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Summer Plants | the story of flowers and plants south of the West Lake

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Walk around the scenic spots on the south side of the West Lake Scenic Area, Yunqi Bamboo Trail, Tiger Run, White Pagoda... The delicate or flowing flowers in the parkland are showing a summer gesture and bringing a unique viewing interest. On August 17th, follow the editor to visit the stories of flowers and plants in the summer.

Summer Plants | the story of flowers and plants south of the West Lake

Wild fun overflowing with clouds

In the middle of summer, golden thread grass blooms into pieces, forming a unique landscape in Yunqi Bamboo Trail Park. Goldenrod is a plant of the genus Goldenrod in the family Tateshina, its most intuitive feature is that the slender flower spikes are full of small flowers that look like red stars, looking like red lines rising from the distance, and the lush bamboo forest also has a little more summer heat. Also blooming into spikes are the orchids, lilac buds blooming, a graceful posture, adding new clothes to the perennial emerald greenery.

Petite pocket flowers tend to have a wild interest. Strolling through the park, the duck plant and the nine-headed lion grass also bloomed. The petals of the nine-headed liongrass are pale pink or lilac, and each inflorescence has two total bracts, one large and one small. In "Journey to the West", Taiyi saved the mount of the suffering Tianzun - the nine-headed lion, after the netherworld, he transformed into the nine-headed lion essence of the Jiuqu Panhuan Cave of Zhujie Mountain, and the outside of the Jiuqu Panhuan Cave is full of this weed, which is also the origin of the name of the nine-headed lion grass. Its requirements for the growth environment are more demanding, often appearing in sparsely populated deep mountain canyons or mountain dense forests, such as in the Yunqi Bamboo Trail, Longjing scenic spot can see its figure.

Summer Plants | the story of flowers and plants south of the West Lake

Zen Tiger Run

"Crab claw silk petals are entangled, and colorful hydrangeas rhyme uniquely." Suddenly laughing, also known as yellow flower stone garlic, has the meaning of good happiness, it and safflower stone garlic in addition to the difference in color, its anti-roll and anti-wrinkle degree is also deeper. In the summer, a touch of bright color between the green areas of the tiger running forest belt always makes people feel happy, and the flowers that suddenly smile seem to emerge in an instant, and the golden flowers are particularly flourishing, standing in the bushes, sending summer surprises.

Recently, the Luohan Pine next to the Tiger Run Luohan Hall has also borne red fruits, and the Luohan Pine tree is beautiful in shape and green in leaves, which means happiness. Its fruit is very interesting, like two beads in series, and like a monk in a monk's robe, which complements the garden style of the Tiger Run Temple, and the eye-catching red fruit also attracts birds to come to eat, presumably a different taste.

Summer Plants | the story of flowers and plants south of the West Lake

A splendid white tower

The five-colored plum of the White Tower blooms just right, "attracting bees and attracting butterflies" is its survival strategy, and different colors can attract a variety of insects to visit and improve the chance of pollination. According to the different varieties and flowering time, the corolla of the five-color plum has yellow, red, pink, orange and other colors, and the flower bulb opens from the periphery to the middle stage when flowering, and each small flower is bright yellow at the beginning of the opening, and then gradually turns orange-red until deep red, and the flowering period can last for 4 or 5 months.

【Source: Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area Management Committee】

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