Native Woody Plant Resources and Their Characteristics in Taizhou

Investigations were conducted on native woodyplant resources from March 2010 to February 2011 in Taizhou, Zhejiang province by fieldinvestigation combined with literature review.The results showed that there were 993 species of native woody plants, belonging to 93 families and324 genera. Analysis on areal distribution type demonstrated that composition of families and genera was complex, with many geographical elementsand obvious transitional characteristics of the North to the South. Moreover, there were many endemic and rare plants, and diverse life forms. Thenative woody plant resources are distributed to different degrees in the West hilly area, the Middle hilly valley plain area and the East coastal plainisland area of the city, and the vertical one had evident regularity because of mountain climate and soil.