The difference between Bauhinia and Sheep's Foot Armor is:
1, Bauhinia is Sheep's Foot Armor: Bauhinia is also known as Palace Powder Sheep's Foot Armor, Sheep's Foot Armor, so Bauhinia and Sheep's Foot Armor are actually saying the same thing, just called differently.
2, the distribution is not the same: Bauhinia is distributed in China's Yellow River Basin, as well as India and the Central and Southern Peninsula. Bauhinia is distributed in southeastern China, north to Hebei, south to Guangdong, Guangxi, west to Yunnan, Sichuan, northwest to Shaanxi, east to Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces and regions.
3, the color is not the same: Bauhinia flowers purple-red or pink. Bauhinia is purple-red or light red, mixed with yellow-green and dark purple mottled.
4, growth habit is not the same: Bauhinia habit of light, not very hardy, like fertile, moist soil, avoid waterlogging. Bauhinia warm belt species, more cold hardy. Light-loving, slightly shade-tolerant. Prefer fertile, well-drained soil, do not tolerate moisture.
Expanded Information
Bauhinia's flowers are purplish-red or pink, more than 2-10 in bunches, clustered on the old branches and the main trunk, especially on the main trunk of the bouquets of flowers, the more to the upper part of the young and tender branches, the fewer the flowers, usually before the leaves to open, but the flowers on the shoots or young plants at the same time as the leaves to open, the flowers are 1-1.3 cm long; the pedicel length of 3-9 mm; keel petals at the base of the petals are 3-9 mm. The flowers are 1-1.3 cm long; the pedicels are 3-9 mm long; the base of the keel is mottled with dark purple; the ovary is young and green, shiny and glabrous in bud, then densely pubescent, with 6-7 ovules.
Pods compressed narrowly oblong, green, 4-8 cm long, 1-1.2 cm wide, wings ca. 1.5 mm wide, apex acute or shortly acuminate, rostrum fine and curved, base long acuminate, bilateral sutures symmetric or nearly so; neck 2-4 mm long; 2-6 seeds, broadly oblong, 5-6 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, black-brown, shiny. Fl. March-April; fr. Aug-Oct.
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