"Biology Around You" 207 [smile] Please enjoy ~ fragrant yellow flower evening primrose ~ look at the square composition ~ flower language: silent love • unruly heart • beauty after bathing ~ This film is 201

Biology Around Us 207

[Smile] Please enjoy ~ fragrant yellow flower evening primrose ~ look at the square composition ~ flower language: silent love • unruly heart • beauty after bathing ~ This film is April 2, 2018 (Year of the Dog, February, 17), Monday at 14:18, the spring equinox solar term, filmed in Guanyi Botanical Garden. [Breeze]

Botanical Traits of Evening Primrose

1, willow leaf family, evening primrose, biennial to perennial erect herb, only bloom at night, the flower is adjusted when the shell is gone, hence the name evening primrose, the height of the plant is about 60cm ~ 90cm, the whole grass is hairy.

2. Leaf: single leaf, alternate, leaf-lanceolate.

3. Flowers: amphoteric flowers, composed of spike-like inflorescences born at the top of stems and branches, corolla goose yellow, petals heart-shaped, can extract aromatic oil.

4. Fruit: capsule, cylindrical, seed can be squeezed for oil, edible and medicinal.

5. Dry roots into medicine, sweet taste, warm. Attributed to the liver, spleen, kidney meridian. It has the effect of dispelling rheumatism and strengthening muscles and bones.

6. Aliases: red calyx evening primrose, night incense, late primrose, mountain sesame, etc.