The small leaf rises "plant" awareness The third bullet is coming
The Mid-Autumn Festival holiday has just passed, are you happy and fulfilling?
If you say which plant has the deepest relationship with the Mid-Autumn Festival, most people will think of osmanthus flowers. Osmanthus blossoms, the full moon as the head, a total of beautiful scenery. People gathered together, admired the moon and smelled the laurel, tasted osmanthus wine, osmanthus cake and other foods, and enjoyed it. The Mid-Autumn Festival to enjoy the osmanthus flowers indicates people's pursuit and praise for a sweet life. In ancient times, people regarded osmanthus and its fruits as a symbol of sublime, beautiful and auspicious, and the term "Toad Palace Folding Gui" is synonymous with high school gold list, Shi Tu Dezhi and Flying Yellow Tengda. Poets also like osmanthus flowers, song dynasty female poet Li Qingzhao wrote in "Partridge Heaven • Osmanthus Flower" wrote: "Why should it be light blue and deep red, it is the first class among flowers", giving Osmanthus a high evaluation.
Osmanthus flower, in fact, does not refer to only a plant, it is actually the Customary Name of many trees in the genus Wood Rhinoceros in China, and the osmanthus flower we are most familiar with is the Wood Rhinoceros. The origin of the name "wood rhinoceros" has nothing to do with its flowers, but from the texture of the tree, which resembles a rhino horn. There are many varieties of wood rhinoceros, such as golden laurel, silver laurel, dangui, four seasons gui, etc., of which golden laurel has the strongest aroma and is a kind of osmanthus that we often eat; Dangui is strong in color, but the smell is lighter; The fragrance of four seasons cinnamon is insufficient, but it can bloom in all seasons, and it is also popular with green landscapes and sometimes as a family bonsai.
Dangui
Silver cinnamon
Osmanthus wood is hard and beautiful in texture, and can be used as a raw material for high-grade furniture and carving; The melanin extracted from the peel can develop sunscreen products, and the cyclosyne terpenides extracted from the seeds can be made into special drugs for repairing liver and lung damage; The roots of the wood rhinoceros can also treat stomach pain and toothache, and the effect is obvious; Leaves are also able to extract xylobis polysaccharides with a wide range of pharmacological effects, and leaves exert oils such as phenethyl alcohol which are important flavorings. Edible, versatile, and full of universal plants.
After today's introduction, do you have a deeper understanding of it?
Source: Shanghai Municipal Greening and Cityscape Publicity and Education Center
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