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Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

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At first sight, amazing

The nine-tailed fox is a mythical animal in ancient Chinese mythology and legend, symbolizing auspiciousness. From the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Classic of Mountains and Seas" Yun: "The mountain of qingqiu has beasts, its shape is like a fox and nine tails, and its sound is like a baby"

The most basic feature of its image is the "Nine Tails", and the legend is that Sehei is out of Ruiya.

But the nine-tailed fox was demonized at the latest in the early Northern Song Dynasty.

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon
Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

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Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

There is indeed a white fox living in the Arctic, with only one tail on it. Maybe there is no nine-tailed fox in the world, it is just a legend.

But people dream of seeing a nine-tailed fox...

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

There is a strange cactus in nature, it has nine long "tails" with white "fluff" on the top, which is very similar to the fox's tail.

The plant kingdom

"Nine-tailed Fox"

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

Photographed at the 10th Chongming Flower Expo

/ Hatsumi /

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

Photo: Hall 1, Shanghai Lulianghua Expo Park

Succulent nine-tailed fox

Immortals inhabit macaques

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

It is also called a monkey tail pillar because it is shaped like a monkey's hanging tail.

The genus Bulbophyllum in the cactaceae family is a perennial, long columnar hanging fleshy plant, which is now also known as the "nine-tailed fox" or "millennium fox demon".

When I was a child, the burrs were slightly yellowish, and when I grew up, the thorns would gradually turn pure white, which was very dreamy.

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon

Originally grown on the cliffs of the Bolivian plateau, it did not grow straight upwards like other cacti, but adopted a head-down overhanging lifestyle, which is an ideal hanging potted plant.

In infancy , the spines become goldener and harder , gradually turning white with age , and becoming softer. In addition to the strange plant type, its flowers are also very ornamental, and the beautiful red flowers hanging from the monkey tail bloom with a beautiful metallic luster, and the flowering period can run through the summer.

Happy light, spring maintenance is the best, watering to see dry and wet, one-time watering, good drainage of crisp pine soil is the best, summer for the growth period, winter should pay attention to indoors.

Propagation generally takes seeds and side buds into separate plants. When cutting lateral buds, make sure the wound heals completely to prevent it from rotting.

If life is dull, may you have a "thousand-year-old fox demon" to accompany you!

Meet the Millennium Fox Demon
Meet the Millennium Fox Demon