-alkali soil. It has strong resistance to sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen oxide and other pollution gases, strong resistance to diseases and insect pests, and commonly used sowing and cutting propagation.

Cultivated varieties of Pinus elliottii

1. Taiwan Luohansong is a small evergreen tree with alternate leaves, linear oblanceolate leaves, obtuse apex, leaf margin revolute, flowers axillary, male flowers solitary, cylindrical sessile, female flowers single, drupe seeds, oval, ripe dark blue, receptacle fleshy, ripe red. It is found along the coast of Lanyu Island in Taiwan and is also distributed in the Philippines. It is fond of high temperature, moist and sunny environment. It has good salt tolerance and strong wind resistance, but poor drought tolerance, cold tolerance and negative tolerance. It can be used in coastal windbreak forest belt, hedgerow, garden beautification, potted plant and so on.

2. Japanese Luohan pine: the bark of Japanese Luohan pine is dark gray, scaly and cracked, branches and leaves are dense, leaves are spirally arranged, linear-lanceolate, 7-10 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, apex acuminate or obtuse, base cuneate, short stalked, midrib obviously raised on both sides. Male cones spikelike, often 3-5 clustered leaf axils, female flowers solitary leaf axils, pedicellate. The seed is ovoid, less than 1 cm in diameter, purple or purplish red at maturity, covered with white powder, inserted on the fleshy receptacle, receptacle red or purplish red, pedicellate.

3. Sparrow tongue Luohan pine: sparrow tongue Luohansong is a precious, easy to shape and easy to manage excellent tree species, the leaf is about 1.8 cm long and 0.4 cm wide, the spring head is obtusely oval, the leaf head is not pointed, and the veins in the middle are prominent, such as the tongue of a bird, which is fleshy. Common are Zhejiang Sparrow tongue, Nantong Sparrow tongue. Generally take the Nantong sparrow tongue as the authentic, if the summer and autumn tips are pinched after autumn every year, it appears that the branches and leaves are dense, the leaves stand, the internodes are short, very beautiful and neat. Old potted plants often form strange roots, which are very good to see after lifting. For many years, the cross section of old potted plants is often not round, which is also one of its characteristics. Zhejiang sparrow tongue is characterized by divergent leaves, pointed head and thin quality.