In the Fengxian Cao's courtyard, the 160-year-old Shanghai's oldest wax plum is "old and strong", with dense flowers; in the major parks, the wax plum has entered the full blooming period, and the aroma is fragrant; in the flower market, there are more citizens who buy New Year's eve flowers, and the wax plum has become the purchase object of many people, 30-80 yuan a stick, and the price has risen compared with last year. In the winter of Xiaoser, the small yellow wax plum flowers warm the season and warm the hearts of the people.
Wax plum at home: The 160-year-old wax plum in Shanghai is still full of flowers
In the Fengxian Cao's courtyard, there is a rare ancient wax plum, which has a history of more than 160 years, is the oldest wax plum in Shanghai, and is also a protected ancient tree, number 0879.
Under the generations of guardianship and meticulous care of the Cao family, this wax plum is "old and strong", and it blooms in dense yellow flowers every year, and this year is no exception. Just step into the Cao's courtyard, the faint wax plum fragrance will come to the nose, only to see the ancient wax plum dry like a dragon, the flower type is larger, the flower heart is pure yellow.
Cao Guojie introduced that the variety of this wax plum is suxin wax plum, which once had a tall and separate trunk, and was later urged by natural disasters, but the new branches drawn from the ancient wax plate are very prosperous, and the flowers can bloom from mid-December to February of the following year.
Gu Wax Plum is famous, and some people once wanted to buy it with heavy money, but they were rejected by the Cao family. In 1996, Fengxian South Bridge began the transformation of the old city, and this ancient wax plum was included in the relocation range. Under the joint appeal of the Cao family, deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the 100-square-meter area around the wax plum was finally designated as a protected area, and the original site of the ancient wax plum was protected.
In order to better take care of the ancient wax plum, Cao Guoyong, the second daughter of the Cao brothers and sisters, specially moved her family to the ancient tree, and the brothers and sisters often returned to their hometown to take care of the wax plum.
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Wax plums in the park: Century Park, Zhenru Park, etc. hold plum exhibitions
In the major parks in Shanghai, the wax plum has entered the blooming period, the plum viewing tour of Century Park has just begun, and Zhenru Park is also holding a wax plum exhibition. In the Shanghai Botanical Garden and Chenshan Botanical Garden, there are also relatively rich varieties of wax plums.
Century Park's plum viewing tour this year will last until March 20, with more than 500 wax plums and more than 4,000 plum blossoms competing to open. The park's plum garden covers an area of 100,000 square meters, arranged in the ancient wax plum area, tanmei area, Xiangxue plum trail exhibition area and other five major scenic spots and "three friends of the cold" small scenery, visitors can be in the plum sea, enjoy the plum blossoms, smell the plum fragrance, taste the plum rhyme, you can also taste the plum blossoms, wax plum bonsai, appreciate the essence of Chinese garden culture.
There are 50 large wax plum trees in the exhibition area, which are wild wax plum trees purchased by the park from the local people in Sichuan many years ago, through grafting varieties such as large flower plain heart, early red, and mouth, a wax plum tree has multiple varieties and colors, which is quite interesting.
Park greening experts introduced that the flowering of wax plums needs to be stimulated by low temperatures, due to the late winter in Shanghai, the flowering period of wax plums is delayed by about 10 days compared with previous years, while the flowering period of early plums is somewhat advanced. From now until the Spring Festival, tourists can see the beauty of the double plum spring. At present, wax plums are the best viewing period, only a few plum blossoms bloom, and it is expected that there will be a batch of early plums blooming during the Spring Festival.
According to experts from Chenshan Botanical Garden, there are early varieties of plum blossoms that have entered the initial flowering stage such as "Oriental Cinnabar", and the initial flowering period is nearly 10 days earlier than in previous years. It is estimated that from January 26 to February 2, the number of plum blossoms in Chenshan Botanical Garden will reach 60%, and from February 2 to February 22, the plum blossoms in the whole garden will enter the best viewing period.
Zhenru Park Wax Plum Exhibition exhibits more than 1,000 ground-grown wax plums and more than 70 pots of shaped wax plum bonsai of various varieties, between the white walls and dewa, the strange stone flowing water, the twisting and vigorous wax plum branches, the yellow petals as thin as cicada wings are small and cute.
Wax plums in the flower market: 30-80 yuan a stick, purchased from other places
Recently, the flower market has become lively again, and many citizens have come to buy New Year flowers. Wax plum and silver willow, North American holly, cyclamen orchid, junzi orchid, phalaenopsis orchid, big flower Huilan, daffodil, kumquat, five generations of the same house, rich and noble son and so on are all popular goods.
The wax plum in the flower market is a branch cut from a wax plum tree, with different thicknesses, different lengths, and different prices, basically 30-80 yuan a branch. Citizen Ms. Huang bought a wax plum, 50 yuan, "the aroma of wax plum is not so strong, is a faint dark fragrance, placed in the home is very plain, the flowering period is relatively long, can be put to the end of February." ”
Boss Cao, who has been running a flower shop in Lanling Flower City for 15 years, said that this year, the temperature in Shanghai and other surrounding areas is high, and the local wax plums are delayed, so this year's goods are purchased from the far north, and in previous years, he has purchased from Jiading Waigang Wax Plum Garden. The reporter found that the price of wax plums has risen this year, and the same thickness of wax plums sold for 20 yuan last year, and the opening price of 30 yuan this year.
Source: Thoughtful Shanghai