Did you see Taxodium hybrids there? Supposedly, they are growing cuttings by the millions.

stunning.. ken

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Super cool :) Is that white-flowered plant a Rhederodendron, by chance?

Posted by lou_midlothian_tx z8 DFW, Tx (My Page) on Mon, Jun 3, 13 at 16:00

I have no idea. Do you think some of the trees in the pics are related to Taxodium?

Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Jun 3, 13 at 16:09

Thank you Ken. The Chinese phrase you cited is urban and used to describe a hot female. It is not a suitable word here=) Nevertheless, it is so good to learn that GW uses unicode now.

Posted by Random_Treelore none (My Page) on Tue, Jun 4, 13 at 13:06

I don't know what the first flowering white-bell is. Maybe someone could ID.

Pinus hwangshanensis in the first pic.

Pic 3 looks like mainly Cryptomeria japonica (widely cultivated / naturalised in China), and some Abies sp.

Resin

The "first flowering white bell" looks like it could be a Styrax..
I'm no angiosperm expert, though. ;-)

-Sam

yikes... my apologies.. if necessary ... lol

'stunning' was the 4th in a series of descriptive words ....

regardless.. thx for the pix ....

ken

Posted by pineresin 8/9 UK (My Page) on Tue, Jun 4, 13 at 19:20

How about the (pine?) trees in pictures 11 and 12.

"How about the (pine?) trees in pictures 11 and 12"

11 - too misty to see enough detail!

12 - probably more Cryptomeria japonica.

Resin

Now, there is a video available:

Trip and later the Mt. Lu Pine

Note, Mt. Lu is pronounced "lu shan" in the video.

Beautiful pictures. I would like to go there, but it probably won't happen at my age.
I did several landscapes for a family named Lu. Both the father and the son. Before I retired, 30% of my landscape design and installation business was for people of Chinese descent. They were all friends.
Mike

Posted by botann z8 SEof Seattle (My Page) on Mon, Aug 19, 13 at 11:38

Mike, I meant to update and add a video link in the first post here. I can also tell how many people watched the video from GW :) Let me know if you do not see an English caption in the video.

The video had English captions. Mt. Lu reminds me of the hikes I used to take when I was younger. I hiked a lot in The Olympic Mountains here in Washington State. After looking at that video, maybe I have a few hikes left!
Mike

The reason I asked about Taxodium is because supposedly they are being planted everywhere.

Here is a link that might be useful: Taxodium in China

Another interesting tree in China - Taxodium X Cryptomeria hybrid aka Dongfangshan. It has been around for a long time. Is it true hybrid? Who knows but it looks very cool.

If you ever make a trip to that part of China, check them out.

Here is a link that might be useful: Dongfangshan

"Another interesting tree in China - Taxodium X Cryptomeria hybrid aka Dongfangshan. It has been around for a long time. Is it true hybrid?"

No.

The claimed hybrids were tested genetically, and proved to be pure Taxodium with no Cryptomeria inheritance.

Resin

Resin, I already knew that. Probably should have written a bit more on that. I'm going to check out the grafted ones probably in November.

It's just that it's curious that that taxodium has been around since 1963 and no one in USA has it till SFASU got it recently. It does look different for T. mucronatum so who really knows?

Hi Resin and Lou, in Chinese, that name Dongfangshan refers to the tree native to Mexico and US. May be, you guys can create a true hybrid :)

Hi Resin and Lou, in Chinese, that name Dongfangshan refers to the tree native to Mexico and US. May be, you guys can create a true hybrid :)

Juju,

China apparently got a huge advantage on hybrids. Just not on taxodium x Cryptomeria though.

One thing about T. mucronatum aka Montezuma cypress is that they don't seem to develop nice form like Bald cypress I see in a lot of places. Almost every year, my favorite Montezuma cypress is at my old college that seems to produce consistent nice form seedlings like BC but grows faster and stay more evergreen into late fall/early winter unlike others. Maybe it is because there are bald cypress everywhere to breed with, who knows? Here is a picture of MC seedling that was grown from a seed from that tree.

Posted by lou_midlothian_tx z8 DFW, Tx (My Page) on Mon, Aug 26, 13 at 22:29

Your tree look superb!

Nice! Like the Lushan pines!

Juju,

Here's a pic of MC x BC hybrid T-407 behind my brother's backyard in Houston, Texas that I gave him a couple years ago. I can imagine that there are a lot of large ones somewhere in China.

Posted by lou_midlothian_tx z8 DFW, Tx (My Page) on Tue, Sep 3, 13 at 20:39

That is exceptionally beautiful. Are they available commercially?

Posted by sluice z6a CO (My Page) on Mon, Sep 2, 13 at 23:25

Lushan or Mt. Lu is actually well known in American literature.

American writer and novelist Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) grew up in a town in the range of Mt. Lu. She has an American classical novel The Good Earth which described Mt. Lu in great detail. The novel was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.

Eventually, in 1938 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for The Good Earth "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."

If you ever go to Nacogdoches, Texas to visit the arboretum at Stephen F Austin State University, you might get all hybrids (T-27, 405,406, 407, 302, and 502). Just have to contact Dr. Creech. Not sure where you live in USA though but I don't know how cold hardy they are though. Maybe zone 7? No Idea. SFA arboretum are growing a lot of them to give out for evaluations across the southeast region of USA. That's what I am doing in central Texas to see how they do here. So far, so good.