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Environment International 31 (2005) 755– 762 /locate/envint Hyperaccumulation of Pb, Zn and Cd in herbaceous grown on lead–zinc mining area in Yunnan, China b a,b,T b b b c Zu Yanqun , Li Yuan , Chen Jianjun , Chen Haiyan , Qin Li , Christian Schvartz aThe Center for Agricultural Biodiversity Research and Training of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, P.R. China bEco-environment Research Institute, College of Resources and Environment, Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming 650201, P.R. China cLaboratoire sols et Environment, Institut Superieur d’ Agriculture, Membre de I’ Universite Catholique de Lille 41, rue de port 59046 Lille Cedex, France Received 15 November 2004; accepted 10 February 2005 Available online 26 April 2005 Abstract A field survey of herbaceous growing on lead–zinc mining area in Yunnan, China were conducted to identify species accumulating exceptionally large concentrations of Pb, Zn and Cd in shoots. In total, 220 plant samples of 129 species of 50 families and 220 soil samples in which the plants were growing were collected. According to accumulation concentration in plant shoots and the concentration time levels compared to plants from non-polluted environments, 21 plant samples of 16 species were chosen as best-performing specimens, 11 plant samples of 10 species for Pb, 5 plant samples of 4 species for Zn and 5 plant samples of 5 species for Cd. So