China Naming Network - Almanac query - What's the difference between peach leaf coral and golden coral?
What's the difference between peach leaf coral and golden coral?
Leaf difference: the leaves of the peach-leaf coral are leathery, oval or wide oval; Golden coral leaves are fleshy and rectangular, with yellow spots on the leaves and shiny surface. The difference of flowers: the panicle of peach-leaf coral is terminal, 4 petals, rectangular, purplish red; Golden coral panicles with purple-brown flowers.
First, the difference between leaves.
Coral leaves with peach leaves are leathery, oval or broadly oval, vaguely obovate, about 10 to 20 cm long and 3.5 to 8 cm wide. Leaf tip, base wedge or wide wedge, leaf margin slightly rolled back. The leaves are dark green above and light green below.
There are yellow spots of different sizes on the leaves of golden coral. The leaves are opposite, the meat is round, the teeth are sparse and rough, and the surface is shiny
Second, the difference between flowers
Peach leaf coral panicle is terminal, four-petalled, oblong or oval, 3-4 mm long, 2-2.5 cm wide and purple.
The flower of golden coral is a terminal panicle with purple-brown flowers.