In winter, the refreshing fragrance of plum blossoms.
It has brought a lot of elegance, and now, the wax plum and early plum in Century Park have bloomed, let's take a look!
At this time, the wax plum in the Century Park is blooming vigorously, and the best viewing point of the wax plum is in the "Winter Garden" near Gate 7, also known as the "Plum Garden".
Wax plum in the early winter, grow a layer of buds, the tip of the bud shows a little yellow, give people a sign of hope, when the deep winter comes, welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival, it also blooms to welcome the cold of this winter, yellow flowers, as if wrapped in ice, crystal clear, in the new year.
At the same time, the early plum in the garden is also gradually blooming, although the early plum that has just bloomed is still a little shy to answer the pretty branches, but the originally bare branches have become full of spring for a while.
The earliest blooming plum petals are 5 petals, which are white, pink, red and other monochromatic, and the calyx is purple or purple and green. Some varieties of Jiangmei have smaller petals and longer filaments, which can form a beautiful flower pattern with long whiskers. Jiangmei-type plum blossoms are generally one flower and one fruit, and they are the most common plum blossoms.
Speaking of plum blossoms, there are many varieties that can be found in Shanghai, can you name their respective names?
This plum knowledge strategy is given to you who want to appreciate plums
Identification of the variety plum
Breed name:Silver Red Pavilion.
Breed group:Palace powder.
Ornamental features:Flower Path: 15~2.8cm；Flower buds: oblate, with holes in the center, slightly dull purplish-peach, individual stigmas exposed. Flower color: light purple on the front, light purple to slightly intense purple on the back, uneven coloring of the whole flower. Stamens: 2 4, Taige-shaped flower center: There are often Taige (the small flowers mutated into pistils in plum blossoms are called Taige).
Breed name:Hongling two red.
Breed group:Palace powder.
Ornamental features:Flower Diameter: 23（1.6~2.5）cm；Flower buds: oblate to obovate, without holes in the center, peach-red;Flower state: saucer-shaped, petals 5 6, sparsely layered, often with broken petals in the inner layer;Flower color: peach, dark on the back;Pistil: 3 4, underdeveloped;Huaxin: Normal, occasionally with a pavilion.
Breed name:Oriental cinnabar.
Breed group:Cinnabar.
Ornamental features:The large branches are longitudinally mottled, black-purple-brown, the skin pores are large and numerous, and the new xylem in the branches is pale dark purple. Flower buds: Deep rosette-red, oblate to broadly ovate. Flower color: reddish purple, reverse side with front or slightly darker. Flower Diameter: 26（2.4~3.0）cm；Stamens: radiate after being radiated, and the anthers are yellow and purple.
Breed name:Black Feather Jade.
Breed group:Cinnabar.
Ornamental features:New branches and leaves: new shoots purple-red; new leaves purplish-red; Flower Diameter: 21（1.7~2.4）cm；Flower buds: slightly oblate, dark purplish-red, velvety; Flower state: saucer-shaped, petals about 4 layers, layers sparse, the outer petals are slightly turned back, the inner petals are slightly buckled, undulating and flying; Flower color: dark purple on the front, dark purple on the back. The anthers are earthy yellow.
Breed name:Two green calyxes.
Breed group:Green calyx.
Ornamental features:Flower Diameter: 27（2.2~3.2）cm；Flower state: slightly bowl-shaped, petals 3 4 layers, each layer is sparsely stacked, and the edge is often 1 2 buckled inward.
Breed name:Money green calyx.
Breed group:Green calyx.
Ornamental features:Flower diameter: 32-3.8cm；Flower buds: pentagonal oblate, with prominent mesopores, long exposed stigmas; Flower state: saucer-shaped, nearly flattened, the outer petals are unevenly stacked, and the whole flower outline is not very neat. Color: milky white on the front, very light yellow on the back; petals: 40-68, plus calyx petals 10-12; Sepals: 5-6 (more than 6), plus 8-12 calyxes, strong fragrance.
Breed name:Jiang Mei.
Breed group:Jiang Mei.
Ornamental features:Flower Diameter: 22cm；Flower buds: obovate, apical or rounded, without holes in the center, pale milky yellow; The flowers are fragrant.
Breed name:Pale cold red.
Breed group:Jiang Mei.
Ornamental features:Flower Diameter: 24（1.8~2.8）cm；Flower color: very light violet purple on the front, pale to very light violet purple on the back, and the petal color is occasionally uneven; petals: 5, often shallow concave at apex, microwavy at the margins; The flowering period is early and long.
Breed name:Plain White Pavilion.
Breed group:Jade Butterfly.
Ornamental features:Branchlets grayish-green, oblique or straight up; Flower Diameter: 25（2.2~2.9）cm；Flower buds: oblate, with holes in the center, flat apex; Flowers: butterfly-shaped, layered tightly; pistil: 0 3, pavilion-shaped to pavilion; Flower heart: There is a pavilion or a pavilion shape.
Breed name:Three-wheeled jade dish.
Breed group:Jade Butterfly.
Ornamental features:Flower Diameter: 25（2.1~2.6）cm；Flower buds: ovate-oblate, non-porous in the center, pale milky yellow, red at the tip; Flower state: saucer-shaped, the flower wheel is nearly round and neat, the outermost layer is flattened, the inner layer is neat and inward, the petals are 3 layers, and the layers are tightly stacked.
Breed name:Huizhou white water.
Belong to the product group:Jade Butterfly.
Ornamental features:Flower Diameter: 26（2.5~2.7）cm；Flower buds: oblate spherical, with holes in the center, sprinkled with red halo at the apex, stigma exposed; Flower state: shallow bowl to saucer, petals flying, layers sparse; Pistil: degenerate, with a pavilion.
Breed name:After the light abundance.
Breed group:Apricot plum.
Ornamental features:Flower diameter: 31~4.0cm；Flower state: shallow bowl type, the outer petal is slightly turned back, and the inner petal is slightly buckled; Color: Nearly white on the front, very light pink on the back; The perianth is swollen and the flowers are unscented.
Breed name:Bungo.
Breed group:Apricot plum.
Ornamental features:There are 4 5 nectar glands on the petioles. Flower Diameter: 27（2.6~3.0）cm；Flower state: shallow bowl shape, petals are not neat, all flowers are undulating; Sepals: strongly recurved, with a scorched lobe at the apex. The perianth is swollen.
Breed name:Long Youmei.
Breed group:Dragon Tour.
Ornamental features:Tree canopy: scattered and natural, amorphous, like a swimming dragon. Flower Diameter: 26(2.3~2.9)cm；Flower state: saucer-shaped, relatively flattened, petals 4 layers, sparsely layered; Petals: 15 20 (0 2 stamens variable petals), the petal margins are often undulating.
Editor: Zhu Shaoyu.
Source: Century Park, Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau.
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