Written by reporter Ji Jingjing and edited by Chen Yongjie.
New**Editor: Ji Xiumei, American editor: Chai Qingyan.
The fragrance of flowers is strong! Today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, in this joyful festival, in addition to the indispensable New Year's goods, the festive and bright New Year's flowers as the "atmosphere group" of the New Year's New Year, with auspicious, prosperous, wishful, good luck, fortune, prosperity, hope and other beautiful meanings, the north and south of the country to buy New Year's flowers preferences are different, what flowers do you love to buy for the New Year?
This year is the Year of the Dragon, so the New Year's flowers with "dragon" in their names are also standing in the C position "Dragon" to make a comeback, so let's take a look at them first!
Red Fire Dragon Boat Flower.
Rubiaceae, dragon boat flower plant, also known as elixir flower, zinnia. Its plant shape is beautiful, the flowering is dense, the flower color is rich, and the flowering period is long. The color of the flowers is red and fiery, and the flowers are clustered to form a thriving scene, which looks auspicious and festive.
Phnom Penh Chinese dragon orchid.
The Phnom Penh Chinese Dragon Orchid is a special orchid variety characterized by the thin edges of the petals that appear golden or golden. It represents a breakthrough in the field of orchid breeding and has a high collection value.
The jade butterfly dragon swims in the plum.
The ornamental varieties of plum blossoms are mainly straight-branched, and there are very few weeping plum varieties and Longyou plum varieties. Among them, there is only one variety of Longyou plum variety group, "Jade Butterfly Longyou". Its flower color is milky white, warm and moist like jade. It is a small tree of the genus Prunus in the Rosaceae family, 2 3 meters high, with naturally twisted branches and a naturally curved crown, like a swimming dragon.
The jade-faced vermilion-lipped dragon spits beads.
When the dragon spit pearl has not yet bloomed, the white sepals "spit out" red spherical flower buds, which resemble silver dragon spit pearls; The buds then bloom, revealing white stamens; After fruiting, the white sepals turn purplish-red, and the black and shiny fruit is set off, which is particularly ornamental.
I'm here to send New Year's greetings
After seeing these beautiful New Year flowers, do you know how many plants with "dragon" in their names are?
In the new year, we use the plant with "dragon" in the name to spell a "dragon" for everyone, wishing everyone a prosperous year of the dragon and everything is prosperous "dragon".
Longan".
Longan is a traditional fruit in China. If you cut the longan, the yellow peel, translucent aril, and black seeds together create an eye-like appearance. The fleshy aril indicates that longan, like lychee, belongs to the Sapindaceae family. After the longan is dried, it becomes commonly known as "longan".
Dragon's beard" dish. 
Rhizopus spp., a genus of the family Rhodaceae, is known for its economic importance as an agar plant and its use as food for humans and various shellfish, and grows along the coast of Shandong Province and Taiwan Province in China.
Dragon's tongue "Orchid." 
Agave is a large family of more than 300 species, all native to the Americas. They are characterised by their hard, thick leaves arranged in a spiral arrangement on short stems, which makes many agave plants famous ornamental plants.
Dragon's tooth "grass." 
Dragon's tooth grass, also known as crane grass and ground fairy grass, is the common name of the perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Rosaceae, and is named because the newly grown shoots at its roots resemble the teeth of the dragon in people's imagination.
Aromatic "dragon face" flowers.
The corolla side lobes of aromatic longan flower extend to both sides, and the base of the lower lobe zigzags upwards to form a sac, which closely fits the base of the upper lobe, forming a shape similar to that of a dragon's face. The role is to force pollinators into the corolla to assist in flower pollination.
Tokyo "dipterocarp" incense.
The national first-class protected plant Tokyo dipterocarp is a tree, which is produced in the southeast and west of Yunnan Province in China, and grows in the humid valley rainforest and lime mountain dense forest. It is about 45 meters tall and is characterized by axillary racemes and pink petals.
Dragon scales "Spring Feather."
Spring feather is a tropical foliage plant of the family Araceae, native to the Brazilian region, prefers warm and humid environments all year round, and its plants can grow up to 1 2 meters tall as long as the environment is suitable. The main trunk at the bottom of the spring feather grows taller, and the leaves at the bottom keep falling off, forming a very unique "old pile" that looks like dragon scales, so some people call it "dragon scales" or "dragon scale spring feathers".
The keel is a keel from Africa, straight, spiny, triangular in cross-section, resembling the backbone of a dragon. However, be careful, as a member of the Euphorbia genus, the white juice in its body is irritating, so don't climb it at will.
Dragon's Blood "tree." In its native region of West Africa, the dragon's blood tree can grow into a huge tree that is more than ten meters high, and its trunk will form dark red imprints when injured, which is considered "dragon's blood". Thanks to the efforts of horticulturists, the exotic giant trees have been transformed into delicate potted plants that decorate our lives.
The color of the gentian flower is an elegant blue-purple, it grows at an altitude of 400 meters to 1700 meters, and is known as the world's three major alpine flowers together with rhododendrons and primroses. There are more than 240 species of gentian genera in China, which are mostly produced in the southwest alpine areas, and there are only a few species around Beijing.
Dragon's claw "Jujube." Named because the branches twist and circle, resembling dragon claws, it is an ornamental variety with a peculiar branch shape in the jujube tree family. Its tree shape is beautiful, with green leaves in summer and beautiful red fruits in autumn, especially in winter, the twisted branches after falling leaves are like a group of dragons flying, which is unique among all kinds of ornamental flowers and trees. Longclaw jujube is native to Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi and other countries in China.
Chinese stone "dragon tail".
The name is very domineering, but in fact, the flowers are very small, and they mostly grow near the water or in the wetlands at the edge of the fields. herbaceous, with slender stems, submerged parts** or several**; The airborne part is 6-40 cm long; The corolla is 6-10 mm long, purplish-blue or pink. The capsule is nearly spherical and flattened on both sides. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to January. It is produced in southern Fujian, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi and Yunnan in China.
*: Beijing Science and Technology News.
The article is synthesized from the official website of Shanghai Botanical Garden, the official website of Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, "Guangzhou Panyu Release", Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China Plant Image Library.