Golden silk hanging butterfly, scientific name Shaanxi Wei spear. Alias golden thread hanging butterfly, commonly known as the cash cow. Deciduous tree, 2 m tall. The twigs are greyish brown, cylindrical, smooth, wingless, and slightly droopy. It prefers light, is slightly shade-tolerant, drought-tolerant, and also resistant to water and moisture; it originates from the plant gene bank of the Qinling Mountains in Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, and has a small amount of wild distribution in southern Gansu, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou and other places.
A vine shrub that is several meters tall and has slightly grayish-red branches. The leaves are thin papery when flowering, papery or slightly thicker at fruit, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, 4–7 cm long and 1.5–2 cm wide, sharply pointed or short tapering at the apex, with ciliary teeth at the edges, broadly wedge-shaped at the base; the petiole is thin, 3–6 mm long. The inflorescence grows slender and delicate, most of them grow at the top of the twigs, forming a multi-flowered shape, each umbrella inflorescence has a thin and long stem, 4-6 cm long, there are 5 branches at the tip of the peduncle, a central branch is a flower, about 2 cm long, a pair of branches inside and outside up to 4 cm, and one or three small umbrellas at the top;
The peduncle is 1.5-2 cm long, the outermost pair of branches is generally only half as long as the inner branch, and the small peduncle of the umbrella is also slightly shorter; the flowers are 4, yellow-green; the petals are often slightly reddish, about 7 mm in diameter. The capsules are square or oblate round, about 1 cm in diameter, 4 wings are long, rectangular, the base is nearly the same height as the apex, or slightly narrower, the wings are shorter; only 1 seed per chamber matures, the seeds are black or brown, all surrounded by orange false seed coat.
Flower language: butterflies flying in the wind...
The garden can be used as a courtyard ornamental tree species, isolated planting or making stump bonsai, which has high ornamental value.
Propagation methods
1 Sowing
The fruits are harvested when ripe in autumn, and the seeds are collected after the skin is cracked in the sun, and dried and stored. In January of the following year, the seeds were soaked in warm water at 30 °C for 24 hours, and then stored in the shade of wet sand. In mid-March, move to the leeward sun and maintain a temperature of 20-25 ° C to germinate, and sow seeds after the radicle appears. Strip sowing, row spacing 35cm, plant spacing 3-5cm, cover thickness 2-3cm, sowing amount l0kg/mu.
2 Grafting
Silk cotton wood can be used as rootstock, and can be grafted when the rootstock is budding in mid-to-late March. The use of splitting and cutting methods is higher than grafting to cultivate bonsai, which has high ornamental value.
Cultivation techniques:
1 potted earth flower vessel to choose
Gold thread hanging butterfly on the soil requirements are not strict, if it is ground planting, directly use the garden soil, if potted, the garden soil will be easy to compact, affecting plant growth, so we can choose to use saprophyll soil, coconut bran, perlite in accordance with the 1:1:1 ratio of preparation and planting; because the gold thread hanging butterfly growth is very tall, so you can choose a slightly larger pot.
2 Light temperature control
The golden thread hanging butterfly is very fond of light, but it is also slightly shade-tolerant, but the flower idiot still recommends that everyone, whether planted in the courtyard or in the indoor maintenance, it is best to choose the sun, if the light is too little, the color of the seed clip will be dim; the gold thread hanging butterfly is a particularly hardy variety, and the winter can be safely wintered in the environment of about minus 30 degrees, so the small partners in the north who have courtyards can plant a tree, but the first year of planting, it is necessary to do appropriate and appropriate cold treatment.
3 Moisture fertilizer supply
Golden thread hanging butterfly is dry and slightly resistant to moisture, if the ground planting, as long as it is not a continuous dry weather, do not need to water frequently, if potted, it is best to keep the potting soil slightly tidal; the golden thread hanging butterfly is more resistant to barrenness, if the ground planting, in the growth season and dormancy period before each apply a nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium compound fertilizer can meet its growth, if the potted plant, because the potting soil is limited, so it takes about 2-3 months to apply a compound fertilizer.
4 Day-to-day management matters
Golden thread hanging butterfly is a relatively easy to raise green plants, usually basically do not need too much care can be raised, but in the autumn and winter, we need to prune it, pruning will be too long branches truncated, will be too dense, sick and weak branches can be pruned, if you are interested, you can also make shapes for it, and then as a bonsai culture.
Sentence describing a flying butterfly:
1, we walked into a greenhouse, oh my God! Butterflies fluttering in the air, their wings flashing in the air, like a woman showing people her beauty! These butterflies are colorful, and the patterns on their wings are intertwined, that is, they are bright and dim, both noble and dignified, showing majesty and beauty!
2. Wow! It's the "Goddess of Light"! I looked at the butterfly with interest, ah! It's so pretty! The azure wings shone with a purple-blue light, and only the name "Goddess of Light" deserved it! We came to the "Bean Lady" again. Hey? damselfly? It seems to be the name of an ancient beauty! How could it be in the exhibition hall? Roar, it turned out to be a dragonfly-like insect, its four wings were white and red, very beautiful! There is also the mathematician "number butterfly" among butterflies! Heck, it has an "88" on each of its wings, so funny! The wide variety of butterfly specimens is dizzying.
3, it rests on my desk, constantly flapping its wings, like that beautiful girl swinging her light long sleeves, and like a small snowflake that brings warmth in the winter. The white and immaculate wings and elegant and gentle posture can't help but make people envy its beauty.
4, dead leaf butterfly like dead leaves, so called dead leaf butterfly. I also like dead leaf butterflies, because when there are enemies, dead leaf butterflies hide in the dead leaf pile and pretend to be dead leaves.
5. Today, when I was walking by the flower beds in the big park, I saw many very beautiful butterflies. Some butterflies have tender green wings on the back, which stop at the edge of the flower bed like a leafy green grass; the front of the wings is golden yellow, and there are some patterns on them, which fly like golden flowers. There are also some white butterflies with black spots, flapping their wings and flying up and down, like cute little white flowers. One moment they fluttered in the air, and the next they landed in the flowers, as if butterflies had become flowers dotted the flower beds, and like flowers had grown wings and flew in the air.
6, a few small butterflies fly sleepy, landing on the apricot blossom tree to rest, like a kite hanging on the treetops is very beautiful. This lively and cute butterfly adds a lot of color to spring.
7, into the "butterfly paradise", full of butterflies. Red, white, black, yellow... I was dazzled and overwhelmed! Suddenly, a flower butterfly landed on a small flower in front of me, and I counted carefully, and there were seven colors on a small piece of wing: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, very beautiful! I call it the "Rainbow Butterfly."
8, a pair of colorful small wings, a pair of bright small eyes and a pair of curved tentacles, constitute a beautiful "little princess" - small butterfly.
9, the little butterfly is very cute, it has a pair of flowing wings, is chocolate and white. It was big, and my mother told me that the two horns on its forehead were called tentacles. Its antennae are thin, and there is a small dot at the top. Its antennae resemble the antenna on a television set, its eyes are the size of pinholes, its body is white and oval, and as soon as it grabs its wings, its legs flutter up and down, left and right, trying to run. Because it longs for freedom, its mouth is pointed, like the head of a small airplane, its nose is also the size of a pinhole, its back has black lines, its head is dark, we tie the butterfly's body with white thread, and tie the thread to a small stick, and when the stick is lifted, its wings flap like a little bird, and it may be homesick.
10, my favorite is the flash butterfly, there is a kind of called the king flash butterfly, it is beautiful, the wings of the king flash butterfly can emit a sparkling, blue light. yes! I've never seen a glowing butterfly!
11, I plucked another flower, another butterfly flew out, it is a beautiful color butterfly, exactly the same as the painting in the book: the upper end of the wings is yellow, the center is orange and pink, and there are five or six white dots at the lower end, which is very beautiful and beautiful.
12, I used a bamboo pole to pluck a large piece of flowers, only to see butterflies of various colors fly up into the sky and dance. There are red, sky blue, snow white, bright pink, emerald green, orange red, striped, pale yellow... There are all kinds of colors, it is really diverse, unparalleled, and I am overwhelmed. Many butterflies dance and play in the air, how beautiful! It was the first time I saw so many butterflies, and we danced with the fragrant floral fragrance.
13, in the sun, some butterflies dance on the flowers; some butterflies are playing with each other and chasing me; and some butterflies are picking delicious pollen on colorful flowers.
14, the color and shape of the king glitter butterfly are very good, but not like the deformed butterfly, a look at the word "deformity", you must know that it is not good-looking, the deformed butterfly is indeed not good-looking, its four wings are large, a small, a circle, a square, the color is also yellow.
15, pure white butterfly, you are the sentimental, compassionate Daiyu. You are the snow-white cute little jade rabbit in Chang'e's hand. You are the butterfly of the mountain and the Yingtai, you are the corner of the gauze skirt, the romantic dream...
16, a little better than the deformed butterfly is the yin and yang butterfly, its left side is silver, the right side is blue, so it is called yin and yang butterfly.
17, one minute, two minutes, five minutes... Ten minutes passed, and I felt my hands tickle, and I thought it must have woken up. I spread my hands, and it flew slowly, one in my face and one around me, as if to thank me. I watched happily as the butterflies danced on the grass, admired the butterfly's graceful dance, and ran around the grass with its flight path, so I spent a pleasant afternoon with it.
18 Once, I saw an old butterfly, only to see his tentacles bend outward like two filaments, and six small red feet growing on the sides of the furry body, lined up, stretching and shrinking, like a newborn baby stomping on its hands and feet when crying.