Textu | Cui Fangchun
More than ten days before the Spring Festival of the Chinese nation's traditional festival, the red hair brush of the tropical woody plant string of money willow is hanging from the branches. It swayed with the wind, bright and dazzling, delicate and unusual, sending people winter surprises and new spring blessings.
String of money willow, alias weeping red melaleuca, red bottle brush, myrtle family red melaleuca is an evergreen small tree. Native to Australia, Taiwan and South China are mostly distributed. It prefers both fertile and moist acidic soils and poor and arid soils, prefers warm and hot climates, withstands scorching heat, and is not tolerant of shade. Cold resistance and stress resistance is very strong, can grow in the environment of -7 degrees to 40 degrees, especially the lake pond creek bank cultivation, is a high-quality green ornamental plant.
Its bark is brown, thick and longitudinally cracked, the trunk is twisted and old, the small branches are densely clustered, the branches are soft and drooping, and the leaves are like willow leaves that do not wither all year round. Dense spike-like inflorescences with raw treetops, up to 11 cm long, shaped like a red bottle brush, so it is called red brush and bottle brush. A large number of slightly rounded wooden capsules, like copper coins strung together, have a profound and beautiful meaning. When the flowers bloom, the layers are stacked, the layers are clear, and thousands of stamens form a gorgeous bouquet, hidden in the green leaves, with a strange shape and a heroic posture, which is the wonder of the southern flowers and trees. Flower language is deep love.
String money willow has good medicinal value and economic value. Spicy taste, flat sex, return to the lung meridian, can dispel wind, phlegm, reduce swelling, the main treatment of colds, cough, eczema, rheumatism, bruises and other symptoms. It is a valuable spice plant whose leaf extract flavor can be used to blend cosmetics, soaps, daily detergents, and can also be used in the production of hygienic and pharmaceutical materials.
The string of money willows that bloom in early March entered their full bloom period ahead of schedule, revealing a good omen for the year. On the occasion of the Year of the Tiger, I wish all my friends and family a happy holiday, good health and good luck. I wish our great motherland tigers and tigers a mighty, prosperous and prosperous, a thousand miles a day!
About author:Cui Fangchun, a native of Qingzhou, Shandong, has been working in banks for 41 years and is a retired employee. He is a member of Shandong Provincial Prose Literature Association. He has published several poems and essays, and published a long biography "Memories of the Past". Qilu Evening News Qingwei signed the supplement.
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