Lantern flower
Chinese name: lantern flower
Latin name: AgapeteslaceiCraib
Alias: Ficus chasteus, golden bell flower, Chinese lantern, Christmas bell
Family: Rhododendron
Genus: Tree radish genus
One, lantern flower morphology
Features
The lantern flower is the most popular flower in China. >
Lantern flower is an evergreen shrub, open-air cultivation plant height of up to 2 meters, potted plants also keep 1 m - 1.5 m, leafy branches, branches of thin soft arching down, the tree tree type tree posture is beautiful. Flower stalks slender, high hanging, stamens out of the corolla outside, flowers such as the palace lantern hanging high.
Morphological characteristics of lantern flower
The flowers only last for about 1 week at each bloom time, and in the upper leafy part of the flower stem will bulge out to look like a wind chime, or like a chime type of flower, the flower's shape is long, about as natural as 7-9 turns of the drooping. The color of the flower is red or orange.
Lanternflower is an epiphytic evergreen shrub, about 1 m tall, with densely bristly branches. Leaves are ovate-lanceolate, nearly fleshy. Inflorescences axillary, subumbellate, corolla tube red, lobes triangular, light green.
Two, lanternflower distribution area
Lanternflower grows in the northern part of western Yunnan, born at an altitude of about 2200m, epiphytic in old trees or rocks. It is also found in northern Myanmar. Lantern flower is native to Brazil, Uruguay and other places in South America. It is cultivated in major cities in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Beijing and Liaoning in China.
Pictures of lantern flowers
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