Interestingly, "In all the world, only in southwestern Chinese provinces such as Sichuan are there forests similar to Taiwan's hemlock forests in appearance, structure, and evolution," says National Taiwan University botany professor Kuo Chen-meng. In China, pandas live in this type of forest.
比較特別的是，「鐵杉在全世界只有中國大陸西南的四川等省份，才有外形、結構、演化都與台灣鐵杉林類似的森林，」台大植物系教授郭城孟表示，貓熊就是棲息在這樣的森林中。