Natural Habitat of White Forsythias in Chujeom-ri, Goesan

White forsythia is a rare plant that grows only in Korea and belongs to the same family as forsythia; like forsythia, its flowers bloom in early spring before the leaves appear. It is a small shrub, 1 to 1.5 m tall, with branch tips that droop toward the ground in a manner similar to forsythia. The Korean name is written using two different pairs of characters: 美 (beautiful) and 扇 (fan), referring to the tree's beauty and its fan-shaped fruit; or 尾 (tail) and 扇 (fan), referring to the fan-shaped fruit hanging like a tail from the branch tip. The Natural Habitat of White Forsythias in Chujeom-ri, Goesan is located at the foot of a small hill near farmland. The site has little soil and is scattered with large rocks and boulders; this is because white forsythia, having weak competitiveness against other trees, avoids competition by growing in barren places where other trees cannot survive. White forsythia is distributed throughout the site to an extent that could be called a colony, although the plants are not densely clustered. The Natural Habitat of White Forsythias in Chujeom-ri, Goesan is a place where this very rare species, found nowhere else in the world, grows; as a habitat of a rare species with taxonomic value, it is designated and protected as a Natural Monument.

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Where it is

Region

Goesan, Chungbuk

Designation

Natural Monument · 천연기념물