Table 2.

Most salient species freelisted by the interviewees

Latin name	Smith’s Salience Index
Pinus tabuliformis Carrière	35.5
Pinus armandii Franch.	27.9
Prunus stellipila Koehne	23.5
Betula albosinensis Burkill	18.5
Cornus kousa F.Buerger ex Hance	18.0
Meliosma dilleniifolia (Wall. ex Wight & Arn.) Walp.	17.0
Fraxinus mandshurica Rupr.	16.1
Tsuga chinensis (Franch.) Pritz.	13.6
Populus purdomii Rehder	11.8
Catalpa fargesii Bureau	11.5
Quercus aliena var. acutiserrata Maxim.	11.1
Morus australis Poir.	10.8
Castanea mollissima Blume	10.4
Toona sinensis (Juss.) M.Roem.	9.6
Tilia olivieri Szyszył. and T. paucicostata Maxim.	9.4
Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle	9.0
Populus cathayana Rehder	9.0
Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco	8.9
Phyllostachys sp.	8.5
Cornus controversa Hemsl.	7.7