During the cold dew season, I drove to Yuhang North Lake to enjoy the reed flowers, and I actually met the long-lost red and white flowers.
As far as the eye can see, piece by piece, cluster by cluster, in the distance, it looks like a pink cloud floating among the white reeds.
It was a plant that I remembered as well, but I couldn't really call her name! Therefore, I couldn't help but ask for help in the powerful circle of friends - the answer came from the north of the south of the world: it turned out that this plant that I had known since childhood but could not be named was called red indigo.
The red indigo flowers bloom, and the jade dew is early in the night.
The sky is wide, and the clouds are light and the rivers are green.
Red indigo, this fine and beautiful little flower, in autumn, inadvertently blooms again.
"Red indigo a bay pattern valerian, white fish double tail jade knife Ming." The poems of Zhang Xiaoxiang, a famous lyricist of the Song Dynasty, vividly describe the characteristics of red indigo flowers.
As a child, I had the impression that the red indigo had a long flowering period, blooming from summer to autumn, because of its strong vitality, and the fields were full of wild growth.
In autumn, red indigo produces light red flowers. Its flowers are like small model ears of grain, hanging downwards.
As the flower of autumn parting, the red indigo has a very practical place.
After the branches and leaves of the red indigo are dried, the resulting smoke can be ignited to repel mosquitoes and flies, which can be called a natural mosquito coil. In addition, the branches of red indigo are often used as a spice for cooking meat, and it is said that the effect of removing fish is very good, and it has not been tried personally.
Some people also say that in autumn, you can use the fresh red leaves to pickle green persimmons, the principle of which is unknown, and it is wonderful to think about.
Red indigo is beautiful, it is lush, it is prosperous, it is free, in the late autumn when all things wither and fall, only they are so striking and beautiful in a piece of yellow, they are a bright color given to the world by nature...