The other side of the flower and the mandala is not the same, they have the same thing is the name is very nice, but also have a very mysterious legend. Both have a connection with Buddhism, mandala is one of the four famous flowers of Buddhism. The other side of the flower is also known as Manju Shahua, is the "Dharma Sutra" in one of the four flowers. All are poisonous, and legend has it that the seeds of the mandala are the most poisonous thing.
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Morphological differences between the Pittosporum and the Mandragora:
1, the Pittosporum: the saffron stonecrop is a perennial herbaceous plant with a bulb that is subglobose, with a purple-brown outer film, 1-3 centimeters in diameter. Leaves are narrowly banded, about 15 centimeters long and 0.5 centimeters wide, with an obtuse, dark green tip and a pinkish-green band in the middle. Umbels terminal, flowering stems ca. 30 cm tall, bright red. Flowering in August-September, fruiting in October.
2, mandarins: mandarins are wild erect woody annual herbs of the Solanaceae family, 0.5-1.5 meters high, stout, terete stems, light green or purple, the lower part of the woody. The leaves are alternate, the upper part is opposite, the leaf blade is ovate or broadly ovate, the tip is acuminate. Flowers solitary between branch forks or in leaf axils, erect, shortly pedicellate, calyx tubular, 4-5 cm long, corolla funnel-shaped, lower half greenish, upper white or lavender. Capsule erect, ovoid, 3~4.5 cm long, 2~4 cm in diameter, surface bearing hard needles or sometimes without spines and nearly smooth, yellowish when mature.