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Cool Temperate Mixed Broadleaved - Korean Pine Forests |
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Eastern edge of Eurasia mainland at latitude 43 degree N. The area of broadleaf-Korean pine forests. Fall in the upper Ussuri basin. Broadleaf forests dominated by Quercus mongolica, Tilia amurensis, Tilia mandshurica, Fraxinus mandshurica etc. Real mixture of broadleaved and conifers in the southern Sikhote-Alin Big vines of Actinidia arguta is one of the common features of mixed forests |
Korean pine, a king of Far Eastern mixed forests, starts many food chains in the temperate bioms Quercus mongolica Paeonia obovata is characteristic species of mesic broadleaf-Korean pine stands Ussurian taiga is the last place with wild populations of Panax ginseng, legendary medical herb of native Far Eastern tribes |
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