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Cool Temperate Mixed
Broadleaved - Korean Pine Forests
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coast
Eastern edge of Eurasia mainland at latitude 43 degree N. The area of broadleaf-Korean pine forests.

upper ussuri
Fall in the upper Ussuri basin. Broadleaf forests dominated by Quercus mongolica, Tilia amurensis, Tilia mandshurica, Fraxinus mandshurica etc.

mixed forests
Real mixture of broadleaved and conifers in the southern Sikhote-Alin

actinidia arguta
Big vines of Actinidia arguta is one of the common features of mixed forests

korean pine
Korean pine, a king of Far Eastern mixed forests, starts many food chains in the temperate bioms

quercus mongolica
Quercus mongolica

paeonia obovata
Paeonia obovata is characteristic species of mesic broadleaf-Korean pine stands

panax ginseng
Ussurian taiga is the last place with wild populations of Panax ginseng, legendary medical herb of native Far Eastern tribes

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