The red head has elephant flowers! The flowers and fruits on the Luan tree are hung in bunches like mini lanterns

Yangzi Evening News Network September 17 news (correspondent Xu Fugeng reporter Bo Yunfeng) September is the most beautiful season of the year for Luan trees, producing strings of red pods like fire, with crimson pods, the color of luan trees becomes plump, yellow flowers, red fruits, green leaves, lining the autumn sky unique blue. People stand under the tree, and the mood is particularly comfortable. On the 17th, in a campus on Xinglong Street in Nanjing, a number of luan trees bloomed with flowers and leaves, and the flowers and fruits on the trees were like mini lanterns, presenting a festive scene.

Luan tree and guiyuan, lychee belong to the same plant species, the tree shape is tall and beautiful, the flower type is peculiar, and the flowers are male and female. Every year for nine or twelve months, it is the most beautiful season for luan trees. However, the flowering period of luan trees is very short, and the flowers are also very small. Because the tree is tall and the position of the flower is also very high, growing at the top of the canopy, due to the phototropism of the plant, the flowers of the luan tree stretch towards the sky. The flowers of the Luan tree do not bloom in full bloom at once, but a thin flower pillar of golden yellow, stretching out layer by layer, and opening brilliantly on the branches in turn. If it is after rain, the flowers are more gorgeous. Look closely, the edge of the small yellow flower has a touch of golden red, lining the luan flower delicate and beautiful.

In ancient Chinese poetry, there are many good sentences depicting luan trees, among which the Song Dynasty poet He Zhu's "One of the Four Songs of The Four TianJia Words of Cui Ruohuo" depicts the characteristics of Luan trees exquisitely - "The drums welcome guests to return home drunk, and the luan sun shadow of the community tree group is oblique." Happy spring races this year, the head red has elephant flowers. The phrase "Tangled red has elephant raw flowers" is very appropriate, and the characteristics of stringing luan tree safflowers like the "tangled flowers" of luan trees are written beautifully.

Proofread by Li Haihui

Source: Purple Cow News