Speaking of cats, whether it is a domestic cat, a cartoon image of the black cat sheriff, Garfield, etc., people have poured too much emotion, simply love can not extricate themselves, so that according to the morphological characteristics of the plant, the plant is also named cat so-and-so, such as cattail wood, cat's claw vine.
Cattail wood is a tall tree of the asteraceae family, which is blooming in Guangzhou today, the flowers are beautiful and flowing, picking up a falling flower in hand, a girl in a bohemian long dress immediately jumped in front of her.
The flowering of some plants is destined to be low-key and subtle, such as the cattail tree that blooms at night. What we often see is the falling flowers, today's falling flowers, yesterday's falling flowers, the previous falling flowers, creating a sense of flowers covering the ground. The cattail wood flower is not large, expensive in the long-lasting, south China Botanical Garden cattail began to bloom at the end of October this year, in November, in the middle of winter, it is still in bloom. The fruit of the cattail wood looks strange and unforgettable, its calyx and inflorescence shaft are covered with brown fluff, the fruit is thick and long, furry, hanging in the treetops like a cat's tail, and the touch feels smooth and the cat's fur is the same. The fruit of the cattail wood varies in shape, mostly straight or curved, and occasionally encounters wavy, curly and ring-shaped, vividly interpreting the cat's cuteness in different moods.
There is also the cat's claw vine, the cat's claw vine, which is named after the three small hook-like tendrils at the top of the leaves that have a strong adsorption capacity and resemble cat's claws. Cat's claw vine is native to tropical America, more than a hundred years ago, cat's claw vine as an ornamental plant introduced to Xiamen Gulangyu Island, evergreen cat's claw vine along the courtyard fence densely climbed intermittently, between April and May between the slender vines bright yellow flowers protruded from time to time, very beautiful.
Cat's claw vine has strong reproductive ability, developed root system, grows fast, and can spread like a "carpet" throughout the woodland and climb all over the canopy, affecting the normal growth and seed germination of other plants. In addition to being viewable, it is used as a folk medicine in many countries to treat inflammation, rheumatism and other ailments.
Cattail wood and cat's claw vine are available for ornamentation and medicinal use, if the cattail wood is like an old good man, thick and honest, horizontal and vertical are beneficial to humans, then the cat's claw vine is a strange and strange, amazing audience.