Neem flowers are white Neem fruit yellow
Yang Huilong
Because the word "bitter" gives the neem tree a bad character, it makes it less popular. In fact, it is not, the "bitterness" of the neem tree is the "bitterness" of the good medicine bitter mouth, and it is a tree species worthy of praise.
When I was young, I could always see the figure of neem trees in the corners of the fields, in front of and behind the houses, and on the hills of the grottoes. Neem is not like pear blossoms and peach blossoms, as soon as it comes to spring, it opens strangely, and it always opens its smile unhurriedly in the late spring, as if to continue the pace of spring. But if it is not opened, it is already open, and when it is opened, it is very enthusiastic, and it is somewhat open. It is full of purple petals of the tree, hanging on the tree one by one, like a wisteria flower. I wonder a lot about this, flowering herbs and shrubs are very common, but a tall flowering tree is difficult to see. The exceptions are tung oil, paulownia and neem. But the tung flower always gives people a sweet and sticky feeling, and there are nasty little bugs hidden in the flower buds, no matter how beautiful it blooms, it also makes people unhappy. Neem flowers, on the other hand, are much cleaner, with a slightly milky white color in the purple and blue, emitting a wisp of inexplicable melancholy and joy.
The neem flowers are gone, and bunches of jujube-like fruits hang from the branches like small bells. For these full of trees, I have more than once naively fantasized about how good it would be to be a full branch of green dates! However, it is not a green date after all, there are indeed too many similar things in this world, and it is common for us to be dazzled and unable to distinguish between true and false.
Neem always shows its most beautiful side in the twilight. For many years, I still remember that light rainy dusk, when I was still an unworldly child, standing under the curtain of my own house, and in the distance I saw a girl with a flat shoulder in the twilight walking under a tall neem tree. Her rosy face, two long black braids dragged behind her head. The red plaid clothes reflect the green trees at dusk, and the breeze blows as if the beauty and green trees are moving. The ground was full of neem flowers that had been blown down by the wind, and she stepped on the petals, and the figure disappeared into the depths of the twilight. The evening breeze is cool, and the air is filled with the confusing sweet smell of neem flowers. For this beautiful view, my heart beat for a long time, until the day she was married, I still felt like I was lost. In fact, she was my distant cousin, a woman ten years older than me.
Next to my home' own land, there are also two tall neem trees. How many evenings, I saw the figure of my mother working in the vegetable field, the tall neem tree, the shortness of my mother, this scene has never been erased in my memory.
In autumn, the neem tree slowly drops its leaves, and its bare branches stretch out into the lonely blue sky. Strings of neem fruits, which turn from green to yellow, swayed in the breeze like small bells, which was very annoying. Occasionally, you will see a bird's nest at the top of a treetop, like a sketch, which is a good memory of the neem tree as a child.
Neem trees are full of treasures. Branches and leaves can repel mosquitoes and purify the air, and flowers, fruits, leaves, and skins can be medicated. When I was a child, there was a lack of medicine in the countryside, people often drank raw water, ate raw and cold food, adults and children are prone to roundworms, then only need to take a piece of neem bark to boil water to take, the insect repellent effect is very obvious. When I was a child, I often had stomach pain, and whenever this happened, my mother would conclude that there were roundworms in my stomach, and my mother would peel off a piece of neem bark and boil water, let me drink it, and the roundworm would be killed, and my stomach would no longer hurt. Neem fruit is also said to be widely used and is one of the raw materials for the production of lubricants and soaps.
When they were young, most of the children in the countryside were poor, and picking up neem fruits for money became a source of pencils or homework books. In order not to form a scramble, the children also divided their own picking ranges, and never easily moved other people's "cheese". Neem fruit supply and marketing cooperatives and brigade supply and marketing stores are charged, 5 cents 1 catty, this price is already very attractive, to know that at that time 5 cents can buy a pencil and a small script, 10 pounds of neem fruit in exchange for money can eat a meal in the restaurant.
Later, in order to develop the fruit economy and make farmers rich, the hometown vigorously developed the navel orange industry. To this day, the neem tree species that can be seen everywhere are almost extinct, but she is still alive in my dreams.
Neem tree is poor tolerant, adaptable, suitable for growth, no matter the land is fat and thin, where it grows, it can always take root and blossom, and quickly grow into timber. According to scientific research. Neem trees are resistant to soot, sulfur dioxide and disease and pests, and their ability to absorb sulfur dioxide is four or five times that of general tree species, and it is a good anti-pollution greening tree species.
Since neem is so good, why can't the usual neem trees see neem? In addition to the lack of understanding of neem trees, neem trees are not without defects. Neem trees have rough and wrinkled wood layers, a relatively light and soft texture, easy to rot and hollow, and the branches are easy to break, and the wind resistance is poor. In addition, neem trees have strong self-reproduction ability, as if they do not need special cultivation, a neem fruit is arbitrarily discarded in a place with soil, it can produce seedlings and grow into a large tree. Because of this, in the use of gardens, it is easy to cause damage to neighboring tree species, so it is easy to be artificially rejected. Of course, since there are no perfect people, where is the perfect tree species?
Among the many poems describing neem flowers, the Northern Song Dynasty politician and writer Wang Anshi's "Light rain and light wind fall neem flowers, fine red as snow and sand." Bamboo House Jiangcun Road, when seeing Yicheng selling restaurants. "Most famous. There is also no shortage of modern and contemporary poets who praise neem trees, which are divided into neem and neem, but I still want to praise the neem trees in my hometown and the flowers and fruits they have blossomed.
(The author is a member of the Chinese Writers Association)
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