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The advancement of semantic segmentation models significantly enhances the utilization of point cloud data, offering innovative technical support for modern horticulture in nursery environments, particularly in the area of plant cultivation. Semantic segmentation results aid in obtaining tree components, like canopies and trunks, and detailed data on tree growth environments. However, obtaining precise semantic segmentation results from large-scale areas can be challenging due to the vast number of points involved. Therefore, this paper introduces an improved model aimed at achieving superior performance for large-scale points. The model incorporates direction angles between points to improve local feature extraction and ensure rotational invariance. It also uses geometric and relative distance information for better adjustment of different neighboring point features. An external attention module extracts global spatial features, and an upsampling feature adjustment strategy integrates features from the encoder and decoder. A specialized dataset was created from real nursery environments for experiments. Results show that the improved model surpasses several point-based models, achieving a Mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 87.18%. 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