What flowers bloom from January to December?
1, January: camellia
Camellia, also known as Camellia, is the general name of many plants and horticultural varieties in Camelliaceae and Camellia. Petals are bowl-shaped and divided into single petals or double petals. Single-petal camellia is mostly primitive, and double-petal camellia can have up to 60 petals.
Camellia has different degrees of red, purple, white and yellow flowers, and even camellias with color stripes. The highest flower branch can reach 4 meters. Sex likes warm and humid environment. The flowering period is long, from June 10 to May of the following year, and the full flowering period is generally from June1-March.
February: Winter jasmine
Winter jasmine, also known as Spring Festival, Jasminum giraldii, golden belt, has deciduous shrubs. Plant height is 30- 100 cm. Branchlets are slender, erect or arched, drooping, showing a chaotic pattern. 3 leaflets are opposite to compound leaves, and the leaves are ovoid to oblong.
Flowers were born on the branches born last year, which opened before the leaves, with a faint fragrance, golden color and a blush outside. The flowering period is from February to April. Named for its earliest opening among flowers, flowers will usher in the spring of flowers.
March: Peach Blossom
Peach blossom, the blooming flower of peach tree, belongs to Rosaceae. The leaves are elliptic and lanceolate, and the drupe is nearly spherical, which is mainly divided into two categories: peach and peach. Peach blossom originated in north-central China, and is widely planted in temperate countries and regions in the world. Its propagation is mainly by grafting.
Peach blossom can be made into peach crisp, peach balls, peach tea and other foods. With high ornamental value, it is a common material for literary creation. In addition, the elements in peach blossom have medicinal value of dredging meridians and moistening skin. Its gorgeous language and representative meaning are: prisoners of love.
From March to June every year, different Peach Blossom Festival activities are held in different places with peach blossoms as the medium.
April: Peony
Flowers are colorful, jade smiles and pearls are fragrant, romantic and elegant, and they are known as "the king of flowers". In terms of cultivation types, it can be divided into hundreds of varieties mainly according to the color of flowers. "Peony has many varieties and colors, with yellow, green, fleshy red, crimson and silvery red as the top grades, especially yellow and green. Peony flower is big and fragrant, so it is also called "national color and fragrance".
May: pomegranate flowers
Pomegranate belongs to the genus Pomegranate. Pomegranate trunk is grayish brown, flaky, tender branches are yellow-green, smooth, often quadrangular, with prickly branches and no terminal buds. Pomegranate flowers have opposite or clustered leaves, oblong or obovate, and new leaves are light green or bronze. Flowers to several peanuts at the top of branches or axils of leaves. Calyx bell-shaped, fleshy, 6-lobed at the apex, smooth and waxy, orange-red, persistent.
Petals 5 ~ 7 are red or white, single or double. Pomegranate flowers are often planted by cutting, dividing plants and layering propagation. It has astringent, antidiarrheal and early killing medicinal values, and can be made into fried pomegranate flowers and other dishes. Its flower language is: mature beauty, wealth, children. It is the city flower of Xi.
June, June: Lotus
Lotus belongs to Nymphaeaceae, which is the general name of two kinds of lotus. Also known as lotus, water hibiscus and so on. It is a perennial aquatic herb flower of lotus. Underground stems are long and thick, with long nodes and round leaves. Flowering from June to September, it is solitary at the top of the pedicel. There are many petals embedded in the receptacle hole, which are red, pink, white and purple, or have colored lines and edges. Nuts are oval and seeds are oval.
1985 in may, lotus was rated as one of the top ten flowers in China. Lotus is the national flower of India and Vietnam.
July: Jasmine.
Jasmine is the general name of evergreen shrubs or vines of Jasmine in Meliaceae. It is native to India and Pakistan, and has been introduced and widely planted in China. Jasmine likes warm, humid and sunny environment. Its leaves are green, its color is white and its fragrance is rich. It is the most common fragrant potted flower.
Among Jasmine, Jasmine is the most famous, commonly known as Jasmine. Jasmine has a good health care and beauty function, and can be used for diet therapy. It symbolizes love and friendship.
August: osmanthus fragrans
Osmanthus fragrans is one of the top ten traditional famous flowers in China. It is an excellent ornamental and practical garden tree, which has the functions of greening, beautification and fragrance. Osmanthus fragrans is necessary. Especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival when laurel trees are in full bloom and the night is quiet and full moon, it is refreshing to taste the wine and smell the fragrance of Chen.
In ancient Chinese poems about flowers, there are also a considerable number of poems about Guangxi. Since ancient times, it has been deeply loved by the people of China and regarded as a traditional famous flower.
September: Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum is one of the top ten famous flowers in China, one of the four gentlemen among flowers (Prunus mume) and one of the four cut flowers in the world (chrysanthemum, rose, carnation and gladiolus), with the highest yield. Because chrysanthemums are cold and proud of snow, there is Tao Yuanming's famous sentence, "Pick chrysanthemums under the east fence and see Nanshan leisurely."
People in China have the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. Tang Meng's "Passing the Old Village": "Wait until Shan Ye Holiday, I will come back in the chrysanthemum season." In ancient myths and legends, chrysanthemums are also endowed with the meaning of good luck and longevity.
Chrysanthemum is a valuable ornamental flower cultivated by long-term artificial selection. It was introduced to Japan from China as an ornamental chrysanthemum around the eighth century. At the end of 17, Dutch merchants introduced China chrysanthemum to Europe, to France in 18 and to North America in the middle of 19. Since then, chrysanthemums in China have spread all over the world.
10, October: hibiscus
Hibiscus is a deciduous shrub or small tree of Malvaceae and Hibiscus, formerly known as Hibiscus, alias Hibiscus, Freezing Flower, Manglietia, Hibiscus, Hua Mu and Hibiscus, with Latin scientific names of Hibiscus, Malvaceae and Hibiscus. Pedicel and calyx are densely mixed with fine hairs and straight hair.
Leaves are broadly ovate to ovoid or heart-shaped, with acuminate apex and obtuse serrations, with sparse stellate hairs and tips on the upper part and dense stellate hairs on the lower part; The flowers are white or reddish at first, and then become crimson, with a diameter of about 8 cm, and the petals are nearly round and sparse. Capsule oblate, covered with light yellow bristles and woolly hairs, with kidney-shaped seeds and villous back. Flowering: August -65438+ 10.
1 1, November: Narcissus
Narcissus is a variety of narcissus. It is a perennial herb of Amaryllidaceae. Narcissus leaves are extracted from the green and white tubular sheath at the top of the bulb and then from the leaves. Generally, each bulb can take out 1-2 stems, and many bulbs can reach 8- 1 1 branches, which are umbels. There are six petals, and the ends of the petals are yellow.
There is a bowl-shaped protective cover outside the stamen. Bulbs are ovoid to wide ovoid and covered with a brown film. The leaves are long and narrow, and the back of the capsule is cracked.
Narcissus likes warmth, humidity and good drainage. It has been cultivated in China for over 1000 years. It is a traditional ornamental flower and one of the top ten famous flowers in China.
12, December: plum blossom
Plum is native to southern China and has been cultivated for more than 3000 years. There are many varieties of plum, whether it is ornamental or fruit trees. Many types are not only cultivated in the open field for viewing, but also planted as potted flowers to make plum piles. Flowers can be refined, and flowers, leaves, roots and seeds can be used as medicine.
The fruit can be eaten, pickled or processed into Senecio scandens, or smoked into ebony, which has the effects of relieving cough, stopping diarrhea, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Plum blossom can resist the harm of root-knot nematodes and can be used as the rootstock of drupe fruit trees.
Plum blossom is the first of the top ten famous flowers in China. With orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, they are listed as four gentlemen, and with pine and bamboo, they are also called "three friends of the old cold". In the traditional culture of China, Mei gives people an incentive to work hard with her noble, strong and modest personality. In the cold, before the flowers bloom, the world is lonely, and spring has come.
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