Recently, the flowers at the intersection of the street have bloomed well, and as long as you go out of the house, there are scenery everywhere. Everybody's full of eyes, right?
These days, begonias bloom particularly enthusiastically. The pinkish white flowers almost drown out the green leaves.
Although rhinitis, but also look at the flowers!
Hua Xie is also good-looking, and the wind blows, which is quite beautiful. Looking at the sub-rooms left on the branches, I made a wish early - I hoped that this year's begonia fruits would also be crowded with branches.
Hey.
Has anyone ever eaten begonia fruit?
The Begonia family is too messy
From the perspective of plant classification, the classification of begonia flowers is extremely confusing. A while ago, I finished recognizing the small yellow flowers of spring, and today I will learn to recognize begonias!
Common begonias in the genus Rosaceae are Begonia flowers (Malus spectabilis), Begonia sylvestris (Malus×micromalus), and Malus halliana. The big name of the begonia is Chaenomeles speciosa, which comes from the genus Papaya in the family Rosaceae.
I never thought that the sticker begonia was a wrinkled papaya
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To put it simply, the begonia family is chaotic, and everyone may be a hybrid of different parents, so they look very different, but they have the same name - they are all called begonias.
For example, some of the Begonias are hybridized from the flowers of the genus Vitex (a species of the genus Apple) and the Begonia flowers, while the other part of the Begonias are hybrids of Vitex and Catalpa (another species of the genus Apples) ... whereas
The Xifu begonias we are looking at today are likely to be the heavy-petaled begonias obtained by the hybridization of Xifu begonias and Hubei begonias in the north.
What a mess this is... So flora waved a big hand, for the time being, I called Xifu begonia!
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Listening to it like this, I feel that apples are also too "debauched and love freedom", right?
In fact, this is forced to make a living. Apple plants have the phenomenon of "self-incompatibility", that is, self-pollination does not produce fruit, and if you want to have the next generation, you must get pollen from genetically different plants. Natural hybridization is common in apples, and the Begonia family may have been born in one of the first natural hybrids.
Begonia fruit
Begonias are becoming more and more attractive to the eye
I don't know if you fainted, but I'm almost tied up in my head anyway. But it doesn't matter, let's first take a look at what the begonias we see every day are called.
The most common in the streets and alleys is the Xifu begonia, which blooms the most in April, the petals are pink on the outside and nearly white on the inside, so the flower buds are pink and white, and four to seven flowers are clustered at the top of the twigs, interlaced with green leaves. However, the flowering period of Xifu begonia is not long, about half a month, after a gust of wind and a shower of flower rain, the petals are embedded in the road and spread on the water, and you can only sigh that Shaohua is easy to pass away.
Xifu begonia powder is delicate and not kitschy, reminiscent of the girl's white and red cheeks after frolicking in the spring, probably the same spring, light and bright.
Begonia weeping begonias and Begonia Xifu have similar flowering periods, but they are not difficult to distinguish when planted together, because the peduncles and sepals of Begonia weeping begonias are purple, and the young leaves of young branches are purple-red, and there are differences in hue. "Weeping silk" means that the flower stem is weak, and the flowers droop when they are in full bloom, and there is a way to say that "spring workers leaves and silk, afraid of the sun and the wind do not sustain themselves." Xiao Jing did not do the makeup for whom, and the traces were still tearful. ”
Weeping begonias
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As for the sticky begonia, unlike the first two small trees, it is a bush. The flowers are also not shy pink, generally bright scarlet, with almost no peduncles, and blooming close to the branches. It is best to watch out for thorns on the branches when you see it on the side of the road, and it hurts to prick it.
Wrinkled papaya. The real papaya is not delicious, and the fruit shop is the papaya
There is also a papaya begonia in the "Four Pins of Begonias", which is closely related to the begonias, and is also a papaya genus of the Rosaceae family, which is called Chaenomeles cathayensis. The peduncle is short and thick to almost sessile, and the flowers are pink or pinkish white.
Although the hairy-leaf papaya does not feel good to hear, its fruit has been praised in people's mouths for thousands of years - it is the peach in "throw me a peach, repay it with Qiongyao".
Papaya (Papaya Begonia)
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In addition to the begonia flowers of the Eight Classics, I will also hear about some "begonias" with the title in life.
Most people who like to raise flowers and grass have been exposed to begonias, which have nothing to do with begonias. Begonias are of a wide variety, and the total number of horticultural varieties may exceed 10,000. Such a large family may be able to compete with one of them.
In addition, the yellow begonia hypericum, radish begonia cyclamen, and iron begonia tiger thorn plum all share the name of begonia.
How can begonia fruit be good?
Although the apple genus is not easy to produce, but every autumn, there are still many people who find the begonia fruit on the side of the road and enthusiastically ask, what is it? Can I eat it?
(Theoretically) can eat.
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Why do you still turn down, wait for me to tell you how to eat? Or are you afraid that something will go wrong after the theory is applied to practice?
Thanks to the chaos of the begonia family, these begonias of the apple genus have a common ancestor with the apple - the wild apples from Xinjiang from the Tianshan Mountains. The begonia fruits we see come from a variety and variety, with different shapes and sizes, and the colors are yellow and red.
So don't dwell on it, eat it.
Xinjiang wild apples crossed west with European wild apples to obtain the ancestors of today's cultivated apples; Xinjiang wild apples spread eastward to the Central Plains, and crossed with mountain thorns and Hubei begonias to obtain a wide variety of begonias. Image courtesy of wikipedia
If you are an old reader of the museum, you know that I am asking you to eat the begonia fruit bought in the market, not to go to the green belt - the fruit farmer grows and the begonia fruit that is fed by the tail gas must have a different flavor.
Begonia fruit looks so much like hawthorn, can you string sugar gourds? OK. Hawthorn, red fruit (mountain red), begonia fruit washed, removed stems, sun dried in the sun and wrapped in syrup, is the same practice.
Begonia fructose gourd, which also seems to be the tears of the times d §
Image from the web
Begonia fruit can not be eaten for a while, but also can be made into begonia jam, the method is as simple as other jams, begonia fruit washed and cut into pieces, add sugar to boil.
alas! In this season when the begonia flowers have just fallen, I have already planned in my heart how to eat begonia fruits (.jpg).
Delicious little fruit, birds also love
Written by | Lin Sui
Some of the images are from | Figureworm creative
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