Scientific/Latin name lavandula pedunculata
English name Lavender
Alias perfume plant, primrose, vanilla, yellow vanilla
Family Genus
Border: Botanical Plantae
Phylum: Angiosperms Magnoliophyta
Organism: Dicotyledonous Magnoliopsida
Organism: Lamiales
Family: Lamiaceae
Genus: Lavandula
Floral language: Chinese: Waiting for love; English: Waiting for love; Japanese: 愛のために待機中; Korean: ?1?7?9?6?3?5 ?8?5?9?9 ?0?5?0?5?1?9
ColorsBlue, Purple, Blue-Purple, Pink, White
Distribution of Origins
Originally native to Mediterranean coasts, Europe, and Oceania, such as the towns of Provence and Pays d'Or, and later the town of Lavandula, in the south of France. It was widely planted in Britain and Yugoslavia, and is now widely planted in Tennessee of the United States and Hokkaido of Japan.
The northern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang and France's Provence is located in the same latitude zone, and similar climatic conditions and soil conditions, is a lavender planting base, is China's lavender hometown, Xinjiang's lavender has been included in the world's eight well-known varieties. Sex like dry, flower shape such as wheat spikes, with a slender stem, flowers covered with star-shaped hairs, the end of a small purple-blue flowers, long narrow leaves gray-green, adult plants can reach a height of 90cm, usually bloom in June. When the wind blows, a whole field of lavender looks like a deep purple wave undulating up and down, very beautiful.
[edit]Morphological features
Lavender perennial or dwarf shrub, although called grass, is actually a small purple-blue flowers. Lavender clumps, multi-branched, common for the upright growth, plant height according to the variety of 30 ~ 40 cm, 45 ~ 90 cm, in the mountainous areas at a fairly high altitude, a single plant can grow up to 1 m. The plant height is 30 ~ 40 cm, 45 ~ 90 cm, in the mountainous areas at a fairly high altitude, a single plant can grow up to 1 meter. Leaves alternate, elliptic lanceolate leaves, or leaf surface larger needle-shaped, leaf margin revolute. Spikes terminal, 15-25 cm long; corolla lower tube, upper lip-shaped, upper lip 2-lobed, lower lip 3-lobed; flowers about 1.2 cm long, blue, deep purple, pink, white and other colors, common purple-blue, flowering period June-August. The whole plant is slightly woodsy sweet light aroma, because the flowers, leaves and stems on the villi are hidden oil glands, gently touch the oil glands will rupture and release the fragrance.
Myosotis sylvatica
Chinese Name Forget-me-not or Don't-forget-me
Classification Comfrey Family, Comfreyaceae
Alias Starflower, Bloodwort, Forsythia, / (i.e. Starflower) A heart that never changes.
Cut Flower Main Characteristics: Simple to handle after harvesting, suitable for fresh cut flowers or dried flowers.
Ecological habits: prefer dry, cool climate, avoid hot and humid, light-loving, drought-resistant, growing temperature of 20 ℃ -25 ℃. Suitable for growth in loose, fertile, well-drained slightly alkaline soil.
Cutting stage of development: in most of the flowers open and colorful when cut; can also be cut at an earlier stage, and then use a preservative containing gibberellin to promote the opening.
Exterior characteristics Native to Eurasia. Perennial herb, leaves alternate, narrowly oblanceolate or striped oblanceolate. Sun-loving, shade-tolerant, easy to self-seed propagation. Forget-me-not flowers are small and beautiful, blue flowers in the center of a circle of yellow stamens, the color scheme is harmonious and eye-catching, especially the volume of umbels with the opening of the flowers gradually elongated, half-contained, half-exposed, love, unforgettable.
One- and two-year-old herbaceous plants, stems 10~50cm high, especially in the wild state, especially small and slender, flowers mixed blue. There are variants of white-flowered forget-me-not and red-flowered forget-me-not. Young men and women give each other forget-me-nots to express deep affection.