The Discovery of Qiaojia Five-needle Pine

199 1 in the "information consultation" column of the first issue of Yunnan Forestry magazine, Xie Qingyao's article "What tree is it? This article is about a tree species in Qiaojia County. Its leaves are like Huashan pine, its cones are like Yunnan pine and its bark is like Pinus bungeana. Ask readers what kind of tree species it is. The provincial office of ancient and famous trees, which was investigating the resources of ancient and famous trees at that time, also got the photos and specimens of the tree. The office immediately sent Li, Zhu and others to investigate. According to the investigation results, Professor Li, a botanist from Southwest Forestry College, consulted Chinese and foreign literatures and thought that this species was a new and rare plant endemic to Yunnan. So Li named this tree species Pinus bungeana. Later, because only 3 1 plant was distributed in Qiaojia county, it was renamed Qiaojia five-needle pine.