Coral trees, ginkgo trees, poplar trees, ailanthus, and coconut trees.
1. Coral tree
Coral tree (scientific name: Viburnum odoratissimum? Ker.-Gawl.) is a plant of the Caprifoliaceae family and the genus Viburnum. The branches are straight, the bark is gray-brown, with round lenticels, the leaves are opposite, oblong or oblanceolate, the surface is dark green and shiny, the back is light green, and it is green all year round.
The cone-shaped corymb inflorescences are at the top, and white bell-shaped flowers bloom from March to April, which are fragrant; after the flowers recede, they reveal oval-shaped fruits, which are orange-red at first, and then gradually change from red to purple-black, resembling corals. , it is very ornamental, hence its name. The flowering period is from April to May (sometimes blooming irregularly), and the fruit ripening period is from July to September.
2. Ginkgo
Ginkgo (scientific name: Ginkgo biloba? L.) is a plant of the Ginkgo family and genus Ginkgo. The tree is up to 40 meters high, with a diameter at breast height of up to 4 meters. The bark of young trees is shallow and longitudinally split, and that of large trees is grey-brown, deeply longitudinally split, and rough. The crown is conical in young and mature years, and wide and oval in old age.
The leaves are fan-shaped, with long stalks, light green, hairless, with many forked parallel thin veins, the top is 5-8 cm wide, often with wavy notches on short branches, and often 2 on long branches. Split, base broadly wedge-shaped. The cones are dioecious and unisexual, growing in the axils of the scale-like leaves at the top of short branches in clusters; the male cones are catkin-like and drooping. The seeds have long stems, drooping, and are often oval, long-obovate, oval or nearly spherical in shape.
3. Poplar
Poplar (Latin scientific name: Populus L.) is a plant of the genus Populus. There are more than 100 species in the genus, of which there are about 62 species in my country (including 6 hybrids) species), of which 57 species are distributed in China, and about 4 species have been introduced for cultivation. In addition, there are many varieties, modifications and introduced strains.
The Populus classification system is divided into five major groups: Tacamahaca, Leuce, Aigeiros, Turanga, and Leucoides. The trunk is usually straight; the bark is smooth or split vertically, often grayish white. Mainly distributed in vast areas such as Central China, North China, Northwest, and Northeast China.
4. Ailanthus altissima
Ailanthus altissima is a deciduous tree in the family Ailanthus, with gray to gray-black bark. Its original name is chū, and it is also known as the chū tree and the wood huller. The tree is named after the odor emitted from the glands at the base of the leaves.
It is native to northeastern China, central China and Taiwan. Grows in temperate climate zones. This tree grows rapidly and can reach a height of 15 meters in 25 years. This species has a short lifespan, rarely surviving more than 50 years.
5. Coconut tree
Coconut tree (Latin scientific name: Cocos nucifera? L.) is a large plant of the genus Cocos in the palm family. Coconut is the fruit of the coconut tree. A fruit commonly grown in tropical areas. The popularity of the coconut tree is also related to the fact that its fruit, coconut, can drift thousands of kilometers in the sea with wind and waves before reproducing far away from the mother tree.
Coconut trees are evergreen trees native to the tropics. The trunk is about 15-30 meters high, with a single crown. The leaves are pinnately divided, 4-6 meters long, with many lobes, leathery, linear-lanceolate, 65-100 cm long, 3-4 cm wide and apex acuminate; the petiole is thick, more than 1 meter long.