(Photo/People's Daily Online) A rattlesnake plantain, boasting the smallest seeds in the plant kingdom, revealed its blossoms deep inside the mountains at the Nangunhe National Nature Reserve in southwest China's Yunnan Province in September. The photographer described the plant as having erect flower stems covered with tiny hairs.
Photo of a traditional ethnic-minority village in the Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (People's Daily Online/Hu Zunhui) The World Heritage application for the cultural landscape of the Jingmai Mountain Ancient Tea Forest in southwest China's Yunnan Province officially got underway in June 2010.
With its generous sunshine and abundant rainfall, southwest China's Yunnan Province is endowed with rich varieties of precious flowers and plants, being home to more than 2,100 decorative plants, among which at least 1,500 are flowering plants. Camellia, magnolia, lily, azalea, fairy primrose, orchid, herba meconopsis, and radix gentianae are eight of the best-known flowers in Yunnan.
Recently, a baby loris was born at a wild animal rescue center in Dehong Dai and Jingpo autonomous prefecture, southwest China's Yunnan Province. It is reported to be China's first loris baby that was given birth to in an artificially-bred environment.
