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	Larch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, in the family Pinaceae.
		Larches are among the dominant plants in the immense boreal forests of Russia and Canada.
		Larch cones are erect, small, 1-9 cm long, green or purple, ripening brown 5-8 months after pollination; in about half the species the bract scales are long and visible, and in the others, short and hidden between the seed scales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Larch (499 words)

	Larch - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Multiserialis with long bracts), but genetic evidence does not support this division, pointing instead to a genetic divide between Old World and New World species, with the cone and bract size being merely adaptations to climatic conditions.
		Larch is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Autumnal Moth, Scalloped Hazel and The Engrailed.
		You can find it there under the keyword Larch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larch)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larchandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Larch (542 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The drier plateau of the Hongshan in the east is dominated by Yunnan pine and alpine meadows, and the rain-shadowed Yangtse valley by sparse dryland scrub.
		It is concerned with developing scenic zones for tourism, building the necessary infrastructure during the first five years (2001-2006), then expanding and improving it in phases: first overall planning for the area, then action plans for the scenic zones in general, then in detail, and then of scenic sites.
		The Yunnan Great Rivers Project initiated by the US based Nature Conservancy (TNC), working in conjunction with the provincial government, aims to integrate conservation and sustainable development in the area as a pilot scheme for the country.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/Three_Parallel.html (4562 words)

	Travel Yunnan China:Cities:Lijiang Attractions:The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain
		She is a botanist's paradise, a " kingdom of medicinal materials." Of the 1 3,000 kinds of plants in Yunnan, more than half of them can be found on Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as well as 400 types of trees in 20 primeval forest communities.
		She is home to 30 kinds of animals protected by the state, such as the wild ass, the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, the lesser panda, the forest musk deer, the clouded leopard, the blood pheasant, the silver pheasant, and the spotted, yellowish civet cat.
		She is one of Yunnan's protected nature reserves, and a certain fee is charged to those for making scientific investigations, collecting animal and plant specimens, taking photos and shooting films.
	www.travelchinayunnan.com /city/Lijiang/attraction/yulong.htm (740 words)

	Encyclopedia of General Culture: Yakut
		Arctic and subarctic tundra define the middle region, where lichen and moss grow as great green carpets and are favorite pastures for reindeer.
		In the southern part of the tundra belt, scattered stands of dwarf Siberian pine and larch grow along the rivers.
		Larch trees dominate in the north and, in the south, stands of fir and pine begin to appear.
	encyclopediageneral.blogspot.com /2005/09/yakut.html (1558 words)

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		The remaining 56 million hectares of natural forests are found primarily in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan and Sichuan and in small, isolated areas in southeaster Chia.
		A wide variety of deciduous and coniferous species are used, with emphasis on Chinese fir, eucalypt, paulownia, pines and larch (the criteria for species selection is the ability to achieve certain minimum annual growth rates under given climatic and soil conditions).
		Seeds for Chinese fir, masson pine, larch, poplar, and some of the broadleaf species will be locally harvested from clonal seed orchards, seed stands, or areas of selected provenance for the species concerned.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1994/05/09/000009265_3961005231210/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (16814 words)

	Scythia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chinese adopted the Scythian-style animal art of the steppes (descriptions of animals locked in combat), particularly the rectangular belt-plaques made of gold or bronze, and created their own versions in jade and steatite.
		Excavations of the prehistoric art of the Dian civilization of Yunnan have revealed hunting scenes of Caucasoid horsemen in Central Asian clothing (Mallory and Mair, The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West, 2000).
		The burial mounds concealed chambers of larch logs covered over with large cairns of boulders and stones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthocorybantians (5083 words)

	Vegetation IN CHINA
		Larch forests dominated by Larix gmelini and L.sibirica are found respectively on the Da Hinggan Mountains in extreme northern China and in the Altay Mountains of northwestern China.
		Broadleaf evergreen forests of the transitional tropics are more or less similar in general appearance and structure to those of tropical forests including the trees with plank buttress roots, stranglers, and cauliflory; however, the trees belong to both subtropical and tropical families.
		Tropical rain forestsf are found locally on the eastern sides of Hainan Island and Taiwan Province and in the southern Yunnan where the local climate is saturated with moisture throughout the year.
	www.fao.org /ag/agl/swlwpnr/reports/y_ea/z_cn/en/text_e/d3.htm (1741 words)

	UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		American larch occur in meadows and fl spruce and dwarf larch dominate wet areas.
		Between 2,300m and 3,600m the forest is largely coniferous and subalpine characterised by spruces, larch and birches.
		Pine and larch dominate the higher elevations and subalpine scrub woodlands occur in the valleys.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /wh/reviews/forests/annex1_table.htm (6009 words)

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		The metasequoia, Chinese cypress, Cathay silver fir, China fir, golden larch, Taiwan fir, Fujian cypress, dove-tree, encomia and camplotheca acuminata are found only in China.
		The golden larch, one of only five species of rare garden trees in the world, grows in the mountainous areas in the Yangtze River valley.
		Ginseng from the Changbai Mountains, safflowers from Tibet, Chinese wolfberry from Ningxia and notoginseng from Yunnan and Guizhou are particularly well-known Chinese herbal medicines.
	chinadatacenter.org /chinageography/chaptersectionview.asp?cid=1&sid=7 (416 words)

	Black Snub-nosed Langur (Pygathrix bieti)
		At Bamei, northern Yunnan Province, China, the fl snub-nosed langur was found to live primarily in cypress forests (Zhong et al.
		Wu, B. On spatial layer usage and locomotor type of the Yunnan snub-nosed langur Rhinopithecus bieti in its habitats.
		Wu, B.Q. and Xian, R.L. Significance of the particular locomotory behaviour of Yunnan snub-nosed langur (Rhinopithecus bieti) in northwestern Yunnan, China.
	members.tripod.com /uakari/pygathrix_bieti.html (2383 words)

	Larix kongboensis from Tibet
		The nomenclature of the "Sikkim Larch" is discussed, and it is concluded that Larix griffithii J. Hooker, not L.
		Specimens of this have been seen from Yunnan as well as northern Myanmar; again, it has been recorded from Xizang but verification is necessary.
		It is a small tree, twenty to forty feet high, perfectly similar in general characters to a European larch, but with larger cones, which are erect upon the very long, pensile, whip-like branches; its leaves,--now red--were falling, and covering the rocky ground on which it grew, scattered amongst other trees.
	flora.huh.harvard.edu /china/novon/mill2-9-1.html (1928 words)

	Himalayas - MSN Encarta
		In the Middle Himalayas at elevations between 1,520 and 3,660 m (between 5,000 and 12,000 ft) natural vegetation consists of many species of pine, oak, rhododendron, poplar, walnut, and larch.
		In central Nepal, in an area between about 1,830 and 2,440 m (between about 6,000 and 8,000 ft), the Indian and Tibetan cultures have intermingled, producing a combination of Indian and Tibetan traits.
		The eastern Himalayas in India and nearby areas of eastern Bhutan are inhabited by animistic people whose culture is similar to those living in northern Myanmar and Yunnan province in China.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573695_2/Himalayas.html (1229 words)

	Geography \| Travel in China
		Major tree species found here include conifers, such as Korean pine, larch and Olga Bay larch, and coniferous-broadleaf trees such as white birch, oak, willow, elm and Northeast China ash.
		Major tree species in the southwest include the dragon spruce, fir and Yunnan pine, as well as teak, red sandalwood, camphor, nanmu and padauk.
		China has a wide variety of flowering plants; the peony, a flower indigenous to China and known as the "king of flowers" is characterized by large blossoms, multiple petals and bright colors, and is treasured as one of the country's national flowers.
	www.travel-in-china.com /discovery/Geography.php (1875 words)

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		at Yunnan University, Zhou studied the fungi associated with the bark beetle Tomicus piniperda attacking Pinus yunnanensis in Collecting bark beetles and fungi in a sawmill near Yanji, in Jilin Province, Northern China Southwestern China.
		A research proposal was compiled and submitted for a project with FABI as the South African, Yunnan University and the Southwest Forestry University, as the Chinese counterparts.
		In terms of the project, a survey would be conducted on the fungi associated with conifer-infesting bark beetles in the two most important forestry provinces in China: Yunnan in the Southwest and Jilin in the North.
	www.up.ac.za /academic/fabi/tpcp/newsletters/Nov2002/13.php (605 words)

	Land and Mineral Resources
		Major tree species found here include conifers, such as Korean pine, larch and Olga Bay larch, and broadleaves such as white birch, oak, willow, elm and Northeast China ash.
		Major tree species of the southwest include the dragon spruce, fir and Yunnan pine, as well as precious teak trees, red sandalwood, camphor trees, nanmu and padauk.
		Often called a "kingdom of plants," Xishuangbanna in southern Yunnan Province is a rarity in that it is a tropical broadleaf forest playing host to more than 5,000 plant species.
	www.chinaconsulate.org.nz /eng/zggk/zrdl/t44061.htm (534 words)

	Yulong Xueshan- Jade Dragon Snow Mountain - Lijiang destination guide-Yunnan Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Yulong Xueshan, The Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is located in the southern section of the Hengduan (transversely faulted) Mountain ranges, about 15 km north of Lijiang County.
		As Yunnan is the origin of tea, Jade Snow Mountain is home to a rare tea - Wild Snow Tea -which the Naxi insist is good for high blood pressure.
		It ripens in the winter time and Naxi men, women and children flock to the mountain in November, December and January to pick it.
	www.yunnantour.com /lijiang/yulong.htm (541 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests (PA0509)
		The Hengduan Mountain System includes a complex of ridges and river valleys that rise between the western margin of the Yunnan Plateau and the eastern margin of Tibet.
		Spruce forests dominated by Picea likangensis and P. brachytyla occur in the mountains of northwest Yunnan (3,100 to 3,500 m).
		In 1998, the Chinese government began to enforce a ban on logging in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan Province out of concern that increased erosion in the deforested areas was responsible for increased siltation and flooding on the lower Yangtze River.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0509_full.html (1221 words)

	SCYTHIA FACTS AND INFORMATION
		It flourished between the 7th and 3rd centuries BC in a mountain fastness known to be held by a group of Scythians that may have called themselves Sacae.
		Some Scythians may also have migrated to the area of Yunnan in southern China, following their exodus from by the Yuezhi.
		Owing to their reputation as promulgated by Greek historians, the Scythians served as the epitome of savagery and barbarism in the early modern period.
	www.palfacts.com /Scythia (3951 words)

	GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION Three Para
		Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is situated in south-west China.
		Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is composed of a group of protected areas stretching 310km from north to south and 180km, from east to west in remote, forested back-country.
		The land area encompassed by Three Parallel Rivers of Yunnan Protected Areas is one of the world's least disturbed temperate ecological areas, an epicentre of Chinese endemic species and a natural gene pool of great richness.
	www.ngariwiri.com.au /geography.htm (4249 words)

	Botany Photo of the Day: Conifers Archives
		The pendulous conifer is a wild-collected Larix occidentalis, or western larch.
		The tree's habit is regular, narrow, and tall, with pendulous, golden brown branches somewhat reminiscent of Larix occidentalis (western larch), from the mountains of southern British Columbia and the northwestern United States.
		Sikkim larch is native to the high subalpine regions of the eastern Himalayas.
	www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org /potd/conifers/index.php (5984 words)

	My Heart's in LIJIANG - Best Tourist Attractions
		Ringing in my ears is the ancient music I was able to enjoy there - those melodies free and natural which, though dating as far back as to the period of full literary grandeur in Tang Dynasty corresponding to the 8th 1 century, still fascinates people of today.
		This is a world of lush green, with trees of the Yunnan pine, Huashan pine, Chinese hemlock, dragon spruce, Chinese larch and fir growing at different heights from the foot of the mountain and up, which are intermingled with chestnut trees.
		We are told that this is home to more than 100 arbor species in more than 20 forest for three seasons of the year - Spring, Summer and Autumn - when azalea of more than 5,000 varieties are in full bloom, their beauty magnified by winter jasmine and rough gntien blossoms.
	www.chinaplanner.com /attractions/97e_15.htm (1822 words)

	JC Raulston Arboretum - 1994 Connoisseur Plants
		Cercis yunnanensis ‘Celestial Plum’ - "Chinese or Yunnan redbud (Leguminosae).
		An exceptionally beautiful monotypic genus of deciduous conifer tree from China with lacy fern-like foliage in summer and brilliant golden fall color; fast growing.
		Unlike the true larches that it resembles, it grows very well in the south tolerating the heat and poorly drained soils.
	www.ncsu.edu /jcraulstonarboretum/horticulture/connoisseur_plants/1994/connoisseur_plants_1994.html (2729 words)

	China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
		Tibet adjoins Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the province of Qinghai in the north, Sichuan in the east, Yunnan in the southeast, and such countries and regions as Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Sikkim and Nepal in the south and west along an international border of nearly 4,000 km.
		Forestry reserves exceed 2.08 billion cubic meters and the forest coverage rate is 9.84 percent.
		Common species include Himalayan pine, alpine larch, Pinus yunnanensis, Pinus armandis, Himalayan spruce, Himalayan fir, hard-stemmed long bract fir, hemlock, Monterey Larix potaniniis, Tibetan larch, Tibetan cypress and Chinese juniper.
	www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Tibet.htm (2138 words)

	Monochamus alternatus Hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is a dangerous forest insect pest, causing serious problems in China and Japan.
		Pine (Pinus), Larix, Cedar, Larch, Fir (Abies), Spruce (Picea), Juniper (Juniperus), Oak (Quercus), Apple, etc. Pinus massoniana is the most infested tree in China.
		In Southern China, the beetle often infests weak pine trees caused by the Pine caterpillar Dendrolimus punctata Walker.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~baodew/monochamusA.htm (411 words)

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		PUBESCENT OAK LARIX COMMON LARCH RUSSIAN LARCH SIBERIAN LARCH KURILE LARCH JAPANESE LARCH SIKKIM LARCH CHINESE LARCH TAMARACK.
		Tsuga yunnanensis, Masters,2 which was discovered by PÃ¨re Delavay in the mountains near Likiang in Yunnan, is unknown to me. Franchet considers it to be closely allied to T. Sieboldii.
		chinensis.1 These were collected in N.E. echuan by PÃ¨re Farges, and in the mountains of western Yunnan at 9000 feet altitude by PÃ¨re Delavay.
	djvued.libs.uga.edu /text/2tgbitxt.txt (18936 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests (PA0514)
		Below the subalpine belt, coniferous forests give way to stands that are dominated by broad-leaved trees (either evergreen or deciduous), although some lower-elevation conifers like Tsuga dumosa, T. chinensis, Taxa baccata, or Pinus wallichiana may also occur.
		It is also found in Assam, Yunnan, and northern Burma.
		The lower reaches of the Tsangpo River and its tributaries form the eastern part of the Southern Tibet endemic bird area.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa0514_full.html (1198 words)

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