Abstract:
A survey was conducted to compare structural characteristics of village roadside trees between Fujian and Zhejiang province, 14 villages of four counties (districts) were chosen, respectively. Results showed that all the arbors in two provinces belonged to 29 families, 47 genera and 57 species. shrubs belonged to 11 families, 15 genera and 16 species. The village roadside trees of Fujian were more abundant than those of Zhejiang. The ever-greening and native tree species were dominant, accounted for 69.7% and 68.2%. Small proportion of trees were planting cut-off and no managing cut-off in two provinces. The roadside trees indexes of diameter, height, crown breadth and height blow branch in Fujian province were larger than those in Zhejiang Province. Among the top ten tree species with high frequency in the in two provinces, the species of a Osmanthus fragrans and Cinnamomum camphora co-existed in two provinces.