The Sichuan Basin evergreen broadleaf forests occupy the fertile lowland Sichuan Basin of China, a broad depression ringed by mountains and karst uplands and traversed by the Yangtze River. The native subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest is dominated by oaks, laurels, and Schima (a tree in the tea family), with characteristic laurel-family genera including Machilus, Lindera, Litsea, Cinnamomum, and Phoebe. The basin has a humid subtropical climate marked by warm, hazy summers and chilly winters with persistent winter fog. Classified as critically endangered by the World Wide Fund for Nature, the forest has been largely cleared for agriculture over the past several thousand years and now survives mainly on surrounding mountains and protected temple grounds, with an especially well-preserved stand on Mount Emei; the range-restricted Emei Shan liocichla is the ecoregion's flagship bird. Notable native woody plants of horticultural interest include the dove tree, tree fern, and yew.

At a glance

About the temperate broadleaf & mixed forests biome

Four-season forests of deciduous hardwoods — oak, maple, beech — often mixed with conifers, shaped by warm summers and cold winters. Trees leaf out in spring and color in autumn; the generally fertile soils have made these forests heavily settled and farmed.

Catalog plants suited to this ecoregion

Computed from each plant's stated USDA zone range against this ecoregion's CHELSA-derived current zone range, with the CHELSA mid-century warming delta applied for the projection. Plants whose stated range falls outside both the current and projected zone end up dropped; the rest land in one of the three buckets below.

Collections for this ecoregion

Curated multi-plant collections whose members all fit this ecoregion's zone range — no won't-grow members smuggled in. Overall fit class shown per collection is the weakest link across its members.

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