"Sacred trees," in most people's minds, are generally cypresses or red junipers; those on Alishan and Lalashan are red junipers. Yet Huang Chang-hung of the Taiwan Forestry Bureau once saw a stout camphor tree in the mountains with a diameter of 700 centimeters, making the "sacred tree" on Alishan look like a runt.
在一般人的印象中，只有紅檜、扁柏等樹種常會出「神木」，有名的阿里山神木、桃園巴陵的拉拉山神木群就都是紅檜；林務局玉里林管處造林課股長黃昌宏曾在山上見過直徑達七百公分的牛樟。