1. Hibiscus flowers generally bloom from August to October. In this season, it is the time when hibiscus flowers bloom most prosperously. The hibiscus is the city flower of Chengdu, and its flowering period is from August to October; the lotus has always been called the "water hibiscus", and its flowering period is from June to September; the albizia tree is also called the fan tree, and its flowering period is June. When does June Snow bloom?
2. Hibiscus flowers are white or light red when they bloom in the morning, and dark red when they bloom from noon to afternoon. People call this color change of hibiscus "three drunken hibiscus" and "colorful hibiscus". The petals of some hibiscus flowers are half silver-white and half pink or purple. People call this hibiscus flower "Mandarin Duck Hibiscus".
3. Economic value: The main value of hibiscus flower is economic value. Its stem bark contains 39% cellulose. The stem bark fiber is flexible, water-resistant, white, flexible, and water-resistant, and can be used for textiles and linen making. Substitutes and raw materials, it can also be used in paper making, etc. The ancients also used hibiscus flowers to pound the juice into pulp and dye silk to make tents, which is the famous "hibiscus tent".
4. Edible value: Hibiscus flowers can also be cooked in soup, which is soft and refreshing. The petals can be made into hibiscus chicken slices with chicken. Hibiscus flower porridge can be cooked with japonica rice. It can also be mixed with flour. Put them together, fry them in a pan, and then simmer them with cartilage in soup. Boiled with bamboo shoots, it can be made into snow cloud soup. Hibiscus flowers are a very good delicacy. It can also be fried and eaten, which is also very delicious.
5. Medicinal value: clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and draining pus, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Used for cough due to lung heat, menorrhagia, leucorrhea; external use to treat carbuncles, sores, mastitis, lymphadenitis, mumps, burns, snake bites, bruises.