Dafengding Nature Reserve: the paradise for ancient plants
     

    2022-12-09 by Sichuan International Communication Center

    Dafengding Nature Reserve is located in Meigu County and Leibo County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Mabian Yi Autonomous County of Leshan City, with the coverage of over 1000 square kilometers.

    As a paradise of ancient plants, it owns a great number of precious and rare plants like Chinese dove trees, miao trees, cercidiphyllum japonicum trees, gingko trees, tetracentron sinense trees, etc. There are over 30 kinds of orchids, including the precious types. It's also a treasure house for medicinal plant, containing over 1000 kinds of medical plants, including ciliatenerve knotweed, tu-chung, gastrodia elata, coptis chinensis, etc.

    What's more, it's a habitat of wild giant pandas. According to the observation, there lives about 30~40 wild giant pandas.