What is recorded in Southern Vegetation?

Southern Vegetation mainly records the plants in Panyu, Nanhai, Hepu and Lin Yi. It is the first book describing southern plants in ancient China, and it is also the earliest existing local flora in the world.

This book is divided into three volumes: the first volume, 29 species of grass, such as banana, jasmine, cardamom, crane grass, water lotus, calamus, willow autumn and so on; There are 28 kinds of wood in the volume, such as banyan, Liquidambar formosana, Alpinia oxyphylla, Cinnamomum cassia, Aralia elata and Pinus tabulaeformis. The next volume describes fruits and bamboo. There are litchi, coconut, orange, citrus and other fruits 17 species, and 6 species of bamboo such as Qiuyun bamboo, Shilin bamboo and Simao bamboo. This book describes 80 kinds of plants. Mostly subtropical plants.

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