Its Whole Body is Treasure - Chinese Happy Tree

（国家二级重点保护植物）

(First-Grade State Protection Plant)

喜树（拉丁学名：Camptotheca acuminata.），别名旱莲、水栗、水桐树、天梓树、旱莲子、千丈树、野芭蕉、水漠子，是蓝果树科、喜树属植物。喜树是中国所特有的一种高大落叶乔木，是一种速生丰产的优良树种。落叶乔木，高达20余米。树皮灰色或浅灰色，纵裂成浅沟状。小枝圆柱形，平展，当年生枝紫绿色，有灰色微柔毛，多年生枝淡褐色或浅灰色，无毛，有很稀疏的圆形或卵形皮孔。喜光，不耐严寒干燥。深根性，萌芽率强。较耐水湿，在酸性、中性、微碱性土壤均能生长，在石灰岩风化土及冲积土生长良好。其果实、根、树皮、树枝、叶均可入药。

Chinese Happy Tree (Scientific Latin Name: Camptotheca acuminata.) , also known as dry lotus, and water chestnut, etc, belongs tothe genus Camptotheca, the family Nyssaceae. As a tall deciduous tree originally from China, it is an excellent deciduoustree species with rapid growth and high yield, up to 20 meters high. Gray or pale gray barks longitudinally split into shallow furrows. Small branchlets are cylindrical, open and flat; Current shoots purplish green, gray puberulent, perennial branches are pale brown or pale gray, hairless, with very sparse round or ovoid lenticels. Like lights, not resistant to cold and dry. Deep root, powerful germination rate. Resistant to moisture and water. It can growin acidic, neutral and slightly alkaline soil and grows well in limestone weathered soil and alluvial soil.Its fruits, roots, barks, branches, and leaves can be used as medicine.