Tian Mulan (City Flower)

Magnolia sieboldii, also known as nymph flower and small magnolia. Magnoliaceae, deciduous small trees. The plant height is 36 meters, the highest is 10 meters.Branchlets light gray, buds about 1 cm, dark purplebrown, all villous. The leaves are alternate, the petiole is 1.56 cm long, the blade is obovate or obovate, 725 cm long, 610 cm wide, the stem is round or round wedgeshaped, short apex apex, green surface, pink powder on the back White, pubescent. Flower body diameter 810 cm, pedicel length 45 cm; flower buds slightly pink; 9 perianth, white, obovate or obovate oblong, 45.5 cm long, 23 cm wide ; Stamens are mostly purplered, anthers open inward, pistil group oval. Aggregate fruit ovate, 46 cm long, 2 cm wide, red, apex pointed. The seeds are orangeyellow, nearly round, and about 6 mm in diameter. Flowering period is 6 months, and fruiting period is September October. In secondary secondary broad leaved forests, shady slopes or wet   valleys. The flower color is beautiful and can be used as medicine. The leaves contain aromatic oil with an oil content of up to 0.2%. Since the magnolia Magnolia   not only has ornamental value, but also has a high economic value, the municipal government determined the flower as Benxi City Flower.

The oldest willow tree in Benxi is a large willow tree that grows in the hot spring temple sanatorium. This big willow tree is over 400 years old. The trunk of the tree is thick and strong, and the two can hug each other; some of the roots are exposed, and the exposed roots are as hard as bones. In summer, the trees are luxuriant and leafy, and the shade is huge, covering the sky and covering the sun, becoming a place where many convalescents cool off. Because of its long history, the tree is vigorous and picturesque, and has become a scene in the spa area of the Wenquan Temple.

Within the territory of Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, there is a zone with an abnormal ground temperature of about 15 kilometers. The wonderful thing about this abnormal zone of ground temperature is that the change in underground temperature is exactly the opposite of that in nature. The changes are particularly noticeable in the hills about 1,000 meters long and about 20 meters wide after the residents of Yingpangou, 1.5 kilometers south of the Shajianzi town government, ren Hongfu ’s house. On a summer day more than 90 years ago, when Ren Hongfu ’s father built a slope protection wall at the north end of Fangshan Mountain, he saw a uniform air spur from the cracks in the rock removed from the top soil. A small hole less than 67 cm long and 83 cm deep was built. More   than 90 years have passed, and slope protection walls and small holes are still intact. In summer, the temperature on the ground gradually rises, but the temperature in the slope protection wall drops sharply. People standing only one or two minutes away from the entrance of the cave are only a minute or two, and they will be blown by the cold air. The eggs that Ren Jia put in the hole were cracked, and the sugar water put into a cup was frozen into ice. The temperature in thecave in midsummer reached -15. C. The rainwater flowing into the cracks in the slope protection is frozen into icicles. In the winter season, the snow is frozen, but   the ground temperature is abnormal, but the steam is steaming, the grass is green, the spring is strong, and the planted horn vines have strong leaf fertilizer. In recent years, the wax wood and oak wood brackets used by the Renjia in the plastic sheds have also sprouted and have green leaves. National, provincial, and municipal geological experts have conducted investigations on this anomaly, but the mystery of the anomaly of the geothermal temperature has not yet been revealed.

Huanren Manchu Autonomous County, located in the mountainous area in the east of Benxi, is located in the transition zone between Changbai flora and North China flora. Due to the variety of plants, it constitutes a treasure trove of plant species. There are 349 species of 93 genera and 48 families in arbor shrubs. The timber tree species are mainly red pine, larch (including Japanese tree species), Mongolian oak, splitleaf elm, spruce, fir, maple birch, white birch, green poplar, alder, red willow, etc. Subarbores, shrubs such as Araliaceae, wild rose, and hazelnut. The tree species and number are the highest in Benxi area. Among these forest plants, the most tree species are oak trees; the oldest and rare tree species are the Northeast Sequoia (also known as yew) called living fossils; the rare and precious tree species are sorrel, tilia, ash, yellow pineapple , Walnut tree, Yellow elm, Northeast ginseng, red clove, cowhide rhododendron, broadleaf durian, etc.   Formed a sea of trees with a wide variety of trees, a rich forest resource library.