The world's most flowered, do you know how many?

How many flowers do you know of?

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The world's most flowered, do you know how many?

Flowers, as an indispensable part of beautifying the environment, purifying the air, and decorating the scenery, are now more and more loved by people, and enjoying the display of flowers and trees, and cultivating potted bonsai are essential elements of life for most families. Thousands of purples and thousands of reds, hundreds of flowers competing for beauty, flowers, rare and exotic products, people are dazzling, heart-warming.

When people appreciate the cultivation of flowers, they are imperceptibly and increasingly refined, and they have also learned a lot of knowledge, broadened their minds, and cultivated their sentiments, so flowers are people's mentors and friends, and we must cherish them.

As the saying goes, "one flower and one world, one wood and one bodhi", the world of flowers is infinitely mysterious, there is no wonder, Hua Mu Jun will take you to understand the best of flowers, let us enter the magical flower world.

The best of flowers

Potted plants on hemudu pottery tablets

In 1977, two pieces of pottery fragments engraved with potted patterns were found at the site of Hemudu in Yuyao, Zhejiang, China, about 7,000 years ago. The pottery block depicts a five-leaf plant in a rectangular pot with short legs, one leaf in the middle is straight up, and the other four leaves are symmetrically divided on both sides, which can see the outlined leaf veins, and there is also a piece of pottery that depicts the three-leaf plant in the pot. This is the earliest and closest pattern to the image of potted plants found in China and even in the world so far, and can be seen as the original form of bonsai.

The earliest flower cultivated: the orchid

Orchid Song Mei

【The earliest cultivated flower】: Orchid. "Shijing Zheng Feng Qin Huan" "Qin and Huan, Fang Zhuo Xi. Soldier and woman, Fang Bingrui. Female 'Guan Hu?', Shi Yue 'Both', 'And Look at It!', Outside the Hun, Hun And Happy. Wei Shi and the female, Yi Qi, sneered at each other and gave them a spoonful of medicine. "It is said that the men and women of Zheng Guo went to the shore of Qinhu Ershui to gather happily, and gave each other orchids and peonies as gifts, which is the earliest record of flowers and plants in China, but only as a promise, a record of cultivation, in the "Departure from sorrow", qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of the Warring States period, called "Yu both Zilan's nine qi xi, and a hundred acres of trees", which is the earliest record of flower cultivation. Therefore, orchids should be the earliest flowers cultivated by the ancients, when called the king of herbs.

【The earliest bonsai mural】

Zhang Huai Prince Tomb Potted Plant

Two pots (pictured) on the Yongdao mural of the tomb of Li Xian, the Prince of Zhanghuai of the Tang Dynasty, excavated in Shaanxi in 1972, are the earliest potted plants found so far. On the screen, from north to south, there are three handmaidens in front and behind, each holding an object, and the last two maids are holding a bonsai in both hands.

Oval potted begonias

Lotus petal pot rhododendron

One of the maids holds an oval pot with a blooming begonia flower in her pot, and the other maid holds a potted plant in her right hand, and there is a rhododendron in the lotus petal-shaped pot, and the flower buds are full of branches and want to bloom. It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, not only in the varieties of bonsai colorful, but also in the pots are also different shapes, as well as the diversity of tree stone bonsai, flowers and trees said that bonsai, indicating that the cultivation technology of bonsai has been very mature, it is speculated that in the Han Dynasty should have existed for a long time.

【The earliest flower arrangement】

Flower arrangement murals unearthed in Wangdu

The eastern Han tomb mural unearthed in Wangdu County, Hebei Province, is painted with round pots, six red flowers in the pots, and several square shelves under the pots, and plants, pots and several shelves form a whole, which is very similar to modern bonsai art. This form is more similar to flower arrangement.

The world's largest single flower: 【Overlord Flower】

The tyrannosaurus flower, also known as the rafflesia arnoldii, is known as the world's largest flower, and there are still parasitic plants in Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. It blooms only one flower in its lifetime, and the flowers can grow up to 3 feet in diameter, the largest diameter can reach 1.4 meters, and the mass can reach up to 25 pounds, or 10 kilograms. Arnol's large flowers are fleshy and colorful, and the spots on them make them look like the faces of adolescent children covered with acne.

Overlord flower

【The world's largest flowering plant】 Giant wisteria

The world's largest flowering plant is the giant wisteria branch that currently grows in HanLamed, California, USA, which is 153 meters long and weighs 252 tons, covering an area of 4,100 square meters and blooming about 1.5 million flowers per year.

[The world's smallest flower] rootless ping

Watermeal, also known as oval, turnip, micro-ping, flea, rendan algae, etc., belongs to the duckweed family in classification, rootless ping. It looks like a green fish egg, with a rootless ping that is only more than 1 mm long and less than 1 mm wide, and its flowers are only as large as pin tips, making it the smallest seed plant in the world. The flowers are only as small as the tip of a needle. Rootless Ping has set three world records: first, the world's smallest flowering plant; second, the world's smallest flower plant; third, the world's smallest fruit plant.

【The world's tallest tree】Australian almond eucalyptus

Generally speaking, the height of a tree is about two stories high, and trees over ten meters are rare, while the almond eucalyptus tree can grow to more than 100 meters, and the highest can grow to 156 meters, which is equivalent to 50 stories high, which is 14 meters higher than the tallest giant sequoia in the Americas, the General Sherman Tree. It is said that a single tree can evaporate 175 tons of water per year, so some countries plant eucalyptus trees in the swamp as a living water pump to pump water from the ground.

Australian almond eucalyptus

【The oldest tree in the world】Norwegian spruce

Known as old tjikko, the European spruce was discovered in 2004 during a tree census in Sweden's Fulufjallets National Park, and after carbon-14 dating tests, it was found that its root system is at least 9500 years old, but the trunk is relatively young.

【The world's oldest cypress tree】 Regulus Cypress

Xuanyuan Cypress towers in the Yellow Emperor Temple of Beiqiao Mountain, Huangling County, Shaanxi Province, with a side cypress genus, the height of the tree is more than 20 meters, and the bust circumference is 7.8 meters. Although it has experienced more than 5,000 years of wind and frost, it is still dry and beautiful, with lush branches and leaves, the canopy covers an area of 178 square meters, and the tree fence is known as "seven arms, eight and a half, and the knots in the knots are not counted". Since there is no other cypress tree in the world that is older than it, it is known as the "father of the cypress tree of the world".

The Yellow Emperor Temple is more than 5,000 years old

【The world's most cold-not afraid herb】Alpine snow lotus

Alpine snowdrop is a perennial herb of the Asteraceae family. It is commonly distributed in the northern and southern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains, the Altai Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains in Xinjiang, China, at an altitude of 4000-5000 meters. Snow lotus seeds germinate at zero degree Celsius and grow at 3-5°C, and seedlings can withstand severe cold of −21°C. Even at minus 50 degrees Celsius, the adult plants bloom with flowers.

Alpine snow lotus

【The world's most plant that is not afraid of high temperatures】 wild cactus

The world's most high-temperature-tolerant flower is the wild cactus of Africa, which can thrive on the scorching desert, known as the "Desert Hero Flower", a class of succulents that can withstand temperatures of 50 ° C.

【The world's most fragrant flower】Ruixiang and rose

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rosebush

Two theories, one that Europeans believe is the dutch wild rose, the aroma can be transmitted for 5 kilometers. One is China's specialty Ruixiang, rich in floral fragrance, fragrant for miles, smell intoxicating.

【The world's most elegant flower】 Orchid

Orchid incense is considered by Confucius to have "king incense", the aroma belongs to the fragrance, but it is very mellow, with the style of the king, and now the world synthesizes artificial fragrance, orchid fragrance is still a problem.

【The world's stinky flower】Titan konjac flower

The world's most smelly flowers, also known as corpse stink flowers, giant potatoes, etc., English carrion stench flowers, attract pollinators through a foul smell of rotten meat, native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, flowers up to 1.33 meters in diameter, weigh about 100 kg, average height of 2 meters (up to 2.9 meters), discovered by botanist odoardo beccari in 1878 on the island of Sumatra.