Purple Flower Bluebell Small Archives
Chinese name: Purple Flower Bluebell
Aliases: purple hydrangea, safflower bluebell, pink bluebell
Latin name: Tabebuia impetiginosa (Mart.) Standl.
Family: Asteraceae
Distribution area: Native to Brazil and other South American countries and regions, it is also widely distributed among the Amazon rainforest and the Andes Mountains. It is widely cultivated in southern China.
Flowering period: December to March
Flower viewing location: North Ring Xiangmei North Pedestrian Bridge, Shenzhen Central Park C2 Area, Shenzhen Bay Park
Dashahe Ecological Corridor, Shenzhen Dapeng Nuclear Dragon Line
When it comes to the new "net red" flowers in recent years, the purple flower bluebell can be described as a momentary limelight. After New Year's Day, purple-flowered bluebells from all over Shenzhen are gradually in full bloom, making Pengcheng in winter more beautiful and colorful. From a distance, the branches are lined with pink-purple flower balls, like a piece of smoke; up close, the flower balls are composed of small flowers shaped like wind chimes, as if hearing the good sound of flowers blooming.
Image source: @Moxue Culture - Left Bank
Purple bluebell is a small deciduous tree with short-term deciduous leaves, reaching a height of 6-9 meters and a crown width of 4-6 meters. The canopy is open, the branches are sparse, the branches and leaves are sparse, and the bark is light gray and grayish white, which is relatively smooth and has medicinal value.
The fruit is long, with a stalk, about 30 cm long, and cracked. The seeds are flattened papery, light and thin, transparent and winged. Sex likes high temperatures, warm shelter from the wind overwintering.
Image source: @Born as Summer Flower No Chihiro
Why travel far to enjoy the flowers? Already in there. The shape characteristics of the flower clusters and the affinity of the pink purple color when the purple bluebell is in full bloom make it have good ornamental value. In recent years, Shenzhen has newly introduced this excellent flower-viewing tree, and selected it as the city's street tree, and has been planted on a large scale since 2020, forming a number of characteristic flower landscape forests.
Image source: Dapeng New District Construction and Public Works Department
Romantic purple is always intoxicating, although it is a sister flower of the same family, everyone is familiar with the yellow-flowered bluebell that blooms in March and April every year, and the purple-flowered bluebell is relatively unfamiliar. They differ in addition to their different colors. Bluebell is a conical inflorescence, apical, hermaphroditic, calyx tubular, corolla golden yellow, funnel-shaped, crumpled flower margin; purple flower bluebell is a corolla funnel-shaped, also like a wind chime, with a wrinkled flower rim. Moreover, the flowering period of purple flowers is twice as long as that of yellow flowers, and the flowering period of yellow flowers is about 10-15 days, and the purple flowers can be up to about 30 days.
In general, the purple bluebell can be seen from December to March. However, it should be noted that it is still a very "personality" flower, and the time of flowering is uneven, usually "you sing me on the stage". If you encounter a "unique" purple flower bluebell on the road, it can be said that it is a small luck, if you are more lucky to encounter a row of purple flower bluebells lined up in rows, flowers blooming, then don't miss it, hurry to the immersive punch card, the beautiful photo is absolutely stunning your circle of friends.
Image source: @Cats looking at flowers
The most wonderful thing is that after the purple flower bluebell blossoms, the flower color will also turn from dark to light, the style of the flowers, the flow of change, the enthusiasm is like cheek rouge, when it is cold, it is like the beautiful snow, the wind blows, the trees are full of posture, the fall is colorful, reflecting the warm winter sun, just like the beautiful landscape paintings of Pengcheng.
(Author: Reading Special Media Lab)