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March 29, 2010

Fokienia tree seedling.

A Fokienia seedling growing at its southernmost limits in the dense forest of Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, Vietnam. Fokienia, known locally as Po Mu, can attain ages exceeding 1,000 years and have a natural range from southern Vietnam to southern China, and westward into the mountains of Laos.

Credit: Brendan M. Buckley, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University


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