{"id":1365639,"date":"2013-12-23T06:51:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:04:11","slug":"taiwania-cryptomerioides","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/taiwania-cryptomerioides\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwania cryptomerioides (Cultivated- California)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Taiwania<\/i> cryptomerioides<\/i> Hayata<\/span><\/font><\/a>, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 37: 330 1906<\/i>. (syn: Eotaiwania<\/i> fushunensis<\/i> Y.Yendo<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Taiwania<\/i> cryptomerioides<\/i> var.<\/span> flousiana<\/i> (Gaussen) Silba<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Taiwania<\/i> flousiana<\/i> Gaussen<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Taiwania<\/i> fushunensis<\/i> (Y.Yendo) Koidz.<\/span><\/font><\/a>; Taiwania<\/i> yunnanensis<\/i> Koidz.<\/span><\/font><\/a>);<\/div>\n
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Taiwania<\/b> (Taiwania cryptomerioides<\/i>) is a large coniferous<\/font><\/a> tree<\/font><\/a> in the cypress family Cupressaceae<\/i><\/font><\/a>, formerly listed in the segregate<\/font><\/a> family Taxodiaceae<\/i><\/font><\/a>. <\/p>\n

It is native to eastern <\/font>Asia<\/font><\/a>, growing in the <\/font>mountains<\/font><\/a> of central <\/font>Taiwan<\/font><\/a>, and locally in southwest <\/font>China<\/font><\/a> and adjoining <\/font>Myanmar<\/font><\/a> and northern <\/font>Vietnam<\/font><\/a>. It is <\/font>endangered<\/font><\/a> by <\/font>illegal logging<\/font><\/a> for its valuable <\/font>wood<\/font><\/a> in many areas. It is very likely that the range was more extensive in the past before extensive felling for the wood.[<\/span>1]<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/sup><\/font><\/p>\n

It is one of the largest tree species in Asia, reported to heights of 80 m tall and with a trunk up to 4 m diameter above buttressed base.[<\/span>2]<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/sup> The <\/font>leaves<\/font><\/a> are needle-like or awl-like and 8\u201315 mm long on young trees up to about 100 years old, then gradually becoming more scale-like, 3\u20137 mm long, on mature trees. The <\/font>cones<\/font><\/a> are small, 15\u201325 mm long, with about 15-30 thin, fragile scales, each scale with two <\/font>seeds<\/font><\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

The populations in mainland Asia are treated as a distinct species Taiwania flousiana<\/i> by some botanists, but the claimed differences between these and the Taiwanese population are not consistent when a number of specimens from each area are compared.<\/font><\/p>\n

The genus is named after the island of Taiwan, from where it first became known to the botanical community in 1910.<\/font><\/p>\n

The wood is soft, but durable and attractively spicy scented, and was in very high demand in the past, particularly for <\/font>temple<\/font><\/a> building and <\/font>coffins<\/font><\/a>. The rarity of the tree and its slow growth in <\/font>plantations<\/font><\/a> means legal supplies are now very scarce; the species has legal protection in China and Taiwan.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

(From Wikipedia<\/font><\/a>\u00a0on 23.12.13)<\/p>\n
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Gymnosperm Fortnight: Taxodiaceae- Taiwania cryptomerioides from SFO California-GS-48<\/a> : Attachments<\/span> (2<\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
5 posts by 3 authors.<\/div>\n
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Taiwania cryptomerioides<\/i> Hayata, <\/div>\n
tree with leaves of two types; juvenile leaves 12-18 mm long, sharp tipped, curved, keeled; adult leaves triangular, imbricate, 5 mm long; female cones globose 10-12 mm long.<\/font><\/div>\n
Photographed from SFO, California.<\/font><\/p>\n
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A completely new genus and species to me. I know this name Taiwania as a Scientific Journal only. <\/p>\n
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Name of the journal Taiwania is based on this species. They have an image of the cone as logo \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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I never thought this could be in India even in gardens !!<\/p>\n
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It is from UCBG California <\/p>\n
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The Plant List<\/a> \u00a0<\/span>WCSP<\/a> Wikipedia<\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/span>IUCN Red List (VU)<\/a>\u00a0 Coffin tree Taiwania cryptomerioides<\/a><\/font>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Taiwania cryptomerioides Hayata, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 37: 330 1906. (syn: Eotaiwania fushunensis Y.Yendo; Taiwania cryptomerioides var. flousiana (Gaussen) Silba; Taiwania flousiana Gaussen; Taiwania fushunensis (Y.Yendo) Koidz.; Taiwania yunnanensis Koidz.); \u00a0 Taiwania (Taiwania cryptomerioides) is a large coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, formerly listed in the segregate family…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[8012],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1365639","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-taiwania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1365639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1365639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1365639"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1365639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}