Habitat:

Mostly deciduous shrubs. To the climate, soil adaptation range is wide. Light-loving, cold-resistant, drought-resistant, grows well on well-drained soil. Flowering period in April.

Morphological features:

Crown ovoid to orbicular, simple leaves alternate, glandular serrate, flowers solitary at the top of the branch or in clusters of 3-6 in umbellate or corymbose inflorescences, borne at the same time as the leaves or after the leaves, calyx tube campanulate or tubular, cultivated varieties are mostly double petal; fruits are red or black, ripe in May-June.

The common cultivated species are:

P.serreulata is a deciduous tree, 15-25m high, with dark chestnut brown, smooth bark. Leaves are ovate or ovate-elliptic, with awned semi-mature teeth on the margin; flowers are white or pink, 2.5-4cm in diameter, flowering in April.

Japanese late cherry blossom (P. lannesiana) is about 10m high, with light gray bark. Leaves obovate, margin with long awn-like teeth; flowers single or double, pendulous, pink or nearly white, fragrant, 2-5 clusters, flowering in April.

Japanese early cherry blossom (P. subhirtella) is a small tree, about 5m high, with transverse bark, old bark braid. Branchlets brown, leaves obovate to ovate-lanceolate. Flowers pink, diameter 2-2.5cm, 2-5 in umbels, blooming in spring before the leaves.

P.sargentii is 12-20m tall, with brown bark, purple-brown branchlets, and elliptic-ovate leaves. Flowers pink, 2-4 clusters, diameter 3-5cm, flowering period March-April.

Yunnan cherry blossom (P. cerosoides) is about 10m high, bark brown, branchlets purple-brown, leaves elliptic-ovate or obovate, margin with heavy teeth. Flowers pink to deep red, 2-5 clusters, flowering February-March.

P.majestica is about 25m tall, with light brown bark, green branchlets, long elliptic to lanceolate leaves, pink flowers, flowering from January to January.

2. Peach Blossom

Flowering period March-April, fruit ripe June-September. Varieties are crimson. Crimson. Pure white and red and white mixed color variations of flower color, as well as double and double petal species.

The peach blossom is a deciduous tree. The leaves are elliptic-lanceolate with coarsely serrated margins, glabrous, and petioles 1-1.5cm long. The flowers are solitary, open before the leaves, sessile, pink, and 5-merous.

3. Egg flower

Flowering period May-October.

Eggplant has degenerative sexual reproduction and is mostly unfruitful. Deciduous shrub or small tree. Branchlets plump and succulent. Leaves are large, thickly papery, mostly clustered at the top of branches, with veins joining into a single side vein near the leaf margin. Flowers several clustered at the top of branches, corolla tube-shaped, diameter about 5-6 cm, 5-lobed, outside creamy white, center bright yellow, very fragrant. Eggplant blooms in summer, with an elegant fragrance; after the leaves fall, the bare trunk bends naturally, and its shape is very beautiful. Suitable for planting in gardens and lawns, and can also be grown in pots. The flowers are fragrant and can be used as a spice, or dried for making beverages, or for medicinal purposes.

4. Saffron Mullein

Evergreen tree Flowering in May-June, fruiting in August-September.

Morphological features:

Evergreen tree, up to 30 m tall, 40-60 cm in diameter at breast height; bark gray, smooth; branchlets gray-brown, with conspicuous stipular rings and lenticels, young branchlets rust-colored or yellow-brown pilose, later becoming glabrous. Leaves leathery, oblanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 10-26 cm long, 3-10 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base cuneate, entire, slightly revolute, green above, glabrous, pale green below, midrib pilose, lateral veins 12-24 pairs; petiole 2-5 cm long; Flowers fragrant, solitary at branch apex; tepals 9-12, outer whorl 3-obovate-oblong, ca. 7 cm, yellow-green, reddish ventrally, inner whorl reddish or yellowish-white, obovate-spatulate, 5-7 cm; stamens 1-1.8 cm, filaments subequal to connective; gynoecium terete, ovary glabrous, pedicel ca. 1.5-2 cm. 1.5-2 cm. Aggregate fruit ovate-oblong, 5-10 cm long.

5. Mountain magnolia

Evergreen tree.

Morphological features:

Bark gray-green, rough, cracked. Branchlets densely hairy, with punctate lenticels. Leaves leathery, elliptic-ovate or long ovate, apex rounded-obtuse, base rounded, surface dark green, abaxially covered with white powder and sparse hairs. Flowers solitary at branch apex, creamy white, petals plump, fragrant. Aggregate fruit ovate terete, follicles woody.

6. Paeonia, flowering April-May.

Perennial rooted herb, about 1 meter high. With fusiform tuberous roots, and underground stems produce new shoots, new shoots in the early spring out of the ground. The first leaves red, stem base often have scale-like deformed leaves, the central compound leaves two back three, leaflets rectangular or lanceolate, branch tips of the gradual small or into a single leaf. Flowers large and beautiful, fragrant, solitary at the top of branches; petals white, pink, red, purple or red.

7. Red plantain Blooms in summer and fall, and the flowering period is quite long.

The form of the plant is similar to banana, only slightly thin. The pseudostem is 1-2 meters tall. Leaves are oblong. Leaf surface yellowish green, leaf back yellowish green. Inflorescences arising from leaf axils, erect, bracts bright red outside, pink inside bracts slightly yellow. Each bract bears 3-4 yellow flowers arranged in spikes. The flowers are followed by berries, which are extremely seedy and inedible.

8. leek orchid

Lee orchid plant height of about 15-30 cm, clumps of plants. Leaf blade linear, very similar to leeks. Flowering stem from the leaf cluster, petals 6. Chives orchid flower shape is larger, pink, slightly curved petals; small leek orchid is a rich peach color, each bulb of the adult plant can bloom, clustered flower clusters, colorful in the sun, a thousand beautiful, people love. Chives orchid flowering period April-September; small leek orchid flowering summer about May-August.

9.Lone flower

Perennial herbs. Underground bulb fat spherical. Leaves adhering to the top of the scorching stem, 4-8 in two rows of iterative, banded thick, flowers and leaves together, or a few days after the leaves are drawn scape, scape thick, erect, hollow, higher than the leaf clusters. Inflorescence subumbellate, each scape bearing 2-6 flowers, flowers larger, funnel-shaped, red or with white stripes, or white with red and purple stripes, flowering period April-June. Fruit spherical

10.dry gold lotus

For slightly fleshy herb, often cultivated as a 1-year-old or 2-year-old herb, the stem is slender, fleshy hollow, semi-trailing or tilted, grayish-green, up to 1.5 meters long; flowering: spring sowing in July-September, fall sowing in February-March. Under the condition of suitable climate, it can bloom all year round. Fruit pale white-green, the surface of the many longitudinal grooves, seeds kidney-shaped, 1,000 grains weighing 125-143 grams, germination power of more than 5 years.

11.Chinese Dianthus

Biennial herb, plant height 15-50cm, stem smooth, erect, softer, more branches, clumping strong, node expansion. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, sessile, veins obvious. Flowers solitary, or several clusters into cymes, calyx cylindrical, petals 5, flowers red, pink and white, bracts linear, flowering April-May, capsule rectangular, fruit ripening May-June.

12.Chinese Stone Garlic

Leaves emerge in spring and then wither and go dormant in early summer, flowering in late summer and early fall.

Leaf blade broadly linear, dark green, flowers yellow, perianth tube 1.7-2.5 cm long.

13. Nail orchid

Stem stout, leaf fleshy, biseriate, about 20cm long, narrowly moment rounded, apically unequally 2-lobed, base jointed and enlarged into a sheath. Raceme scape axillary, pendulous, unbranched. Corolla orange-red, fragrant, labellum 3-lobed, with upward spur. Fl. from July to September.

14. Sclerotium Lingxiao

Branches slender, often with small verrucous projections. Oddly pinnately compound, leaves opposite, leaflets 7-9, margins serrate. Racemes terminal. Corolla funnelform, slightly curved, orange-red to bright red. Capsule linear. Flowering period June-October.

15.Nightfall money

Flowering period July-October

Annual herb, plant height 50-80cm. stem erect, few branches. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, base trilobed, margin obtusely serrate. Flowers 1-2 axillary, pedicellate, about 3cm in diameter, drooping when opening, petals 5, flowers open at noon, the next morning before the petals of the stamens fall off, corolla shaped like money. Flowers large red.

16. Cyclamen

Flowering period from October to April.

Cyclamen tubers are oblate or spherical, fleshy. Leaf blade from the top of the tuber, heart-shaped, ovate or kidney-shaped, leaf margin serrulate, leaf surface green, with white or gray halo spots, leaf back green or dark red, petiole longer, reddish brown, fleshy. Flowers solitary at the top of the flower stem, flowers pendulous, petals upward reflexed, especially like rabbit ears; flowers have white, pink, rose, red, purple red, snow green and other colors, the base often with crimson spots; petal edges are varied, there are entire, notched, wrinkled and wavy and other shapes. There are many horticultural varieties, according to the shape of the flower can be (1) large-flowered type: large flowers, petals rimmed, spreading, revolutions, there are single, heavy, fragrant varieties. (2) flat petal type: petals spreading, revolute, edge with fine notch and wrinkles, more pointed buds, narrower petals. (3) Rococo type: the flowers are half-open and pendulous; the petals are not reflexed, wider, with corrugated and finely notched edges. The buds are rounded at the top and the flowers are fragrant. Leaf margins are conspicuously serrated. (4) Wrinkled edge type

17.Western Chamomile

Flowering and fruiting period May-July.

Stem erect, 30-40cm high, much branched in the upper part. Leaves 2-pinnatisect, sessile, lobes striped. Heads, 1-1.5cm in diameter, arranged in a corymb at the top of the branches, ligulate flowers in 1 series, white, tubular flowers mostly, yellow, 5-lobed.

18.Forget-me-not

Natural flowering period March to May.

Perennial herb. The plant is about 60 to 110 centimeters tall. Whole plant with fine hairs. Leaves clustered; leaf blade ca. 25 cm; inflorescence branches with 3 to 5 wings; capsule. Seeds tiny.

19.Spanish Iris

Flowering in May

Bulbs. A species of iris (bulbous iris). Bulb ovoid, brownish lenticels, ca. 3 cm in diameter. Leaves linear, y grooved, pinkish green. Scape erect, terminal 1--2 flowers. Flowers blue-purple. Capsule, 3-angled.

20. Blossom

Flowering period June-October

Perennial evergreen shrubs, stems erect, branched, the main stem terete, new branches flattened, leafy, green, long broad elliptic, midrib firm and margins corrugated, nodes on the upper, the leaves faded, the flowers are attached to the nodes, larger, the corolla tube is very large, with a number of appendages, purplish-red, the tube is pendulous when open, the flowers are pure, the flowers are cocked, the corolla tube is very large, with many appendages, purple-red, when open, the tube is pendulous, the flowers are pure. The flowers are pure white and show a light purplish-red color when they are shed, and they are fragrant.

21. Begonia

Flowering period is very long, almost all year round can bloom, but to the end of the fall, winter and spring more abundant.

Leaves are ovoid, irregularly notched at the leaf margins, and finely tomentose. Leaf color varies according to species, with green, red, brown-green and other colors, and waxy luster. Flowers are terminal or axillary, dioecious, and the female flowers have an inverted triangular ovary. Flower color has orange-red, peach, pink, white, etc.

22.Beauty azalea

Flowering period in April-May, fruiting period in September-October.

Leaves are thickly leathery, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, apex acute or obtuse-rounded, base cuneate, margin slightly revolute, surface bright green, abaxially light green. Terminal short racemose umbel with 15-30 flowers; pedicel stout, red; corolla broadly bell-shaped, red or pink to white. Capsule long terete to oblong-elliptic.

23.Willow Orchid

Flowering June-August

Rootstock thick, slightly woody. Stem erect, usually unbranched. Leaves alternate, simple, sessile, long lanceolate, subentire. Racemes long spikelike, borne on top of the stem. Flowers large and numerous, reddish purple. Capsule threadlike.

24.Water lily

Flowering period July-August, fruit spherical, fruit ripening period August-September.

Aquatic

Rootstock short, erect. Leaves are rounded peltate, leathery, green on the surface, purple-red on the back, floating on the water surface. Flowers are white, red, pink, yellow, blue, purple and its intermediate colors, flowers also float on the water surface

25.Lingxiao

Flowering period July ~ August. Capsule elongated like a pod, maturing in October.

Deciduous woody vine with aerial roots. Bark gray-brown, with longitudinal grooves. Leaves opposite pinnately compound, leaflets 7~9 branches, long ovate. Cymose panicles, flowers funnelform-campanulate, orange-red outside, bright red inside.

26. Honeysuckle

Flowering April-June, fruiting July-October

Semi-evergreen climbing shrub, young branches densely pilose and glandular hairs, pith small hollow. Leaves ovate to long ovate, 3-8 cm long, 1.5-4 cm wide, apically acuminate or obtuse, base subcordate or rounded, both surfaces hairy when young, surface glabrous with age; petiole 5 mm long; flowers in axillary pairs, bracts leaflike, up to 2 cm long, bracteoles free, ca. 1 mm long; calyx tube glabrous, corolla 3-4 cm long, pilose and glandular hairy outside, first white or slightly purplish spotted and then turning yellow, very fragrant, two-lipped, upper lip with 4 lobes. labiate, upper lip with 4-lobed teeth and erect, lower lip reversed, corolla tube several lobes as long as lobes; stamens shorter than style, projecting beyond corolla. Fruit black when ripe.

27.Round-leaved petunia

Flowering period June---October

Lianas

Seedling cotyledons nearly square, apex y concave notch up to cotyledon l/3. Adults covered with hirsute hairs all over. Stem twining, much branched. Leaves alternate and long-stalked. Leaf blade cordate, apex pointed or obtuse, base cordate, entire. Inflorescences with 1-5 flowers, total flower then nearly as long as petiole, 5 sepals, ovate to lanceolate, apex obtuse-acute, base hirsute; corolla funnelform, red, blue-purple, or nearly white, apex 5-lobed; 5 stamens; stigma capitate. Capsule globose. Seeds obovate, black to dark brown, surface rough. Twining herb, with flowers of white, peach-red, cordial purple, and violet,