The People's Republic is one of 30,000 species of "higher plants". After Malaysia, China and Brazil in order to place 3 of the countries with the most plant species.Almost all plant families in the northern hemisphere are represented here. There are more than 106 Moosfamilien, 70 percent of previously counted Moosfamilien represent. More are in the People's Republic 11 families with 34 genera Nacktsamern to find that 40 percent of coniferous species, they represent 54 percent of families. 24 percent of the known genera of the world Bedecktsamer were determined. All seed plants together approximately 8000 timber plants, including some 2000 tree species. Originally only in China-based trees are, inter alia, the primeval mammoth-tree (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), the China-cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis), the Cathaya tree (C. argyrophylla), the gold larch, the Fujian cypress (Fokienia hodginsii), the pigeons and the Eucommia tree. In the People's Republic of China, there are over 2000 edible plant species and more than 3000 plant species, which can be used medically. The main medical use of ginseng plants are from the Changbai Mountains, the safflower from Tibet, the buck thorn from Ningxia and Notoginseng from Guizhou and Yunnan. Of the highly diverse ornamentals are the most popular as the "queen of flowers" Peonies designated with their colorful blooms. There is also a great wealth of species of rhododendron and 500 species of bamboo. It is worth noting in this connection that the 100 mostly smaller species in Japan from China were imported.