In spring and April, the residents of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan are blessed.
With the footsteps of spring, Ma Yinghua blooms at the top of the mountain halfway up the mountain.
They are in full bloom in the wind, with a variety of customs, picturesque, faint floral fragrance, fiery red and warm.
Ma Yinghua, evergreen shrub or small tree. The height can reach12m. Branches are stout, erect and simple leaves alternate. Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan are widely distributed in China. It mainly grows under shrubs and pine forests in roadside villages on slopes of 200-3 100 meters.
Why Ma Yinghua?
It is an umbrella-shaped raceme with many flowers, among which 10-20 flowers are clustered at the ends of branches, and the corolla is bell-shaped, purple-red, large and beautiful. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is 9-65438+1October.
"Miscellanies of Lingnan" Ma Yinghua wrote: The color is red, like a horse tassel, and its flowers are drooping, with dozens of flowers in a row, which is praised by the highest. It turns out that its color is reddish, and its flowers droop like a tassel. So it is called Ma Yinghua.
Some people think that Ma Yinghua is a azalea. In fact, Ma Yinghua is Ma Yinghua, and azaleas are azaleas.
Rhododendron corolla is funnel-shaped, with red, reddish, apricot red, white and other colors. 2-6 flowers per cluster.
Some people call it Acacia Ma Yinghua. It's actually just a name. Albizia Albizia is a velvet tree with red filaments, which only blooms in June and July every year.
Ma Yinghua belongs to Rhododendron family, also known as Rhododendron equisetifolium, Camellia japonica and Dendranthema densiflora. It is also a blind Chinese medicine.