Single-petaled dogtooth flower. Gouyahua

Ervatamia divaricata (scientific name: Ervatamia divaricata (L.) Burk. cv. Gouyahua) is also known as white dogtooth, lion flower and tofu flower. Cymbidium is a shrub of the Apocynaceae family, usually up to 3 meters high. Except for the cilium on the sepals, the rest is hairless. The branches and twigs are grey-green with lenticels and vertical stripes when dry. The internodes are 1.5-8 cm long. The leaves are firm and papery, elliptical or elliptical-oblong, short acuminate, cuneate at the base, 5.5-11.5 cm long, 1.5-3.5 cm wide, dark green on the surface and light green on the underside; the corolla is white, and the corolla tube is 2 years long. cm; the stamens are inserted below the middle part of the corolla tube; the style is 11 mm long, and the stigma is obovoid. Follicles are 2.5-7 cm long, extremely forked or curved; seeds are 3-6, oblong. Corolla double. The flowering period is from June to November, and the fruiting period is in autumn.