Mention the plant "Bauhinia", and what comes to people's minds is generally the shape of its leaves. The leaves of the sheepshoe nail are generally shaped like "hooves", which is one of the largest and most intuitive features of the genus We have identified, such as the familiar white-flowered sheep's hooves, the Hong Kong flower bauhinia and the monolithic sheepshoe nails. Whether it is trees, shrubs or vines, they are all inseparable from their origins, and they all have the "hoof" shape of this family.
However, in 2013, a kind of sheepshoe nail imported from Thailand by the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences "jumped out" of our "common sense" about the characteristics of the sheepshoe nail - because if you look at it only from the leaves, it seems to have nothing to do with the sheepshoe nail. This sheepshoe nail is called "Bauhinia strychnifolia Craib", the leaves are lanceolate, fully margined, thin leathery, do not have "hoof" shaped leaves, it is a woody vine, small branches cylindrical, young branches, inflorescence is covered with short soft hairs, tendrils paraphyletic, total inflorescence, flower red.
Maqian leaf sheepshoe nail is native to Thailand, suitable for garden trellis, fence arrangement, is a very beautiful garden vine, in the garden worth promoting, the use. At present, the horse money leaf sheepshoe nails are colonized in the Vine Garden of the Banna Botanical Garden, at this time, it is in full bloom, a bunch of red inflorescences and green leaves are hanging on the flower trellis, the inflorescence is 50-80 cm long, and the longest is more than 90 cm, which is very beautiful.
Strychnine leaf sheepshoe nails
