Wax plum tea plum beauty plum... Are the flowers with the name "plum" all plum blossoms?

Original title: Wax Plum Tea Plum Beauty Plum ... Are the flowers with the name "plum" all plum blossoms?

Oriental Network reported on February 10: Around the spring of Lichun, the streets and alleys of Shencheng were filled with plum fragrance. In addition to plum blossoms, there are also wax plums, tea plums, beauty plums and other flowers blooming. However, these flowers with "plum" in their names are not really plum blossoms, so let's get to know them.

Wax plum

Wax plum is a deciduous shrub of the genus Wax plum in the family Wax Plum family, aliases: golden plum, wax plum, wax flower, yellow plum blossom. Because it is basically synchronized with the flowering period of plums (the wax plum blossom period is usually about January to February, and the plum blossom period is about February), and it is similar to the floral fragrance of plum blossoms, the color is very similar to the honey spleen, so it got its name.

Viewing points: Shanghai Botanical Garden, Chenshan Botanical Garden, Gongqing Forest Park, Guyi Garden, Century Park, Zuibai Pond, Zhenru Park, Fangta Park, etc

Tea plums

Tea plum is a camellia plant of the camellia family, named because its leaves resemble tea and flowers resemble plums. The plums are beautiful in shape and colorful, and have a long flowering period, which can bloom from the beginning of November to March of the following year. In the winter days of Xiaosu, tea plums not only decorate nature, but also provide a food source for insects such as Chinese bees and aphid-eating flies.

Viewing points: Shanghai Botanical Garden, Gongqing Forest Park, Daning Park, etc

Beauty Plum

Plum plum is a plum plant in the family Rosaceae. Every March, the beauty plum blooms in the branches, many friends think that the beauty plum is a variety of plum blossoms, in fact, it is not like this, although the beauty plum has a "plum" word, but it is a horticultural hybrid made of heavy petal palace pink plum and red leaf plum hybrid.

The natural flowering period of beauty plum is from the end of February to mid-to-late March, which can be configured in front of the house, stone steps, roadsides, and can also be used for road greening.

Viewing points: Shanghai Botanical Garden, Binjiang Forest Park, Guyi Garden, Drunken White Pond, Blossom Sea Ecological Park, etc

Bougainvillea

Bougainvillea belongs to the purple jasmine family leaf flower genus, because its bracts resemble gorgeous petals, so the name "leaf flower", as well as rhododendron, small leaf bougainvillea, triangle flowers and other other names, triangle plum blossoms have a long period, bright color, high ornamental value, by the world's horticultural workers and flower lovers love.

Silver hazel

Silver witch hazel is a witch hazel family, endemic to the mainland. Its bark is often patchy and peeling, flowering in early spring, first flowering and then leaves, and the flower structure is simple, without petals. Its wood material is excellent, the tree type, canopy, leaf shape, and autumn color leaves are of high ornamental value, which can make high-quality bonsai; the leaves can also extract tannins.

Viewing points: Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai Botanical Garden, etc

(Author: Bai Kelin, Source: Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Greening and Appearance)

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