Characteristics: clear air gusts, fragrance, intoxicating, people stay.

The twilight of spring: is the lunar calendar in March, according to the solar calendar is now considered the end of April and the beginning of May. It means that the acacia flowers are blooming in April and May.

Acacia flowers have good ornamental value, every time the flowering season, a string of white acacia flowers decorated with branches, the air filled with a light elegant fragrance, refreshing. Ancient poems related to acacia flowers in the Middle Kingdom, such as: "Curling autumn wind more, acacia flowers half into the real" (Bai Juyi, "Autumn Day");

"The wind dances acacia flowers fall in the Royal Gully, and the color of Terminal South Mountain enters the city in the autumn" (Zi Lan, "Chang'an Early Autumn"), which sing the praises of the These poems are about the native Chinese species acacia, not acacia or acacia, which were introduced to China from North America in the second half of the 19th century.

Expanded information:

Acacia flowers are crumpled and curled, with scattered petals. Calyx campanulate, yellowish-green, apex 5-lobed when complete; petals 5, yellow or yellowish-white, 1 larger, suborbicular, apex retuse, remaining 4 oblong. Stamens 10, 9 of them basally united, filaments slender. Pistil terete, curved. Body light. Gas slightly, taste slightly bitter. Hairy acacia with red flowers is not edible.

Acacia (acacia) is a multiple flowers, racemes, butterfly-shaped corolla, in full bloom in clusters, overlapping and hanging. The florets are much wrinkled and curled, the petals are much scattered, the calyx of the intact ones is campanulate, yellowish-green, 5-lobed at the apex; the petals are 5, mostly yellow or yellowish-white, but also other colors such as purplish-red (see picture), usually 1 is larger, suborbicular, with a retuse apex, and the remaining 4 are oblong;

Stamens are 10, of which 9 are united at the base, with slender filaments; the pistil is terete and curved. This entry focuses on the flowers of the leguminous plant Sophora japonica; for an introduction to the plant Sophora japonica, see the entry Sophora japonica; for an introduction to the flower buds of Sophora japonica, see the entry Sophora japonica rice; for other herbs related to Sophora japonica, see Sophora japonica fruit.

Sophora japonica is a deciduous tree, 8-20 m tall, with gray-brown bark, irregular longitudinal fissures, bright yellow inner bark, with a foul smell; shoots dark green-brown, nearly smooth or with short fine hairs, lenticels obvious. Odd-numbered status quo compound leaves, alternate, 15-25cm long, leaf axis hairy, base expanded; leaflets 7-15, stalk ca. 2mm, densely white pubescent; stipules falcate, caducous;

Leaflets ovate-oblong, 2.5-7.5cm long, 1.5-3cm wide, apex acuminate with a fine protuberance, base broadly cuneate, entire, green above, slightly shiny, abaxial surface superior to white short hairs. The upper green, slightly shiny, abaxially eutrophilous with white short hairs. Panicles terminal, 15-30cm long; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; corolla butterfly-shaped, creamy white, flag petals broadly cordate, with short claws, veins purplish, wing petals and keel petals are oblong; stamens 10, separate, unequal;

in the ovary tubular, with fine long hairs, the styles curved. Pods fleshy, bead-like, 2.5-5cm long, yellowish green, glabrous, indehiscent, very finely indented between seeds. Seeds 1-6, reniform, dark brown. Flowering April-May, fruiting October-November.

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