Beautiful crape myrtle flowers described by ancient poets

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Things are rare and valuable. How many of the thousands of trees in the world are barkless? The crape myrtle tree is one of them. Its trunk is smooth and if you touch it gently with your hand, the whole tree will tremble, which is very novel. Let’s take a look at the crape myrtle flowers described by ancient poets!

Morphological characteristics of crape myrtle

Lagerstroemia is a deciduous shrub or small tree. Artificially cultivated in Jiangsu crape myrtle base, the quantity is large. The morphological characteristics of crape myrtle are small trees, sometimes shrub-like, 3~7 meters high; the bark is easy to fall off and the trunk is smooth. The young branches are slightly quadrangular and slightly wing-shaped.

Lagerstroemia leaves are alternate or opposite, almost sessile; the leaves are oval, obovate or oblong, 3～7 long cm, width 2.5～4cm, smooth and hairless or hairy along the main veins. Panicles are terminal, 4～20 cm long; flower diameter 2.5～3 cm; calyx 6Shallow lobes, lobes are oval, smooth outside; petals6, purple, red, pink or white, with irregular notches on the edges and long claws at the base; stamens36 ～42, the outer 6 filaments are longer; the ovary has 6 cells.

The crape myrtle capsule is elliptical and spherical, 9～13mm long and 8～ wide 11mm, 6 valve cleft. The seeds are winged. The flowering period is 6～9 months, and the fruiting period is 7～9 months. The trunk of the tree becomes smoother as it gets older. When you touch it with your hand, the whole tree trembles slightly.

The beautiful crape myrtle flower described by ancient poets

< p> Yang Wanli, a poet of the Song Dynasty, praised in his poem: "It's as beautiful as intoxication. The dew is so heavy and the wind is so slanting. Who knows that flowers don't bloom for a hundred days, but crape myrtle blooms for half a year." Xue Hui of the Ming Dynasty also wrote: "The crape myrtle flower blooms for half a year." The longest period of time is ten days of rotting, and summer is over and autumn begins, and new flowers continue to bloom." Northerners call crape myrtle trees "monkey thorns off", which means that the tree is too slippery for monkeys to climb up. What's valuable about it is that it has no bark.

Things are rare and valuable. How many of the thousands of trees in the world are barkless? The trunk of a young crape myrtle grows epidermis every year and falls off on its own every year. After the epidermis falls off, the trunk appears fresh and smooth. The old crape myrtle tree has lost its skin and its veins are exposed. Smooth and smooth.

When the crape myrtle tree grows up, the outer bark of the trunk falls off and becomes smooth and skinless. If people touch it gently, it will immediately shake its branches and leaves, tremble all over, and even make a faint "gurgling" sound. This is a systemic reaction of its "tickness", which is really amazing.

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