Huocun Huocun Primary School:

Huocun Primary School in Luogang District, Guangzhou is located on Fei 'eling Mountain in Huocun Village, Dongqu Street, Luogang District, Guangzhou. The school was established in September. 1950. The campus is clean and tidy, with reasonable layout, trees and flowers. The school covers an area of 18069 m2, with a building area of 623 1 m2. There is an ancient tree in the school-banyan.

School address: No.50, Li Gang Street, Huocun, East Street, Guangzhou Development Zone. The Zhong family has been bred in Luoganghuo Village (formerly known as Guo Village) for 26 generations. An 899-year-old camphor tree behind the village witnessed the whole process of their ancestors' immigration, settlement and reproduction, and the digital civil and military moves came into being. 6 1 years ago, the villagers built Huocun Primary School around this old camphor tree, which is still flourishing today, sheltering children from learning and playing at its feet.

The banyan tree tried to "eat" the old camphor tree

People in the village are used to honoring it as a "Millennium Tree". The old camphor tree is flourishing, with a DBH of 2.4m and a height of 23m. The crown of the tree has been greatly trimmed, and many branches have been cut off from the thick position of the bucket, but the coverage area is still much larger than the basketball court at the foot. I don't know when the vicissitudes of life are covered with moss. Today, even this epigenetic moss is covered with parasitic vines. It is no longer a simple tree, but a small ecology dominated by it.

School children also like to call it an "immature tree" because a very strong banyan tree grows near the pocket of the old camphor tree. Although the age difference is several hundred years, the difference in trunk diameter is not too big, so the child is understood as "immature".

In fact, this banyan tree is biting the old camphor tree tightly. In contact with the camphor tree, the trunk of the banyan tree has been deformed into a "big mouth", devouring part of the trunk of the old camphor tree. Once the fibrous roots of the banyan tree grow up, the life of the old camphor tree will be worrying.

However, when the banyan tree exposed its "attempt", people began to stop this behavior of banyan trees and let them live in harmony. "Another tangle." A teacher at Huocun Primary School said to tear it up. Because they are worried that the longer the banyan tree grows, the more fibrous roots are entangled with the old camphor tree, which will affect the growth of the old camphor tree, so teachers often have to clean up the newly entangled fibrous roots of banyan trees.

However, the naive and kind children in Huocun Primary School understand the cruel phenomenon of plants competing for living space as the meaning of harmonious symbiosis and friendship, so many children write essays to praise the friendship between "winning trees".

A century-old tree. Here is a piece.

Because Huocun Primary School used to be the geomantic forest in Guhuo Village, the big trees here have been protected by local people for many years.

So there are not only nearly 900-year-old camphor trees, but also more than 500-year-old China cones, as well as Ficus tenuifolia, Cinnamomum camphora and Pu Shu. There are 8 ancient trees over 100 years old. China cones, which are more than 500 years old, have only one trunk left, and the diameter of the budding branches next to them is 30 cm.

Gushu business card

Tree Name: Zhangshu

Age: 899 years old

Venue: Huocun Primary School, Luogang Street, Luogang District

Health: Good.

Gushu business card

Tree Name: China Cone

Age: 5 10 years old

Venue: Huocun Primary School, Luogang Street, Luogang District

Health: The original trunk has died, and now the trunk is a new branch that grows from the original trunk.

Origin: The location of Huocun Primary School was originally the hill behind the tenth generation ancestral hall of Zhong family in Luogang. In 1950s, the geomantic forest behind the ancestral temple was gradually transformed into Huocun Primary School. Most of the trees in the Fengshui forest were replaced by houses, and only the ancient camphor trees and huazhui near the ancestral grave of Zhongyuan and some ancient trees around the school survived. In the fourth survey of ancient and famous trees in Guangzhou, the ancient camphor tree and Chinese vertebra are over 300 years old.