The flower, the first of the three beauties of the benzoin family, was hailed as the most beautiful benzoin plant by the European botanical magazine Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
Native to the continent, due to indiscriminate logging, it is on the verge of extinction, and wild resources are currently very scarce. After the Opium War, it was introduced to Britain by British botanists, and now it has become a common flower-viewing street tree in Europe and the United States.
It is also a world-famous flower-viewing street tree.
Morphological characteristics:
It is a large deciduous tree of the Benzoin family, 6-20 m tall and 20 cm in diameter at the breast; twigs reddish-brown, pubescent when tender, glabrous when grown; Bark grey-brown with irregular striped cracks;
leaves papery, ovate-lanceolate, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 9.5–21 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, apex bluntly pointed or sharply pointed, base wedge-shaped or broadly wedge-shaped, margins finely serrated, densely covered with star-like pubescent hairs on both sides when tender, especially densely hairy below, glabrous except for leaf veins after growth, 7-9 lateral veins on each side, and midrib and reticulum veins are raised below;
The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruit period is from July to October.
Origin
Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian are native to the mainland. It is found in valleys and moist forests on mountain slopes at altitudes of 500-1500 meters.
Landscape value
It is an excellent flower-viewing street tree, like cherry blossoms, magnolia and peach blossoms, it blooms first, then grows leaves, and the flowers are pink, blooming in mid-to-early April every year, and the flowering period before and after is about 20-25 days.
After the cherry blossoms, it is a tall ornamental tree with a long lifespan (cherry blossoms only 20-25 years) and can be planted in rows, pairs, sheets, and groups.
Excellent flower-viewing pavement tree
At present, in landscaping, there are many trees for viewing flowers, such as the famous cherry blossoms, magnolias, peach blossoms, begonias, etc., but they are not street trees, and there are no good varieties as flower-viewing street trees.
Flowers are found in foreign countries, especially in Europe and the United States, and safflower horse chestnut and orchid trees are known as the three major flower-viewing street trees. At present, the application of these three varieties in the mainland is still very small, and the red horse chestnut is planted in a few nurseries in the mainland, and there is no actual engineering in application.
Disney pioneered the app
In 2016, the greening project of Shanghai Disneyland began to purchase green seedlings, in order to follow Disney's traditional style, it was necessary to purchase some European and American tree species. At ORG Haining Nursery, we have purchased varieties such as European birch, American purple tree, European small-leaved linden, Coleus pear pear, American elm, river birch, Japanese Shishoka, Renka tree, Japanese cedar bell tree, Yoshino Somei cherry and other varieties.
At the end of 2016, Shanghai Disneyland visited Haining ORG Nursery
In addition, our company also purchased some large trees with flowers from the Italian company Wanmuqi and the ORG nursery and JFS nursery in the United States, with a specification of 15CM diameter of 15CM, including 30 orchid trees, 30 orchid flowers, 30 American purple trees, 30 safflower horse chestnut trees, 40 Italian yuzi flowers, and 30 kanan trees.
Oregon Nursery
After the ships arrived at the port of Ningbo, they were quarantined for six months at a nursery designated by Haining, Zhejiang Province in accordance with the regulations of the plant quarantine department, and transported to Shanghai Disneyland in late October.
Shanghai Disneyland
Ji Ji flowers in Europe and the United States
After 1995, the nursery of Wanmuqi flowers in Europe and the United States has been widely bred and planted, generally larger nurseries, have special breeding and planting, especially the Italian Wanmuqi Company, according to statistics, Wanmuqi Company exports at least 9-100,000 basin diameter 5-6cm container seedlings every year, mainly exported to Europe and North America.
Lingji flowers promoted by European and American nurseries
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