Qixi arrived, the cowherd weaver girl du Queqiao, this is the traditional Chinese sense of Valentine's Day, some people send flowers, some people send chocolate, some people directly get a marriage license.
A little different Tanabata
Some places where the elderly and children eat tangram fruits. But in some places in Guangdong, girls use tangram fruits to worship cowherd weavers, this kind of tangram fruit is not fried with flour, but the fruit of the apple tree, the fruit of the apple is a bit like the beautiful girl's Dan phoenix eye, so it is also called the phoenix fruit.
Tangram fruit, phoenix fruit, apple mother
In Tropical areas such as Yunnan, Hainan, China, the cocoa nuts on the cocoa tree are also ripe, and the cocoa fruit is the main raw material for making chocolate, and it is also planted in the large greenhouse of the general large urban botanical garden for popular science viewing.
cacao
Cocoa and Pingbo are both sycamore family plants, and the sacred plane tree in our culture is a family, both brothers and sisters of the sycamore family.
There are more than 1100 kinds of plants in the world, mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, most of the species in China are distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan and other places, and there are also individual species distributed in temperate areas of China.
Plane tree
Sycamores tend to be rich in plant fibers, close to the mallow family to which cotton belongs, so scientists tend to merge the plants of the family Sycamore and the family Mallowe into the mallow family. Friends, are you happy to make sycamore and cotton a family?
cotton
The most famous of the sycamore family is the plane tree, as early as the "Book of Poetry", our people praised her: "The phoenix is singing, yu pi gao gang." Sycamore is born, and the sun rises in the sky". During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu had a sycamore garden, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty planted sycamores in the "Shanglin Garden"; during the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms period, the former Qin king Jian Jian planted 100,000 plane trees in Afang City, waiting only for the phoenix to come; after the Tang and Song Dynasties, private gardens were also widely planted with plane trees, and the common people often said: Planting sycamore trees attracts phoenixes.
The plane tree grows luxuriantly, even the bark is green, and her trunk is straight, the branches are slightly rotational, and the end is a good-looking, jade tree wind, so there are many applications in the courtyard garden.
The bark of the main trunk of the sycamore is also green
The wood of the plane tree is uniform and is the superior material for making musical instruments. Legend has it that Cai Wenji's father, Cai Yong, found her from the sound of the sycamore wood bursting when it was burning, and took it out of the fire to make a "jiaowei qin" that flowed through the ages.
Scorched-tailed piano
The plane tree is also a famous Materia Medica, which is recorded in many ethnic classics such as Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica.
The good-looking plants of the Sycamore family are mainly concentrated in the two genera of Pingbo and Sycamore, and the Tangram fruit Apple also has a sister with relatively small leaves, called False Apple, also called Hydrangea, which is more common in the wild and urban gardens in South China, and is deeply loved for easy transplanting, lush growth, and beautiful flowers and fruits.
Fake Apple
In recent years, the Pearl River Delta Greater Bay Area has also introduced a maple leaf apple from Australia, which is full of trees like burning flames during the flowering season, so it is also called australian flame trees, which adds a lot of color to the city. Near the entrance to the Baiyun Mountain Trail in Guangzhou, there are also several Australian flame trees, and the next time you pass by, see if you can get to know her.
Australian Flame Tree
There is also a mysterious guest of the Sycamore family, the herb is called fat sea, fat sea also inherits the excellent genes of the sycamore family, grows tall and strong, as a street tree ornament is also very good, unfortunately the fat sea grows in Southeast Asia, China only Hainan Guangxi and other places have a small amount of cultivation, friends in other regions rare to see the fang.
Fat sea
In the tropical valley rainforest of China's beautiful Hainan Island, there is a kind of plant of the sycamore family, which is also enthusiastic like fire when it blooms, and the books were originally called beautiful sycamores, and now they are called beautiful fire trees. The beautiful fire tree is also a rare and endangered plant that should be well protected, at the same time, it is particularly beautiful, has local characteristics, and has great potential for garden applications.
Beautiful fire tree
Also in the ethnic minority areas of Hainan Island, there is also a kind of plane, called Hainan plane, her bark fiber is very rich, And the Li compatriots use her bark to spin.
Hainan sycamore
The beautiful tube skirt worn by the Li girls used to be made of Hainan plane bark. Huang Daobo learned the textile technology of the Li people of Hainan, and later spread to all parts of the country and even the world.
The tube skirt of the Li people
In the southern coastal mangrove forest, there is a rare and endangered plant called the silver leaf tree, which is one of the constituent tree species of the mangrove forest and is also a sibling of the Sycamore family. In the coastal mangroves of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Haikou, they can often be seen in their shadows.
The flower of the silver leaf tree
After talking so much, anxious friends may say that we also have plane trees over there, French plane trees, and the leaves are beautiful during the deciduous season. French plane tree is really good, in addition, there are British plane, American plane, etc., but the other plane tree is not this plane tree, French plane tree is a plane plant, and birch, oak, beech, etc. have a certain relationship, and the phoenix sycamore family of sycamore genetic distance is far. When the French plane tree species was introduced, clever introducers rubbed the hot spot of the plane tree.
French sycamore
Dear friends, sycamore family plants are simply introduced so much, the illustration is quoted from the network, everyone will look at it, what are the sycamore plants in your hometown, welcome to leave a message to exchange and share.