Toon shoots, known as "vegetables on the branch", are flavorful and nutritious. Toon, a typical seasonal vegetable, is usually picked in March and April every year, that is, before and after the Qingming Festival.

Yesterday, I went to a relative's house, and found that the two toon trees in their yard actually blossomed. Toon blossom, indeed very rare, anyway, I was the first time to see. The flowers on the toon tree a tootling a string, almost every branch is heavy hanging a large string, looking from a distance, white flowers hanging to the ground, the dense small white flowers, seems to make people feel a little strange.

Relatives of the elder brother said, these two trees from last year began to bloom ah, flower flavor is still good to smell, just the size of this rice grain, broken petals is difficult to clean. The sister-in-law of the relative's family took over the conversation and said, "I often heard the old generation say that the blossoming of the toon tree is a good thing, an auspicious omen, which means that the family is safe and has good luck. In addition, I heard that only female toon trees can bloom, usually more male toon trees, female less, so the toon tree bloom is very rare ..."

I have the impression that the toon's progeny reproduction should be two ways, one of the root reproduction, the large toon tree through the capillary network root will grow out of the many small toon seedling; the other is toon Intercepted branches, plug branch reproduction methods; really do not know, the toon tree can also blossom and fruit.

The network said, the toon tree in general to experience eight to nine years to be considered an adult tree, but also only after the maturity of the old toon tree to blossom and fruit. That is to say, in general, less than ten years of toon trees are in the child period, the underage toon tree naturally can not bloom.

This is a factor. Another factor is that: the toon belongs to the terminal inflorescence, its shoots are rich in nutrients, but exactly its top shoots, that is the part we want to eat, (only the first crop of top shoots can bloom every year) generally not to the bloom is eaten by us, so we don't have a chance to see the toon bloom.

So these are the two most basic factors why the flowering phenomenon of toon tree is less common.