The Lunar New Year of the Rooster is coming, and Chinese like to be lucky like to make a fuss about the zodiac. How many plants do you know about these "surname" chickens?
Cockscomb flowers
Cockscomb flower is a very common garden plant. Annual herbaceous plants, flowering in summer and autumn, the flowers are mostly red, chicken crown-shaped, so it is called cockscomb flower. Native to Africa, tropical America and India. Prefers full sunshine, humid heat, and is not resistant to frost. It has high medicinal value and can cure glaucoma, coughing up blood and so on.
Chicken claw maple
The chicken claw maple is palm-shaped, like a "chicken claw", and is highly recognizable. Autumn is the most ornamental season for chicken claw maple, the leaves gradually turn bright red, colorful as flowers, brilliant as Xia, is a valuable ornamental tree species in the garden. It is highly resistant to sulfur dioxide and soot.
Cockscomb thorn tung
The flowers of the cockscomb thorn tree are dark red and bright and dazzling. Deciduous shrub, suitable as a street tree, a vista tree. It is native to tropical regions of South America such as Brazil, and is cultivated in South China and Taiwan Province. Flowering can attract butterflies and birds.
Frangipani
Flowers in summer and the fragrance is elegant. After the leaves fall, the bare trunk bends naturally, and its shape is very beautiful. Suitable for garden planting. In Xishuangbanna and some southeast Asian countries, the frangipani is widely cultivated by Buddhist monasteries as one of the "five trees and six flowers", so it is also known as "temple tree" or "tower tree".
Chicken feet pear
Chicken claw pear is another name for citrus aurantium, the fruit is rich in sugar, can be eaten raw, wine, boiled sugar, folk often used to soak "jujube wine", can cure rheumatism.
Chicken intestine grass
Chicken intestine grass is a very humble ground cover plant, distributed throughout China from south to north. It is a plant of the genus Lithopod in the Asteraceae family, also known as coriander (sui). Don't look at it as inconspicuous, the medicinal value is still very high. Folk for the treatment of acute and chronic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, headache, whooping cough, chronic tracheitis, conjunctivitis, rheumatoid arthritis, malaria, wet sores, bruises and swelling pain, etc. It is reported that it has antibacterial, insecticidal, anti-allergic, anti-tumor and other effects.
tree
The chicken poop tree is another name for the coarse leaf tree, which is a deciduous tree. The Taiqing Palace in Laoshan, Shandong, has a thousand-year-old thick-leaved tree with a height of 15 meters and a chest diameter of 1.24 meters, which is locally called "Dragon Head Elm".