Taiwania flousiana seed

LATIN NAME: Taiwania flousiana

COMMON NAME: Taiwania

The Taiwania is a handsome, upright, tall, evergreen conifer of the cool mountain forests, and its fine, scale-like or awl-like, blue-green leaves and its small, round, woody cones have made it a treasured and remarkable conifer of the region. It grows as an upright, tall, evergreen conifer, reaching up to sixty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the fine, scale-like or awl-like, blue-green leaves that lie closely along the branches and, through the warm months, the small, round, woody cones of the many small seeds. It is a species of the coniferous tree in the cypress family, and it is native to the cool mountain forests of the eastern Asia, while it is treasured for its fine, tall, stately form, and it is known as the Taiwania.

In the cypress family it is the great, blue-green conifer of the cool mountains, a species whose straight, towering trunk has stood in the forest canopy for the ages.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Taiwania holds a place of honour in the conservation papers of the great conifers, since the towering tree of the cool mountain forests has lost much of its wild ground, and the botanists and the conservationists have kept the species close to the centre of the work. The conifer specialists have studied the fine, scale-like and awl-like leaves and the straight, tapering form, and the foresters have examined the valuable, straight timber of the region. The native trees are to be protected in their forests, never taken from the wild. Great, blue-green and protected.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the cool, moist garden, the Taiwania is the tall, blue-green conifer of the big garden. Its woody cones feed the small creatures, and the dense, evergreen crown gives shade and shelter to the birds through the year. The straight, valuable timber has served the building of the region, and the conservation of the tree has been of the greatest importance. The native trees are protected and best left to their forests. Tall, stately and significant.

The small seeds sit inside the round, woody cones — shake them out and sow them shallowly over the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining, lime-free soil, keep the pots moist in a bright, sheltered, cool spot and never let them dry out, and the first fine shoots will appear in time.