If you have seen its flowers, you can probably tell that it is a legume, a typical butterfly-shaped flower. There are a lot of legumes, not only we love to eat beans, and, flowering good-looking also a lot of, wisteria is the beauty of the outstanding legumes, the only beautiful curtain of flowers, dream-like drooping in the spring breeze.

In mid-March, when the peach blossom in full swing in Jiangnan, the purple leaf plum colorful, loquat fruit, wisteria vines on the slow growth of lime green spikes buds, it is like a sleepy girl, must sleep to the sun before getting up, although lazy, but not willing to lag behind, as if to sleep in the time missed to make up for the return, began to grow like crazy against the grain, its buds almost every day! It can be seen with the naked eye almost every day, the speed of growth, from green to violet, from violet to deep purple, and then a night of spring breeze, the next morning, full of vine magically floating purple clouds, the wind flowed with the aroma of wisteria, is the girl who woke up late in the grooming.

Wang Zengqi wrote about wisteria in "Connoisseur", and Ye San, who sells fruits, can always say in one sentence where the painter Jitao Min's paintings are good. Once, Ji Taomin painted a picture of wisteria and asked Ye San if it was good, Ye San said, "There is wind in the wisteria," "Well, how do you know?" "The flowers are messy." "That's right!" Ji Taomin penned two words: "Deep courtyard quietly no one, the wind whisked the wisteria flowers are chaotic."

"There is a wind in the wisteria", although it is just a simple sentence, but it seems to be more touching than "no one in the deep courtyard, the wind whisks the wisteria flowers in disarray", the natural flow of the unconscious, the wind is as free as the free and easy. The delicate heart, keen insight, to complete this out of the mouth spontaneous poetry.

Wisteria was first known as the "bean curling vine", which was first published in the Tang Dynasty "Gleanings from the Materia Medica": "Vine skin on the tree, from the heart of the heavy skin. April born purple flowers lovely, Chang'an people also planted decorative court. Jiangdong called for the inviting bean vine. Its seeds for the corner, corner in the kernel, boiled incense in the wine, so that the wine does not fail. Used in the defeat of the wine, but also positive. Its flowers, wipe the wine vinegar white rot."

It is said that more than five officials can plant wisteria at home, I do not know whether it is true, can not be tested.

There is a heritage-level wisteria in the botanical garden, legend has it that it was planted by Wen Zhengming, the famous painter and calligrapher, a 400-year-old tree that has gone through countless vicissitudes of wind and rain and has survived the destruction and reconstruction of the botanical garden, which is a miracle, to say the least. "Flowers and people encounter all kinds of misfortunes, but the long river of life is endless."

Wisteria varieties vary in color and form, such as the Japanese multi-flowered wisteria with larger flowers and longer inflorescences, up to 90 centimeters long. The flower colors are pink and pinkish-white in addition to purple.

"Remote heard on the Bitan, spring evening wisteria open", wisteria is usually open in late spring, this time of year, peach blossom, plum blossom, apricot blossom, begonia flowers in the spring wind curtain, wisteria flowers dress quietly on the scene, "vine flowers without order, ten thousand a time to open", "the vine is not a time to open", the flow, the flow, the flow, the flow, the flow, the flow of the flow. As far as the eye can see, flowing, fluttering, flying, deep and shallow purple, painted into the most bewitching spring colors.

Picture taken in July 2021

The first time I saw the seed pods of wisteria, I was very surprised, one is its size is much larger than the average legume, and the second is its unique texture and feel, if you happen to meet a wisteria seed pods, be sure not to miss it, touch it! You will surely be enamored with the delightful feeling it brings to your fingertips, this special texture is hard to describe, only personally stroked to know, can not be imagined, but also can not be said, must be tried in person.

There was a morning, I stood next to a wisteria tree, touching its seed pods, touching one after another, or feel not addicted, but also brought home a, in addition to like to touch it, but also want to see the seed pods inside the seed grow into what, but let me accidentally happened, it is incredibly strong seed pods, tightly wrapped up inside the seed, and a lot of effort, can not be broken, as if a * * * * Producer's mouth, no matter how much time, no matter what, no matter how long it takes, it is not a good idea, no matter how long it takes, no matter how long it takes. **The mouth of a member of the proletariat, no matter how severely tortured by the Japs, can not pry open their mouths, so that they say the secrets buried in the bottom of the heart.

Finally, the knife plus nine oxen and two tigers to be able to separate the two pieces of tightly embraced together seed pods, unlike the seeds of other leguminous plants, it is also like the shell of the seeds are particularly hard, similar to the texture of coconut shells, shaped a little like a button.

Wisteria stem can be used as a walking stick, excellent flexibility, is a good walking stick, Huang Tingjian poem "do not see the white head of the Zen, empty according to the wisteria cane", wisteria cane once appeared in many poets' verses, it can be seen that people favor it.

The stem is dried to make a walking stick, and the flowers are edible, but special attention needs to be paid to the fact that they must not be eaten directly, because the wisteria flowers have a small poison, and must be cooked and eaten.

Japan has a famous wisteria tunnel, like a dream. That dense purple happiness, only belongs to the earth's spring.

When the wisteria flowers wither and fall to the ground, it is also extremely beautiful.

The small petals spread into a purple flower carpet, will not rot, will not change color, to maintain the original color, such a flower is most suitable for dry flowers, I think the wisteria flowers can be placed in the sun drying for a long time without fading, used to decorate the room is also a good choice.

Wisteria flower language: addicted to love.

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