Xanthocyparis vietnamensis of late discovered and classified by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew .
For those of us who are over - curious , who crave find , especially with plants , the word that Modern metal money are still being discovered somehow is a routine reassuring . Two new everygreen plant , late name are rather interesting , peculiarly since the specimen discovered we ’re rather mature . I am one who periodically o a bit romantic about the nineteenth hundred century botanical explorer , or even the modern day botanic explorers like Dan Hinkley . ( oh , if only . ) , but the realities of modern spirit requires many of us to work day by day , do home hangout , compensate the mortgage , etc , and the phantasy of take off for six or so week to go explore for new species in China or New Zealand has lilliputian chance of becoming a realism . Believe me , I keep try out to get tempt on one of these ventures , hopefully one that would require perhaps 2 week , but nothing had become a reality , yet .
The discovery of unfeignedly newfangled specie are not not uncommon in the world of Instects , but major discoveries in the plant world ( tree , for example ) , especially those with ornamental or commercial-grade economic value , is rarer still . Take these two recent ( in the preceding ten years ) discoveries , Xanthocyparis vietnamensis from Vietnam , and Wollemia nobilis , from New South Wales , in Australia .
Xanthocyparis vietnamenis , Vietnamese gilded cypress tree , is a fresh discovered , critically queer conifer only know thus far from a qualified area of limestonemountains in Ha Giang province in Vietnam , close to the Chinese border . The alreadysmall universe was believed to be threatened by selective logging . Sound intimate ? But late finding intimate that the population exists in a micro ecosystem on the highest ridges of the spate range of a function , and are in fact passably isolated from the danger of both logging and fire . I know little beyond on - line research regarding the preservation position , but feel gratis to discover more for yourselfhere .
This species is being introduced for testing at various Botanic gardens and inquiry centre such as Kew . It has some hope as an ornamental , specially when new , since it has the funny morphological lineament of get two different type of leaf , one when immature , and another when matured . It appears that although more tender than others in the Xanthocyparis clan ( Xanthocyparis nootkatensis , the Alaskan Cedar , for case officially Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ) , this species does show hope as a container works in colder areas ( such as USDA zone 5 ) , but this tree diagram should do well in the Pacific North West . Wollemia nobilis from the Wollemi home page / University of Hamburg . The other new mintage is theWollemi Pine , which can now be found at a few on - line retailers , in the US , tryPlant Delights Nursery .
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