简介
Parashorea chinensis Wang Hsie, a large tree, 40-60 m tall, 60-150 cm dbh; bark gray or brown, the upper part of the trunk is shallowly longitudinally fissured, the lower part of the straw bale is blocky and exfoliating. Young branches are scaly and velvety, with rounded lenticels. Leaves leathery, elliptical or elliptic-lanceolate. The wood of Wangtian tree is hard, durable, resistant to decay, and not easy to be decayed by insects; it is brownish-yellow in color, without special odor, straight in texture, uniform in structure, easy to process, smooth in planing, and beautiful in pattern, and is a high-grade wood for manufacturing various kinds of furniture.
It was discovered in the forests of Xishuangbanna in 1975 by a forestry expedition of Yunnan Province, China. The genus has a total of 11 members, mostly distributed around Southeast Asia 2B. The Wangtian tree is a rare species of specialty that only grows in Yunnan, China, and is only distributed in a 20-square-kilometer area from Xinzhai to Jingpu in Xishuangbanna's Mianbeng and Guangnali.