Grass finches: ancient vines winding, birds returning home, red, purple, white and green, extraordinarily enchanting
Mr. Hanaki
Grass sparrow is a unique ornamental vine flower in the south, because of the peculiar shape of the flower is famous, every spring, the flowers bloom luxuriantly, on the quaint and curved vines, embellished with a bunch of flowers, privately unopened, shaped like thousands of birds and finches inhabiting the shade, colorful, exquisite, very ornamental value, the following we will introduce the grass finches.
Grass finch, also known as finch flower, oil hemp vine, is a legume, butterfly flower subfamily, li bean genus (also known as oil hemp vine, scientific name: mucuna adans.) evergreen woody vine winding plant. Common features of the genus Lidou are: pinnate compound leaves with 3 leaflets, with small support leaves; large, beautiful, and arranged in a total inflorescence; calyx-shaped, 2-tooth synphyles; corolla dark purple, yellow-green, or nearly white, protruding out of the calyx; flag petals are usually only half as long as the keel lobe, with inwardly curved ears at the base; the keel flap is about the same length or longer as the wing flap, with a beak at the apex; the pods are linear to oblong, smooth or obliquely folded, along the pod slits with ridges, and are covered with soft or prickly hairs.
There are about 60 species of Lidou in the world, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, there are 30 species in China, mainly distributed in southwest, central and southern China, south China to Taiwan and other provinces. Common varieties are white flower oil hemp vine, Ning oil hemp vine, beauty leaf oil hemp vine, evergreen oil hemp vine and so on.
【White flower oil hemp vine】
Mucunabirdwoodiana tutcher, an evergreen woody large vine with a stem length of up to 30 m or more; old stem skin gray-brown, cross-sectional pale reddish brown, with 3-4 eccentric concentric circles, the section first flows white juice, after 2-3 minutes there is blood-red sap formation; leaflets are nearly leathery, apical leaflets oval, ovate or slightly inverted ovate; the general inflorescence is born on old branches or in the leaf axils, 20-38 cm long, with 20-30 flowers, often bunched Bracts ovate, with sparse or dense dark brown hairs; corolla white or greenish white; fruit woody, banded, nearly candibal,dense reddish-brown short villi; flowering period of 4-6 months, fruit period 6-11 months.
【Distribution】Mainly distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan and other provinces and regions.
【Appreciation features】White flower oil hemp vine flowering period is earlier, generally before and after the Qingming Dynasty; white flower oil hemp vine vine is thick, winding, simple and vigorous, the leaves are emerald green, the inflorescence is huge, the milky white or white green flower buds are clustered together, drooping and hanging, like a flock of kingfishers, suckling pigeons home, playing with each other, very interesting.
【Ningyou Hemp Vine】
Mucunalamellata wilmot-dear, also known as mucunalamellata wilmot-dear, climbing vine, stem slightly woody, longitudinal groove, glabrous or hairless; inflorescence axillary, 7–27 cm long, usually 3 flowers per node; corolla dark purple or red; pod leathery, oblong, curved at the base and apex; flowering period of 4-5 months.
【Distribution】Mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces.
【Appreciation characteristics】 Although the inflorescence of Ningyou Hemp vine is not large, the flower color is changeable, lilac, red, purple and white and green are often intertwined, a string, a family, hanging up and down on the vine, like a flock of birds dancing, the flowers are beautiful, lively and extraordinary.
【Beauty leaf oil hemp vine】
Mucunacalophylla (scientific name: mucunacalophylla w. w. smith), climbing vine, stem length up to 1-3 m, diameter of up to 2 cm, reddish brown, bark often with longitudinal grooves, cracking; pinnate compound leaves with 3 small leaves narrow ovate or lanceolate, rounded at the base, sparsely covered with silver hairs, densely covered with silver silk hairs; inflorescence axillary, 3-12 cm long, 3 flowers per node, distributed in the entire part of the inflorescence axis, but mostly clustered near the apex, early fall of bracts, narrow ovate, The corolla is purple with reddish or dark magenta, the flag petals are nearly round, and the fruit is woody, banded oblong. Flowering period is from April to May.
【Distribution】China's specialties, mainly distributed in the west and central part of Yunnan (Eryuan, Binchuan, Lufeng and other places), produced in the forest, open shrubland or dry grass slopes, at an altitude of 1000-3000 meters.
【Appreciation features】The inflorescence of the beautiful leaf oil hemp vine is petite and gorgeous, the magenta flowers, the pink and delicate, the small and exquisite, the birds are dependent on people, the tail of the finch is turned outward, the delicacy is cute, and it is cute.
【Evergreen Oil Hemp Vine】
Evergreen oil hemp vine (scientific name: mucunasempervirens hemsl.), aliases: cow horse vine, mountain dragon, oil hemp blood vine, large blood vine, ivy oil hemp vine, evergreen bean vine, cotton hemp vine, grass sparrow, finches flower, etc. Evergreen woody large left-handed vine, stem up to 30 m long, three pinnate compound leaves, alternate, leathery, apical leaflets ovate oval, lateral leaflet obliquely ovate, full margin. The inflorescence is 30 to 60 cm long, with a dark purple or purple-red corolla; the pods are flat, woody, densely covered with golden yellow coarse hairs; the flowering period is April to June, and the fruit ripens in October.
【Distribution】Evergreen oil vine is widely distributed in Southwest China to South China and East China, and is always on limestone.
【Appreciation features】Evergreen oil hemp vine is the most widely cultivated variety in the grass sparrow varieties, rapid growth, long life, extremely resistant to barrenness, stem brown, ancient vine winding, especially all vines are rotated to the left, very peculiar; the inflorescence is huge, up to half a meter, the flowers are numerous, under the ancient vine trunk, each string can reach dozens of flowers, very spectacular, the flower color is changeable, there are lilac, purple, blue-purple, magenta multi-color, like kingfisher grass flocks, gorgeous, lively, ornamental value is extremely high.
The above are the common varieties of grass sparrow flowers, in addition to the large fruit oil hemp vine (corolla dark purple, flag petal green white), large bulb oil hemp vine (corolla dark purple), large blood vine (corolla pink or green white), Qiong oil hemp vine (corolla dark purple with red) and so on, most of the flowers are bright color, the flower shape is strange, eye-catching.
The common feature of the grass finch flower is that it is corolla butterfly-shaped, with 5 petals, symmetrical on both sides, the upper petal is a flag petal, the middle two petals are wing petals, and the bottom two petals are the largest keel petals, like butterflies flying. The keel petals wrap around the pistils and stamens, and only when the insects arrive, the flower buds are exposed due to the pressure of the insects, and the flowers will recover and protect the flower buds after the insects leave, and the seeds are contained in the pods. Moreover, most grass and sparrow plants are damaged, and red sap like blood will flow out, which has always been a phenomenon that has been praised by the world.
The buds of the grass finches are full of buds, rarely fully bloomed, the petals are curled into wings, as if the tail of the grass finches is upturned, the birds are phoenix, the flocks of finches gather, the perching and dancing, the whole flower body hangs on the vine, transparent and exquisite, or white, or light green, or pink, or magenta, or lilac, or purple red, or purple green, or reddish brown, rich in color, delicate and beautiful, noisy and extraordinary, very fieldy.
The life of the grass sparrow flower is also very long, in the 1990s, it was found that the vine with an age of more than 7,000 years was found, the vine was about 30 cm in diameter, as thick as an arm, the vine branches climbed along nearly 3,000 square meters, and the flowers bloomed in ten thousand bunches, dense and stunning, very spectacular.
The above is the introduction and identification of grass sparrow varieties, I hope you can like, if there is any lack, please criticize and correct, thank you!
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