Introduction to the Five Wonderful Trees: There are "Five Wonderful Trees" in the temple: the Empress Dowager Cixi's Hanging Clothes Cypress (also known as the Chaikong Cypress) in front of the Sutra Hall, two Mimosa Trees (also known as the Itchy Tree), and a century-old double leaf Cypress (meaning tree of unity, tree of harmony), a double-leaf cypress that shocked plant experts, two century-old Hong Kong purple goldenrod trees and a century-old lilac tree.

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