Unfortunately for the pleiones, the cypress forests were also long Taiwan's main commercial forests, and after logging, foresters cleared whole stretches of land for replanting. The rich forest flora was swept away, and the Taiwan pleione, just like the false cypresses, became a rare species.
不幸的是，檜木林一直是台灣最主要的伐木區，伐木後，林務人員順帶清除林地以復舊造林，林內豐富的植物遭一掃而空，一葉蘭也隨同檜木成為稀有植物。