The world's wood, ancestral populus euphratica - inventory of four major populus euphratica forests in Xinjiang

 

Luxuriant foliage is a way of life;

Withered fingers are also a way of life.

Keep the roots, there is a chance of green filling branches.

The world's wood, the ancestor is populus euphratica.

Along the way to the west to Xinjiang, in addition to the famous Kanas, there is a more stunning, beautiful as fairyland autumn color, poplar forest.

Poplar in the desert, is a veritable hero tree, a poplar tree, can firm an mu of sand, pieces of poplar forest, can block the wind flying sand. I have always thought that I have not seen the proud poplar forest in autumn, even if I have not seen the most perfect golden autumn. God gave the most beautiful autumn to poplar forest.

In the Uyghur language, Populus euphratica is called Toklak, which means "the most beautiful tree". Because of its amazing ability to resist drought, wind and sand, salt and alkali, it can survive and multiply in the desert, so it is praised as "desert hero tree".

People praised the huge vitality of populus euphratica as "three thousand years", that is, one thousand years of immortality, one thousand years of immortality after death, one thousand years of immortality after falling.

More than 90% of populus euphratica in China are distributed in Xinjiang, and 90% of them are concentrated in Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang, except for a small amount of populus euphratica in Qaidam Basin, Hexi Corridor and Alashan in Inner Mongolia.

In late autumn, golden populus euphratica makes the banks of Tarim River picturesque and brilliant. The poplar forests in these places in Xinjiang are worth your visit in late autumn...

Xinjiang Luntai Populus euphratica forest is one of the ten most beautiful forests in China. The large area of populus euphratica forest is integrated with rivers, deserts, Gobi, oases, sand lakes, ancient roads and desert grasslands.

Autumn October, is the most beautiful season of populus euphratica, the wilderness of the populus euphratica forest to put on its most splendid costumes in a year, golden leaves in the sunshine, but also layers of dyed, beautiful, the monotonous desert decorated like a fairy tale world as beautiful.

In Luntai Tarim Poplar Forest Park, in addition to feeling the perseverance of golden poplar, you can also experience the magnificent grandeur of the sea, you can also take a vintage sightseeing train, walk through the endless golden ocean, a view of poplar forest, red willow bush, reed, Qiyang River, forest lake and other beautiful scenery, enjoy the charming scenery as beautiful as fantasy.

Populus euphratica forest is a typical desert forest meadow vegetation type in Tarim River basin, which is distributed from the upper valley to the lower river bed. Whether it is the morning glow dyeing, or wearing the sunset, poplar forest gives people a sense of mystery at the same time, but also let people interpret the vitality and hope.

Deep in the forest, there are flocks of goats, and the whole poplar forest is suddenly more lively. It is said that on a good day, wild deer, nogitsune and hare can be found there.

Even if you do not enter the scenic spot, along the desert highway outside the park, there are also a large number of very beautiful original poplar forest, which is also worth seeing, in the golden autumn, poplar forest decorated the Taklimakan Desert highway, making it the most beautiful corridor in southern Xinjiang.

From the Mu Lei Ming sand Mountain to the north of 30 kilometers, you can see a lush, shading forest belt, that is the famous Mu Lei primitive poplar forest.

For thousands of years, they have fought the encroachment of the desert with their dogged will. What is amazing is that these tree-trunks with clank of iron bones have a variety of shapes, some like Kunpeng wings, some like steed hooves, and some like delicate girls. It's a natural palace of art. A poem writes: "Short like a dragon and snake number deformation, squatting like a bear and a tiger squatting high hill." Hippie like a god fox nine tails, ferocious like a night fork teeth claws."

Populus eukaryote is a national second-class endangered protected plant, and the woody populus eukaryote forest is more than 65 million years ago. The lonely shadow of the tree is silently waiting in the border of China and Mongolia for 65 million years, witnessing the replacement of many dynasties. "Live a thousand years and not die, die a thousand years and not fall, fall a thousand years and immortal" Euphratica spirit praised how many people.

The woody poplar forest still maintains its original style, and there is no trace of carving in other scenic spots, which is called a virgin land.

Although it has gone through the vicissitudes of life, it still maintains its ancient original style. Populus euphratica is a kind of primitive tree species with strong vitality, which is praised as the warrior against the desert.

The blue sky, the lush golden leaves, and the withered and ferocious trunk constitute a beautiful picture with sharp color contrast and strong visual impact.

Yiwu Populus populus is the most unique trunk shape on the earth, is the oldest populus populus on the earth, and is the closest to the city on the earth.

The scenic area is divided into three areas to show people: one thousand years of life, three thousand years of history, six thousand years of vicissitudes. Among them, the tree that six people have joined together but not embraced, the tree spirit that has not died for four thousand years, and the tree monster that has not died for six thousand years, are Yiwu Populus.

Yiwu Populus in the thousands of miles of fierce wind thousands of times to fight, with their own body to resist the raging wind sand. Due to the hardships of growth, the shape of Yiwu Populus eueutica is strange, and it has entered the palace of abstract art, making you nostalgic.

Continue your journey into Zepu, which once belonged to the Shache State of the Western Regions, the Buddhist kingdom of Khotan, the kingdom of Kuzi and other former places. In the southwest of the county, 40 kilometers from the clear Yerqiang River, there is a natural poplar forest.

The Yerqiang River originates from the meltwater of the Karakoram glacier on the Pamir Plateau, forming many alluvial fans that nourish the Yerqiang Oasis, then bypasses the Taklimakan Desert and eventually becomes one of the four sources of the famous inland river Tarim River.

This natural poplar forest covers an area of 20,000 mu, because the golden autumn tree shadow reflected in the lake, since the name Jinhu Poplar. Compared with Ejin, Xinjiang's populus euphratica forest, the biggest feature is the water, such as Zepu in the Yerqiang River, and Luntai in southern Xinjiang's mother river - Tarim River bank. The water is delicate and soft, and the nature makes the magnificent trees more dynamic.