It has a spherical crown, beautiful branches and leaves, and a clear posture;
It is a unique and high-quality flower in China, which can be cultivated for flower or leaf viewing;
It is an important economic tree species, and its flowers, bark, branches and roots have high economic value.
It is known as the Chinese Love Tree;
It has many aliases: spring flower, golden waist bag, knotted flower, dream winter flower, happy flower, love flower, yellow Ruixiang......
It's Yukami.
It was purely accidental to notice this plant, which bloomed towards the end of winter.
Then, I was attracted by its beautiful meaning.
Then, I started searching the Internet for it.
Then, it fell into its "pit".
Therefore, even though it is not the flowering period of the incense, I still want to record the love for the incense.
After all, in this early winter season when a hundred flowers have been lost and thousands of trees are withered, it is not easy to meet a flower bloom and a bloom.
Moreover, it seems that it is not easy to live in the city of Lingnan for a long time to see the incense in life......
Defying the cold, the incense that blooms proudly has a large golden flower bulb that is particularly conspicuous.
The rich and sweet aroma, combined with the huge golden head-shaped flower balls, is even more amusing bees and butterflies, and they do their best to collect honey and pollinate for the incense.
If you get close to the open fragrant flowers, you will find,
This flower bulb is made up of dense clusters of small flowers, each of which is covered with white filamentous hairs on the back and smooth yellow on the inside, with four-petaled lobes.
Looking closely at these small flowers, the yellow lobes are not our usual petals, but calyxes, and the real petals have long since degenerated.
The golden flowers, the rich fragrance, and the incense that blooms in the cold have been loved by people, and the beautiful meaning it is given makes the incense highly sought after by everyone.
The branches of the incense are very soft and easy to tie into knots, and many people in love believe that if they want to get a long time of sweet love and happiness, they can only tie two knots in the same direction on the branches of the incense, and this wish can be realized.
For this reason, it is known as the love tree of China.
It's really romantic......
Yuuka also has a name: Dream Tree.
Before the flower opens, all the buds hang low, as if in a dream, and people call it the "dream tree" according to this situation.
There is also a saying that
Folklore has it that when you wake up from a dream in the morning, tying a knot on the fragrant flower tree can be a surprise, if you have a sweet dream at night, the morning knot can make your dream come true, and if you have a nightmare at night, the morning knot can help you get rid of bad luck and make you smooth sailing.
Therefore, the incense is called the "dream tree", and its flowers naturally become "dream flowers".
In addition to these beautiful meanings, the incense also has an interesting feature: the incense branches once a year, and each branch branches into three branches, which form a three-pronged shape, from which the name of the three-pronged tree comes from.
Note: Some of the text is quoted from online materials
【Plant Encyclopedia】Knotted incense, also known as knotted flowers, knotted trees, happy flowers, rock Zelan, three-bark, three-pronged tree, Menghua, home incense, mountain cotton bark, snowflake skin, dream flower, snow blossom, Huang Ruixiang, etc. It is a plant of the family Ruixiang, the genus Incense. Deciduous shrub, about 0.7-1.5 m high.
It is found in China, Japan, Myanmar (Kachin State, Sagaing), Georgia and South Korea in the southeastern United States, and in Henan, Shaanxi and other provinces and regions south of the Yangtze River basin in China.
There are only 5 species in the genus, mainly native to Asia, of which there are 4 species in China, in addition to the common incense, there are also white incense, Xichou incense and Yunnan incense.
Incense has a unique effect on protecting the environment and inhibiting termites. (Encyclopedia integrated from the Internet)
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