Chapter 465: Strange Botanical Garden
The World Tree has once again attracted the attention of the whole world, and it has become a daily attraction for money, and countless people want to book a room at the Treehouse Inn.
Some foreign businessmen are even willing to pay a sky-high price of $1 billion to buy a sapling of the World Tree, hoping to cultivate the world's second World Tree.
Some scientific institutions, through the analysis of tree branches, leaves, and other tissues, have cut off attempts to clone the World Tree.
The World Tree does not seem to bear fruit (it actually bears fruit, but it does not reach the fruiting period), cannot be cloned, and cannot be grafted by cuttings through guò branches, so if you want to own the World Tree as well, you can only buy it from the Taoyuan Group.
However, from the current point of view, Taoyuan Group has no plans to sell the saplings.
With the example of the World Tree, the Strange Botanical Garden, a plant improvement demonstration base just established by Taoyuan Group, also quickly became popular.
The Botanical Garden is not far from the World Tree and the Miracle Zoo, which contains rare plants transplanted from all over the world, as well as various new plants cultivated by Taoyuan Biotechnology through genetic improvement.
There are Taoyuan regenerative rice, super upland rice, evergreen forage series, sand fixing grass, improved sea buckthorn, new water hyacinth, devouring vine and improved mosquito repellent grass that have been popularized.
The introduction of the Guò Botanical Garden allows more people to understand the excellence of these varieties.
In the fruit tree area, each tree can produce different varieties of fruit.
Some peach trees grow six or seven kinds of peaches, such as yellow peaches, peaches, nectarines and peaches, while some pear trees grow eight or nine kinds of pears such as pears, fragrant pears, Sydney pears and crystal pears.
One of the largest fruit trees, which bears 55 varieties of drupes, reaches spring. Flowers of different colors and shapes also bloom.
Grafting techniques are not difficult. The difficulty is grafting in such large quantities. Moreover, the fruit to be grown is tasty, has a high yield, and has economic value.
Taoyuan Group obviously has a new technology in this regard, which can realize the various requirements of one tree and multiple fruits.
In the vegetable section, many species of "vegetable trees" are planted.
Tomatoes, eggplants, cabbage, peppers, pumpkins, winter melons, watermelons, melons, cucumbers and sweet potatoes are now grown on trees.
One of the most unique is the cabbage tree, which is different from other vegetables that are perennial or canopy to form a "tree shape", the cabbage tree here is a real tree with cabbage.
This cabbage tree is evergreen all year round. About ordinary people's calves are thick, only one or two meters high, and the cabbage that grows is pale yellow, delicate as jade, more like baby cabbage, the taste is more delicious than cabbage, and there is a faint aroma.
More than 10 cabbages can grow on a tree, and after the grown cabbage is cut down, new cabbage will grow on the tree, so the climate is not abnormal. It can grow all year round.
The yield of a single vegetable tree is generally 10-30 times higher than that of conventional cultivation methods.
For example, a tomato tree can hang more than 10,000 fruits in a row; The watermelons that grow on the watermelon tree are not big. There are only about two or three catties, but a single tree can produce more than 100 in a row.
The reason why these vegetable trees are so productive is due to the application of nutrient hydroponics and the effect of bioactive solution.
The most amazing thing about the botanical garden is that it is a new tree species cultivated by genetic improvement, and there are all kinds of strange trees, such as breadfruit trees, milk-producing trees, wine-making trees, diesel trees and glow-in-the-dark trees.
The bread tree, also known as the baobab tree, is extremely drought tolerant and widely distributed, and is an evergreen tree, generally more than 10 meters tall and up to 40 to 60 meters.
Bread trees have thick trunks and lush foliage, and they live for a long time, some of which can even live up to 5,000 years.
It bears fruit on its branches, trunks and roots, and the fruit varies in size, from a large football-like fruit to a citrus one, and can weigh up to 20 kilograms.
The fruiting period is also particularly long, with 9 months in a year and can be harvested 3 times.
Breadfruit is highly nutritious, with a lot of starch and a rich amount of vitamins A and B, as well as small amounts of protein and fat.
Ripe breadfruit is plucked from the tree and eaten raw, with juicy and slightly sour flesh, or mixed with water to make a refreshing drink.
Or cut into slices and bake on the fire until yellow, it can be eaten, this kind of baked breadfruit, with aroma, soft and delicious, sweet and sour, the flavor is similar to bread, so it is called "bread tree".
The fruit is dried and crushed into powder, which is very similar to flour, and then can be made into a variety of staple foods, which can be stored for a long time; It can also be used to make zuò jam and sake brewing.
In addition to the edible aspect, the bread tree is full of treasures.
Locals use the leaves to weave into beautiful and light hats, and the fresh leaves can also be used as vegetables to be eaten after cooking.
After processing from the bark, it can be made into rope, mats, baskets, paper, and long ago people used to weave coarse cloth to make clothes.
Bread trees can also be used to make canoes and build houses, and some locals even open the doors of hundred-year-old trees and move in directly.
In addition, the pollen of the bread tree can also be used to make zuò glue; The seeds can be squeezed for oil or fried; Fruits, leaves, and bark can all be used in medicine.
It has been said that a local man only needs to spend one hour planting 10 bread trees to fulfill his responsibility to the next generation, because usually one adult bread tree is enough for one person's food ration.
Of course, this is a joke, but after the genetic improvement of Taoyuan Group, the new type of breadfruit tree has more edible value and economic value.
The biggest advantage of the new breadfruit tree is that it does not choose the land, does not need to be fertilized, can be widely planted, the fruit is round, weighs two or three catties, and the taste after baking is sweeter and softer.
If people in poor areas could plant dozens of trees in every household, it would no longer be a dream to solve the problem of famine once and for all.
The milk-producing tree is based on a tree called "gallofra" in the Amazon forest, and if you cut the bark a little with a knife, a thick, white sap immediately flows, like fresh milk.
It is also chemically rich in nutrients like milk, containing not only protein and sugar, but also a small amount of fat, making it a superior beverage that can be compared to the best milk.
Each adult tree can flow out 3-6 kg of sap after one cut, and after three or four days, the sap will flow out again.
The brewing tree is based on a tree species called the wine tree in central Africa, and when the fruit is ripe, it contains about 25%-30% alcohol, and the juice is fragrant and can be drunk as a natural fruit wine.
If steamed, the juice will be richer and more mellow, and it can be bottled for storage.
There are many plants in the world that can produce oil, including trees, shrubs, vines, algae and grass plants, etc., some are fruits and seeds that produce oil, some are trunks that produce oil, and some are branches, leaves, fruits and other parts of the body can produce oil.
Some of the oils produced by these plants can be eaten, such as rapeseed, camellia, oil palm, olive, etc.; Some can be used as biofuels, such as oil nanza, jatropha and clover trees, etc., whose combustion value is no less than gasoline and diesel, and is a renewable energy source.
The diesel tree cultivated by Taoyuan Group is an arbor that can grow up to 30 meters tall and 1 meter thick.
Compared with those wild trees in nature that can produce oil, diesel trees have three major advantages, one is high oil yield, and stable, an hour can collect 5~10 kg of sap from each adult tree, its composition is close to diesel, and can be used as fuel in the engine without processing.
Second, the sap is collected by cutting the bark of the tree, which does not need to be drilled into the center of the tree to produce oil like other similar trees, which does very little damage to the tree and recovers faster.
The third is that the planting range is wide, and there are not too many requirements for planting technology.
The glow-in-the-dark tree can grow up to 7 meters tall, standing tall and upright, and the tree shape is beautiful.
The leaves are two fingers in size, and there are many white hairs growing on the back, and at night, they glow green, and from a distance, they look like a crescent moon in the sky.
When a breeze blows, the leaves sway in the wind, and the colors are dazzling and breathtaking.
The leaves of this tree emit light because of a special light-emitting substance in the plant - luciferin and luciferase. Luciferin oxidizes under the action of enzymes and at the same time releases energy, which is expressed in the form of light, which is the biological light we see.
Biolight is a kind of cold light, and like the microbial fluorescent light technology that Ye Quan handed over to his maternal uncle's house, biolight has a high luminous efficiency, with 95% of the energy converted into light, and the light color is soft and comfortable.
This kind of tree is specially cultivated by Taoyuan Group for roadside landscape trees, and at night, it can be used to illuminate the street and road, so it is also called "street lamp tree".
Every visitor who visits the Strange Botanical Gardens will feel like they are away from home when they walk out the door.
Before that, they could not have imagined that there were such wonderful plants in the world, and with these plants, it seems that humans no longer have to make wine, grind flour, raise cows, and dig for oil, just planting trees.
There are no wonders in the world, nature has prepared a qiē for human beings, and what Taoyuan Group has done is only to make some improvements in terms of yield and taste.
It's like how much rice can be produced in the wild? And what is the yield of rice varieties grown in today's society?
The two can never be compared.
The fruits and vegetables grown by human beings are so big and so sweet; The high yield of the various crops cultivated is not the result of natural evolution, but the result of artificial selection over thousands of years.
The biggest credit of Taoyuan Group, or the most amazing place, is to shorten this achievement, which takes decades or even hundreds of years to do, in one step, to a few years.
As a result, these tree species all have great economic value and promotion value.
The Strange Botanical Garden has opened a magical door, allowing human beings to see a green ecological sustainable development path, and optimistic people can't help but imagine that the future world is a green land in addition to the blue sea. (To be continued......)