Flora of China

The flora of China is diverse. More than 30,000 plant species are native to China, representing nearly one-eighth of the world's total plant species, including thousands found nowhere else on Earth.

For flora in the Republic of China, see Flora of Taiwan.
For the publication, see Flora of China (series).
Hydrangea macrophylla
A path between some bamboo.

China contains a variety of several many forest types. Both northeast and northwest reaches contain mountains and cold coniferous forests, supporting animal species which include moose and Asiatic black bear, along with some 120 types of birds. Moist conifer forests can have thickets of bamboo as an understorey, replaced by rhododendrons in higher montane stands of juniper and yew. Subtropical forests, which dominate central and southern China, support an astounding 146,000 species of flora. Tropical rainforest and seasonal rainforests, though confined to Yunnan and Hainan Island, contain a quarter of all the plant and animal species found in China.

The flora of China has an online database which gives both a taxon's description and its taxonomy.[1] (see also, List of electronic floras.)

Cultural significance
TitleSymbolPicture
National treeMaidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba)
National flowerPeony (Paeonia)
National fruitsFuzzy kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa)

Jujube/Chinese Dates (Ziziphus jujuba)

National vegetableBok Choi (Brassica rapa chinensis)
National cropsRice (Oryza sativa)

Soya beans (Glycine max)

References
  1. eflora: Flora of China


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