Introduction to ancient and famous trees: Kapok is the city flower of Guangzhou. There is a 300-year-old kapok tree in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. It has witnessed the decadence of the Qing Dynasty, the brutality of the Guangzhou Uprising, and the destruction of the Presidential Palace. It can be said that it is the oldest and most experienced kapok tree in Guangzhou as a witness to the construction of the memorial hall after the razing and the Japanese invasion of China.
When the memorial hall was laid and completed, the builders planted two white magnolia trees in front of the hall. Now they are lush and green. Every early summer and late autumn, the flowers bloom and the fragrance overflows, like two tall and loyal guards guarding the hall. Memorial Hall.
On the west side of the garden road between the south gate of the memorial hall and the main building, there is a large-leaf banyan tree that has gone through many vicissitudes of life. The circumference of the breast stem is 6 meters, the roots are exposed, the height is 0.5 meters, the root length is 4 meters, and there are ridges and The scales are like dragons playing under the trees.
There is a Ficus tenuifolia next to the open grassland in the park. The circumference of the tree's breast stem is 6 meters, the diameter of the crown is about 41 meters, and the tree shade covers an area of ​​more than 1,300 square meters. The fallen banyan seeds took root and sprouted again on the branches of the big tree, forming a strange scene of nearly ten small flying banyan trees supported on the mother branches.

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