Chinese bird fishing plant

The Chinese fishing bird has a white winged bird-like flower, symbolizing peace and imported from China. The name is commonly referred to as copper, the scientific name is Davidia involucrata which is often grown in the mansion in Geneve, Switzerland.

Fruit of copper (Photo: rz.uni-karlsruhe)

The bronze is a leafy tree, deciduous, 15-20m high, the leaves have an egg shape. In envelopes is an autologous flower, consisting of many male flowers growing around a female flower. Purple purple flowers are like bird heads. By the time the flowers bloomed, it looked like a bunch of white doves on a tree branch. Wind blowing, dancing flowers also captivated people.

In 1896, a French monk kept an eye on the brass tree in Sichuan - China. Later, people entered the UK gradually becoming a landscape tree in Europe, so it was called a Chinese bird bird.

The fruit is as big as a apricot, oval, egg-shaped, purple-green with 20% oil, making the oil very good.

Together with the family with Camptotheca aeuminate, they grow copper, which can extract anti-cancer substances.

The bronze remains precious in that it is a living fossil. A million years ago, it was also distributed around the world. By the fourth ice age, the floodwaters (floods) caused them to become extinct in many places, with little remaining, in the high mountains 1200-2500m. Some old trees are up to 30m high and more than 1m in diameter. This is a Chinese plant that is listed on the list of protected plants.

The leaves are milky white, growing one by one in the flower base, like the wings of a bird
(Photo: .rz.uni-karlsruhe)