March 9, 1981, the fourth day of February (yau), a famous botanist Cai Xitao died in Kunming.


CAI Xi Tao (1911-1981), formerly known in the moment, the word Lieberthal, formerly known as Xuan Peng to the number line, in April 1911, Sunrise was born in Hulu, Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province town of Cai Zhaicun . A young man with his passion for literature, creative short story "Dandelion" by Lu Xun praised. Difficult in high school because of poverty, and then into North calm aquatic organisms surveys when trainees. 1932, starting from Sichuan Yibin foot into the Yunnan expedition along the Jinsha River, Yanjin to Zhaotong the Swan Street black Yi slave owners drink cattle blood alliance to successfully enter the Daliangshan. The field investigation three years, collecting more than 10,000 plant specimens, and found that the oil melon successful introduction. During the Anti-Japanese War, the North calm of Biology relocated to Kunming, renamed Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute of Yunnan Province. Successful introduction in 1938 the expensive tobacco Hongda, Honghuadajinyuan, bred in Yunnan One. Jianguo after, (lsjt.org), Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming workstation (later renamed the director of the Institute of Botany). In 1955, Zhou Enlai, (l $ j��.c��) Chen Yi-hand-station inspections to resolve issues such as funding and venue. Plant resources, was ordered to continue to look for two Hevea brasiliensis, 1955 Shoots grafted on seedling rubber seedlings were successfully developed into a large-scale rubber plantations found in Ruili, China's entry into the forefront of the world producing countries. 1956 joined the Chinese Communist Party. The created in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Institute of Tropical plants and tropical Botanical Garden, and soon after that ecological communities Research Station Damenglong 1959. In 1961, Meng Caroline Hill find Dracaena since the Tang dynasty, has been relying on imports of Medicine expensive drugs "dragon's blood" resources. In the same year the Chinese delegation to visit Guinea, (l $ j��.c��), Morocco, Ghana, Algeria. In August 1972, was ordered to organizations looking for the anticancer drugs Maytenus success. Lifelong study of plant resources and classification of plant resources, accumulated precious plant specimens and data. Plant resources, plant introduction and acclimatization, artificial plant communities have done a lot of pioneering work laid the foundation of artificial plants experimental community school, at home and abroad to become a famous botanist and plant resources scientist. Successive Plant Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan Branch, vice president, deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Tropical Botanical Institute president and party secretary. Elected Yunnan Province, the Fifth National People's Congress Standing Committee of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference members. 40 cow tragedy "
major works, the system of plant classification," Flora "," Plant Resource Science, "oil melon fruit drop causes", "Science & mdash decades ; Biology II. Translated as a "system of plant classification.