In the article "Sunflowers, the Sad Gift of indians", Liu Su, a popular science writer at Chenshan Botanical Garden, made an analysis and summary of the plants named after the word "sunflower", and this article adopts its conclusion.
Yu Li, scientific name Cerasus japonica (Thunb.) Lois., Genus Rosaceae
Agaricus, scientific name Vitis bryoniifolia Bunge, genus viticulaceae
The Book of Verses says: June eclipses and silkworms, and in July cooks sunflowers and silkworms. Among them, "Yu" refers to Yu Li, a kind of cherry plant of the Rosaceae family, and the 薁 is some kind of wild grape, perhaps the silkworm; 菽 is the soybean (leaf), and the sunflower is the winter sunflower, which has no other meaning. It can be seen that the origin of winter sunflowers with our people is at least two thousand years old.
Winter sunflower, scientific name Malva crispa L., is a genus of mallows
Although the Chinese cabbage eventually replaced the status of the winter sunflower, but after love, it will not be forgotten, and the word "sunflower" is deeply burned in people's memories, and everything looks like aoi from then on. Therefore, there are quite a few plants named after sunflowers, which are roughly divided into four situations:
Marshmallow, scientific name Alcea rosea L., is a genus of marshmallows
Brick red cymbidium, scientific name Malvastrum lateritium, genus Cyperus
Mallow, scientific name Malva sinensis Cav., is a genus of mallows
First, the mallow family to which the winter sunflower belongs, there are many plants that have similarities in form with the winter sunflower, or flowers, or leaves, and these plants are also called so-and-so sunflowers. Common ones are mallows, marshmallows, hibiscus and so on.
Pu Kui, scientific name Livistona chinensis (Jacq.) R. Br., genus Bulbophyllum
Aoi Stern,Scientific name Chrisalidocarpus lutescens,Aoi Sao
Does anyone think of it as a bamboo?
Fishtail Aoi, scientific name Caryota ochlandra Hance, is a genus of fishtails
Second, the leaves of the winter sunflower are palm-shaped split, so some plants that originally could not fight with the eight rods of the winter sunflower are named because of the palm split leaf type, such as the palm family of purrel. But people's associations are progressive, both the sunflower first, and some other plants in the palm family that do not have palm cracks also carry the so-and-so flower.
Ochioi,Gakumyo Basella alba Linn.,Ochioi-ka ochioi genus
Third, as a vegetable, winter sunflower is characterized by smooth and tender, and this unique taste has left a deep impact on people, so that later when you encounter similar vegetables, you will think of winter sunflower. "Sex leaves are cold and smooth as sunflowers, so they get the name of sunflowers", and this is how the sunflower character for falling sunflowers (that is, fungus) comes from. The same goes for Dragon Flower.
It is impossible to judge what it is, maybe it is a thousand-petaled sunflower, maybe it is a variety of sunflowers
Fourth, as mentioned in the sunflower article, winter sunflowers are known for their phototropic leaves, and the sunflower flower disc also has this habit, hence the sunflower name. In fact, the leaves of many plants have phototropism, not only winter sunflowers, but because of the prominent status of winter sunflowers, they are selected as representatives.
In the long river of history, there are many "original intentions" that have been forgotten. Although the source of all kinds of sunflowers is winter sunflowers, nowadays, when people see the word sunflower, I am afraid that the first thing that comes to mind is sunflowers. For example, sea anemones are obviously animals rather than plants, so why are they named after aois? It has absolutely nothing to do with winter sunflowers, but only because they look like sunflowers.