China stores the largest, intact tropical primitive rainforest now -Spike mountain range, lie in the southwest of Hainan Island, extend across Le Dong, the east two the Li nationality autonomy city, county, the whole area is 600 sq. km., the main area of forest zone is more than 260 sq. km.. The highest peak has an elevation of 1412 meters. The strand city Sanya of the south can reach the spike mountain range when walking 50 kilometers to the Northwest the most from China.
The spike mountain range is living beings one kind of source gene pools that the typical representative and tropical area of the northern fringe of the earth of the tropical forest of China are important. The forest vegetation here is various, the animal kind is abundant, 2800 multi-type that there are plant kinds, accounts for 8% of China, accounts for 85% of Hainan Island. The intersection of vascular bundle and plant of here have nearly more than 2000 kinds only, tropical precious varieties of trees there is 80 multi-type among them.
Come into the spike mountain range, see the ancient wood reaching to the sky at the moment, there are numerous good timbers. The grotesque root, deep-rooted tendril twine each other in the sea of woods, form a lot of natural protective screens. Even on those big withered trees, there are epiphytes that are bred ingeniously, in different poses and with different expressions, too beautiful to be absorbed all at once.
The ground floor of the rainforest, it is countless fungi, and the flowers and plants of all kinds; In the river valley area of six or seven hectometres in elevation, the hard high-quality arbors such as stone Chinese catalpa, yellow wingceltis not rotten in iron, millennium grow intensively. Contemporary with the dinosaur here The living fossil of the plant Tree brake, several meters or backbone more than ten meters high chins up and chests to appear from the mountain stream very much.
This stretch of tropical primitive rainforest is an animal world too. There are apes with long arms and a black comb one of four major anthropoid apes, and 16 kinds of animals such as clouded leopard here; There are nearly 150 kinds birds, the insect is 4000 multi-type. There are more than 300 kinds of butterflies alone, can be with known as butterfly s kingdom ing Taiwan Province relevant match in excellence or beauty.
Blue sky and white cloud, the intersection of gorge and brook, reach to the sky ancient tree, birds and beasts, strange to spend the people grass, rare species, the spike mountain range is embodied everywhere Return to nature Theme.