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When it was cold, I came to the Flower Port Fish Park, and I just wanted to take a picture of the plum blossoms in Wei Lu and go, but I didn't expect to walk involuntarily to the edge of the red fish pond. This is a place that I often visit all year round, and the few red plum trees dotted around the lake right now are a good time to enjoy the plum blossoms. But in my heart, I don't want to visit the red plum, but the Sheshan goat's milk tree that grows in the Shadow Pavilion, and at this moment, it has been blooming for nearly a month, and seems to be looking forward to my arrival.
She goat milk tree, is a plant of the genus Hu Zi, some places called Hu Zi tree, is an uncommon tree species. It is covered in green all year round, obscure in all seasons, the shape of the tree is several meters high, and there are small thorns on its body that are not easy to detect, so you need to approach it carefully to see its usual appearance.
It is distributed in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hunan and other places, and it is rarely seen in Hangzhou. It is said that the shadow of the goat's milk tree can also be seen in the Hangzhou Botanical Garden and Zijingang. If you don't tell you, you won't necessarily recognize it even if you walk around it.
The reason why it is called Sheshan goat milk is probably because the plant specimens are collected from Sheshan, so it is directly named after Sheshan when naming, and it is the iconic plant of Sheshan. And there is goat's milk in the name, probably from the shape of the flowers, a bit like the milk of the ewe, it sounds very cheesy, and it is easy to remind people of the characters such as "Li **zi" and Xu Dama stick in the past bandit films, but just from the appearance of flowers and fruits, it is very vivid.
This tree in the Flower Port Park, I often think about it when it is cold, this is the only rare ancient tree in Hangzhou that is up to 116 years old, a few years ago when I was walking in the Flower Port Park, I accidentally caught a glimpse of the ancient tree inscription in the stone fence next to the tree, I was secretly taken aback, I was curious about the entire West Lake area, and such an old tree species! Exactly who and why planted such a tree species seems to be a difficult mystery to solve.
There are many ancient and famous trees around the West Lake, with a total of 126 ancient and famous trees that are more than 300 years old, including more than 20 tree species such as camphor, sweetgum, bitter oak and ginkgo. The goat's milk tree, which is more than 100 years old, has never been heard of before.
Over the years, I have watched a lot of ancient trees in the West Lake, and gradually developed a feeling of awe, looking up and looking up, feeling that the ancient trees are reincarnated in four seasons, and they are also plants with fresh life, which can go through the wind, frost, rain and snow, witness the changes of the world and the world, in this sense, it is much greater than the life of human beings in just a few decades!
What's more, the rare goat's milk tree, such as the small languages of Serbian, Burmese, Hebrew, etc., has secrets that many people do not know. In the West Lake area, it can be listed as a century-old tree, and there is only one that has no other branches!
Ever since I saw it in spring and autumn, I've been thinking about waiting to see the landscape when it blooms. But time has passed in a hurry, and it has been dragging on until now, and finally met its flowery years!
Goat's milk flowers bloom quietly in the winter when the flowers are bleak, usually after New Year's Day, at first they are also small milky white flowers on the branches, and after a while, the trees become dense with small brown flowers, which bloom when people are not paying attention.
Actually, I have been to Flower Port a few times in the middle of winter, and I only thought about other hot spots, but I forgot about it, and I didn't keep tracking it, and when I found it, the small white flowers had turned into brownish-yellow flowers.
Although I once again missed the delicate appearance of its first flowers, there is no need to be too demanding. I couldn't wait to walk to the tree, first took a full body and silhouette photos of it from different angles, and then made different combinations with the lake of the goldfish pond, the photo booth, the grass, and the tourists passing by under the tree, etc., both the grandeur of the distant view and the close-up of the close-up.
Its flowers are cylindrical and shaped a bit like trumpets when not opened. After flowering, four or five petals are split, and each flower hangs downward, which looks very low-key and introverted, not ostentatious at all, and the flowers are so small, naturally they will not attract people's attention.
Smell carefully, the goat's milk flower will exude a slightly sweet aroma, say it is the fragrance of wax plum and plum blossom, it seems to be not, it is said to be the fragrance of camellia and fragrant flowers, it seems to be even more like. It is dark and sweet, and it smells a little better, not as viscous as fragrant, and a little brighter than plum blossoms.
Maybe it's because of the love of the house and the black.,Anyway, I'm willing to take the initiative to get close to it.,Suck it desperately.。 There is a fence outside the ancient tree, which grows several meters high, and it is closer to it when you turn to the pavilion, as if you can feel the pulse of its life in a breath.
The view of fish in the flower port is one of the old ten scenic spots of the West Lake in the Southern Song Dynasty. Emperor Qianlong also personally inscribed the four big characters of "Flower Harbor View Fish", and carved a stone monument on the side of the fish pond. The biggest feature of the flower port view fish is the red fish pond, the pond raises thousands of summer red carp, visitors stand on the curved stone bridge, to feed the fish to enjoy the simple happiness, and then listen to the tour guide to tell the Qianlong Emperor the mystery of the fish word less and "Huajia Mountain downstream flower port, flower fish body fish flower" elegant story, even if the tour of this scenic spot is completed.
Compared with the constant tourists on the stone bridge, the Printing Pavilion and the goat's milk tree next to it are much quieter, and the movement and stillness form a stark contrast. What everyone likes to chase is the popular hot spot that follows the trend, rather than something unique and niche, not to mention a strange tree that is silent all year round!
I remember that I came to the red fish pond at the turn of spring and summer, that is, on the other side of the goat's milk tree, and I took a small piece of red fish crape myrtle, which can be regarded as the imperial poem of Lord Qianlong.
The white ** fishing boy statue on the south side of the pond is lively and cute, every time I walk around, the fishing boy and the pavilion in the distance are always the protagonists of my shots, and the ancient trees that were surprised in the past are not once used as the object of close-up.
This pavilion is called the Shadow Pavilion, this pavilion is not a very special ancient pavilion, it is just an octagonal eight eaves heavy eaves of the waterfront pavilion, the Shadow Pavilion was built in 1968, is the original peony pavilion relocated and renamed.
Extrapolating from the time, the ancient goat milk tree was born here 60 years earlier than Xiangzi, and they are like a pair of friends who have been together through thick and thin, and have spent many spring and autumn seasons by the goldfish pond for decades.
I walked around the pavilion for a while, then sat on the railing and experienced the feeling of silence in the middle of nowhere. The goat's milk tree close to me, with pale yellow flower bunches hanging from the plaque in the cold pavilion. "Printing Pavilion" is the title of Mr. Guo Shaoyu, a famous classical writer, and there is a couplet of oracle bone inscription under the pavilion: "The eight-sided virtual pavilion is full of spring, and the surrounding is full of good luck and brocade scales." ”
The couplets write flowers and fish, reflecting the spring scenery of the fish pond. The goat's milk flower that blooms in the wax moon does not seem to add any spring color to the goldfish pond, so few visitors come to the pavilion to taste it.
Watching many people walk under this flowering tree, and many of them didn't even raise their heads to look at it, I couldn't help but feel deeply lonely and disappointed! There are too many beautiful and colorful flowers in the Flower Port Park, there are too many beautiful things to see in the spring and autumn to enjoy the maple, who cares about the goat's milk that seems to be dry like falling osmanthus?
The flower and fruit of the goat's milk are closely related, and the fruit grows right behind the flower, at first the color of a small kiwi, and then slowly becomes larger and redder, like a small oval tomato. Even when the fruit is fully ripe, the flower is reluctant to leave, and the "remains" of the flower still hang under the fruit.
In March and April, it is the time to enjoy cherry blossoms, begonia flowers and other flowers in the flower port, and the fruits on the branches of the goat's milk are red, scattered among the branches, one by one like small lanterns are very festive and beautiful, bright and dazzling in the sun. Interestingly, there is a small braid-like thing hanging down at the bottom of the fruit, just like a tassel at the bottom of the lantern, which decorates the little red fruit more elegantly and movingly.
The goat's milk tree can be regarded as a maverick tree, and unlike most trees in spring and autumn, it is winter and spring, dislocated for one or two seasons. When the wind and other flowers tremble, it blooms into small flowers that may not be climatic, bringing the breath of spring.
People have become accustomed to seeing plum blossoms and magnolia flowers as messengers of spring, and they do not know that there are also goat's milk flowers on the road to communication.
When the spring is bright and beautiful, it turns into a tree full of heavy fruits, as if it has always kept a distance from the prosperity and liveliness, full of tranquility and peace.
It is said that the goat's milk tree also has a flower language, which is "purity and hope". The world is unpredictable, and sometimes you can't keep up with the trend, you can't become fashionable, and you will feel lost and uneasy. The goat milk tree is unmoved, celibate, does not follow the crowd, in the season suitable for itself, it should bloom, the fruit will bear fruit, and I have found the happiness and dream of being born as a tree and always being a flower!
In the face of this hundred-year-old tree, we may sigh at the magic of the natural world and feel the different style of the flower of the minority. Strictly speaking, every flower and tree is a unique existence, cherish every moment of the moment, keep running in the wind, and always usher in your own brilliant spring.