Rare and rare plants flower after three decades

A rare and precious tree of the Magnolia family has just sprouted flowers, after appearing in the botanical garden in China 30 years ago.

In 1983, a manglietiastrum of the Magnolia family was introduced to the Kunming Botanical Garden in Kunming City, the administrative center of China's Yunnan Province. Currently the height of the tree has reached 13m.

Rare flowers of manglietiastrum in the garden
Botanical Garden of Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. (Photo: China Daily)

From then until the beginning of this year, it did not flower. But recently the botanical garden staff saw its flowers appear, China Daily reported.

Experts from the botanical garden commented that flowering showed that their experiment was successful and that they could take the same measures to protect rare or near-extinct plant species.

Magnolia is a flowering plant family of about 210 species. They are distributed in many parts of the world - from Southeast Asia, East Asia to the Americas.

Manglietiastrum is a plant endemic to China. Biologists have only found 37 plants in the wild in three districts of Yunnan province. The Chinese government put it on the list of plants that need to be protected since 1999. By 2011, the World Conservation Union put it in the Red Book.

Artificial breeding is the only way to prevent the risk of extinction of manglietiastrum because they rarely breed in natural environments.