红豆杉，冰川时期就有的高大常绿乔木，因为亿万年来自然的变迁，已凤毛麟角、鲜为人知。然而，被生物科学界誉为植物活化石的这一古老珍稀树种，却在上杭县步云乡崇头村的一个百亩原始森林里竟然参天耸立千余株，形成梅花山自然奇观之一。据行家介绍，在我国也只在广西发现 Yew, glaciers have tall evergreen trees, because hundreds of millions of years of natural changes, have been rare, little-known. However, the ancient and rare species, which is regarded as a living fossil of plants by the biological sciences, has stood in a hundred mu of virgin forest in Chongtou Village, Buyun Township, Shanghang County, and even more than a thousand stands, forming one of the natural wonders of Meihua Mountain. According to expert introduction, only found in Guangxi in China