The cuckoo king of the Millennium
The cuckoo king of the Millennium
On the east slope of the azalea Caotang in jiuchongshan National Forest Park, Chengkou County, Chongqing City, there are lots of azalea distributed with beautiful tree shape, beautiful flowers, green leaves and luxuriant branches, which have high ornamental value. One of the most beautiful trees is called the Millennium azalea king.
The tree is 5 m high, with a hemispherical crown of 3 m × 3 m. It is more than 1000 years old. It has 25 branches and tens of thousands of leafy branches from its single root. It looks like a huge canopy with bright colors. The old leaves are flat as lampstands, the young leaves are clustered as wicks, and the big pink double petals bloom in early may (d = 10cm). Ten thousand red flowers, like ten thousand torches of life, play out the symphony of life. Every August and September, 5 mm long golden fluff grows on the back of the tender leaves, and the crown looks like a golden fluff ball.
On the cliff of the main peak of Baoding mountain in Shahe Township, Dianjiang County, Chongqing, there grows a Rhododendron king for thousands of years!
The height of the tree is close to 10m, and the diameter of the main trunk is close to 1m!
The Millennium azalea tree king is an important landscape of Baoding mountain. According to research, it is 1600 years old. It grows on the back cliff of Bajiaoting, the highest peak of Baoding. It is a purple Rhododendron with luxuriant branches and leaves, and its trunk needs two people to embrace. It is a miracle that a small shrub can grow into such a towering tree on the stone wall which is short of nutrition and water. And not thousands of years is not so long!
Address: Jinggangshan Dujuan mountain scenic spot
Longitude: 114.20748138428
Latitude: 26.514230728149
Chinese PinYin : Qian Nian Du Juan Wang
The cuckoo king of the Millennium
