Kitefruits in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden in southwest China's Yunnan Province have been blooming recently.
Hiptage candicans var. harmandiana
These plants are unique to tropical and subtropical areas of Asia. Of the 30 species of the kitefruit genus, 12 can be found in China.
Hiptage lucida
Years of evolution have equipped the plants with special pollination characteristics such as mirror-image flowers and heteranthery, in which a single flower has different types of stamens, to attract more insects.
Hiptage pauciflora
Hiptage minor
(All photos are provided by Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden.) (CGTN)
Net primary production (NPP) is the total energy (or nutrients) accumulated by an ecological unit of interest. Scientists from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a study to examine how and why partial net primary produc...
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