Hello everyone I am a wisdom bag. Today I introduce you to the "fire flower", the fire flower is also known as: Burmese wood, spark tree, cannon flower. It is a small tree of the genus Firefly in the family Asteraceae , with smooth bark and long oval white skin holes on its young branches. Corolla orange-yellow to golden yellow, tubular, slightly contracted at the base, 5 clefts in the eaves, semicircular, folded back. The base of the filigree is covered with fine soft hairs, the anthers glyphs are raw, and the anthers and stigmas are slightly exposed outside the corolla tube. The stigma head of the peduncle is 2 cracked. It often opens on tree trunks or old branches, such as a raging flame, hence the name fire. The fruit droops and is woody. The seeds are ovoid and have white, transparent membranous wings. The flowering period is from February to May, and the fruit period is from May to September. It is found in Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi and southern Yunnan. Commonly used in landscaping, it is an excellent garden tree species, and the fire flowers can be used as vegetables; its bark, stem bark, and root bark can be used in medicine to treat dysentery, diarrhea and so on.
Native to tropical areas, fire flowers prefer high temperatures, high humidity and sunny environments, but can tolerate dry heat and semi-shade, not cold, and avoid frost. The growth temperature is 23-30 ° C, can withstand a temperature of about 0 ° C, but in the long-term low temperature of 5-6 ° C, its branches will be frost damaged. It prefers deep, medium fertility, well-drained neutral to slightly acidic soils, and is not tolerant to salinity and alkali. It grows slowly on arid and barren soils.
Because of its multi-season flowering, fire flowers can be harvested in multiple seasons, so sowing and propagation is the main method of propagating seedlings. When the fruit is ripe, the peel changes from cyan to black brown, at this time, the fruit is picked and dried in a windless place, and then the seeds are gently knocked out, which can be picked and sown in the right season, and stored until the following spring when it is cold in winter. Because the seeds are small, they are generally sown and covered with thin soil after sowing. After seed sowing, at a temperature of about 25 °C, keep the sowing bed moist, generally about 1 week germination, germination rate of 60%-80%. Seedlings grow for 50-60 days, when the seedlings are slightly woody, they can be moved to the field for cultivation, and can be out of the nursery in 1-2 years, and flowering in 3-5 years. The survival rate of cuttings of fire flowers is low, and the survival rate can be improved by grafting, high-altitude pressing strips and other methods during vegetative propagation, and dwarfing is then used for potting. Plants obtained by vegetative propagation can generally flower in 1-2 years.
The standing blight of burning flowers mainly occurs in the spring when there is a lot of rain, and both seedlings and adult plants are endangered. Dark brown spots are produced in the victim area, and in severe cases, they die in pieces. The main insect pests are aphids, ruler moths, yellow night moths, night moths, large and small tigers and scarab beetles. Aphids will affect plant growth and induce coal pollution diseases; ruler moths and nocturnal moths are harmful to leaf eating by larvae, and in severe cases, they can eat all the young shoots in 2 to 3 days; ground tigers and scarab beetles feed on the root system with larvae, ground tigers mainly harm cuttings and seedlings, and scarab beetles are large, medium and small seedlings.
Fire flowers are widely distributed in the low altitude areas of Xishuangbanna. It is one of the most common plants in Xishuangbanna in March and April. Fire flowers generally bloom first and then leaf, which is typical of old stems and flowers. The flowers are orange-yellow and have a small trumpet. In the Xishuangbanna area, almost every ethnic group eats fire flowers, which can be fried and eaten, and can be boiled in soup, which has long formed a culture and feelings of fire flowers that are difficult for outsiders to understand. The Hani claim to call it "Azmakhaneng" and the Dai call it "Buried Sticky Ratio". Fire flowers are excellent garden landscape trees in parks, courtyards, streets and scenic areas, which can be planted in lawns, ponds or main roads as shade trees or sidewalk trees, and are also suitable for solitary planting or column planting.
Legend has it that there was a beautiful little girl in the West Village a long time ago, it was very beautiful and ordinary, people forgot its name, so people called it beauty, beauty grew up day by day, there were many people who came to propose marriage, her parents were very happy, they decided to marry her to the group of people who proposed marriage, the richest people, there were people in the crowd who had cattle and sheep in their homes. Among them were the chiefs, all of whom were rich, but they never expected their daughters not to agree, she said I would not marry these rich people, I did not need them to feed, I only loved the hard-working and brave young man named Dutu. Dutu was the son of a peasant family, and the rice bananas he planted grew particularly well, and the wine he made from rice bananas was very fragrant.
Dutu was also a very famous archer, and he himself was very brave in hunting cheetahs in the jungle. When the chief heard that the beauty did not want to marry him, but wanted to marry The Dutu of the poor peasant family, he was very annoyed, the chief was fighting with other tribes, he decided to recruit soldiers in the tribe, and recruitEd Dutu, thus breaking them up. Dutu was also about to go to the front line because of the conscription, and when he was leaving, the beauty came to see him off, and when he left, the beauty always came to the hillside and looked at the route when Dutu was leaving. A few months passed, and the beauty still did not see Dutu return, her heart was very anxious, she said to the eagle in the sky, please fly to the lake to help me see it?
When the eagle saw the anxious face of the beauty, he was very sympathetic, so he agreed. The eagle on the opposite side of the lake saw that the sound of fighting on the battlefield was everywhere, the sand smoke on the battlefield was rolling, the warriors on both sides were charging, only to see Dutu charging at the forefront, fighting bravely to kill the enemy, seeing that the enemy was defeated, the eagle was very happy, so it screamed several times, when it looked for Dutu's figure again, Dutu fell in a pool of blood, seriously injured and died, the eagle saw very embarrassed, did not know how to report to the beauty. Beauty was very anxious on the other side of the lake, she saw that the eagle had not returned for a long time, and her heart was more worried, so she stopped the bees around her and asked them to help her see the situation on the opposite battlefield.
When the bees came to the opposite side and saw the weeping eagle, they understood something, although the triumphant drums on the other side of the lake were long and long, and the eagle's expression at that time explained everything. So the bees also began to be sad, crying on the flowers next to them, did not dare to go back to tell the beauty, afraid that she would accept the blow, the beauty only saw that they did not come back, so they said to the sun in the sky, God help me to take the lover's side, the sun saw the process, but also helpless, can only send the beauty to the cruel battlefield, she saw The figure who fell in a pool of blood, very sad, so she said to the sun, please burn me with the lover, let me go with the lover.
So the sun also very much appreciated the sincerity of the beauty, so he put down a flame to cremate her and her lover, and the soldiers buried her and her lover together, and when people went to sweep their graves, they found that a beautiful tree had grown, and the flowers on the tree were fiery red, bright red, and bloomed towards the sun, so people called this tree, the lover tree. Xiaobian to popularize its knowledge to you, fire flowers it needs a high temperature to flower, just like its name, it takes a high temperature to make it flower, in the domestic temperature is relatively low areas, fire flowers are not easy to flower, if the maintenance at home usually the temperature must be high.
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