Yes, Chinese people like trees. A dislike for trees and other parts of natureis not determined by a person's race.
As a Chinese, there is no special significance attached to palm trees. (As far as I know)
Some look very much like the word they represent. Like Mountain and Tree are really just small pictures of mountains and trees!
Chinese banyan trees.
They are Chinese Grapefruits
Melia azedarach, also known as the Pride of India or the Chinaberry. It has amazing purple flowers, and like other Chinese trees, its fall blossom is a real spectacle of colors. This Chinese tree is very common ornamental tree in the south of the US. Candles and vegetable oil can be produced from several Chinese plants. found more information about it and other trees such as the Chinese tallow or the parasol at http://chinesetrees.blogspot.com/2009/06/chinaberry-tree-joy-of-colors-under.html
Diospyros kaki, the Chinese persimmon is deciduous. Diospyros virgineana the North American persimmon is deciduous. None of the persimmons are conifers.
They wrote on a type of paper they made from trees, just like we do today but there paper was different and they usually roled it up into scrolls
palm and Chinese elm
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Trees for oxygen, and Rivers for a source of water.
the trees that wasps like are maple trees and oak trees
The ancientChineseempress who developed the first paper from the bark of mulberry trees is