Shangrao County, Hometown of Camellia oleifera in China

200 1 Shangrao County was named "the hometown of camellia oleifera in China" by the State Forestry Administration.

Shangrao County is located in the northeast of Jiangxi Province, in the east of Wuyi Mountain Range, in the southeast of Huaiyu Mountain Range, with mountainous areas in the north and south, alluvial plains and eroded hills in the middle, with a saddle-shaped landform, and is located in the east longitude11741'-kloc-0/14' north latitude. The length from north to south is 132km, with a total land area of 3.369 million mu, including 24 1 10,000 mu of woodland, including 765,000 mu of camellia oleifera forest, accounting for 22.7% of the county area and 3 1.7% of the woodland area.

Shangrao County has 765,000 mu of Camellia oleifera forest, which is distributed in all towns and villages of the county. Among them, the towns with an area of over 30,000 mu include Hucun, Qingshui, Huanggu, Tan Huashan, Wang Xian, Fenglingtou, Zheng Fang, Shiren, Zunqiao and Huangshaling.

Camellia oleifera is a cross-pollinated plant. In the process of natural hybridization and artificial selection, a variety of varieties have been formed. At present, Camellia oleifera in Shangrao County can be divided into red peach, green peach, pearl seed, cold dew seed, first frost seed, beginning of winter seed and other varieties according to their morphological characteristics and early maturity, all of which belong to white Camellia oleifera. In addition, there is a small amount of Camellia oleifera distributed at higher altitudes, such as Wufushan, tan shan and Sanqingshan. In recent years, Jiangxi Hua Fu Honghua Co., Ltd. has cultivated a large number of safflower oil tea seedlings through seed collection, and planted them in high-altitude places such as Yaoshan Branch in Huatan Town and Xinfeng Forest Farm in Wangxian Township.

There are five processing enterprises in Shangrao that process more than 500 tons of tea oil annually, with Jiangxi Sanqingshan Green Food Co., Ltd. as the leading processing enterprise, with an annual processing capacity of 65,438+million tons of refined oil and 2,000 tons of crude tea oil, with an output value of 98 million yuan. The main product types are: organic camellia oil, safflower tea oil, edible tea oil, tea cake and so on.