By April 1909, the Japanese had begun large-scale logging of Mt. Ali's false cypress trees. Many Japanese were also attracted by the rich plant life of the area's forests, and it was then that the Taiwan pleione was first recorded and named.
一九○九年四月天，日人已在阿里山林場大肆砍伐檜木，林場豐富的植物吸引來許多日籍人士，台灣一葉蘭就在阿里山首度被紀錄、發表。