In my memory, when I was a child walking on this road, it seems that the summer has never been the sun, the acacia trees are tall and dense canopy like an umbrella to block the strong sun. This road is actually very long, before and after the extension of dozens of kilometers, the road on both sides of the acacia has been planted dozens of kilometers. I later learned that this road was once the longest acacia road in Beijing. Unfortunately, the road disappeared because of repeated traffic planning.
In the spring, walking on the acacia road, looking at the green leaves and new shoots coming out of the treetops day by day, every day the tree is different, every day than yesterday more green. The ovate acacia leaves grow in pairs, with 7 or 8 pairs of leaves on each small branch. When the tree is full of leaves, each small branch looks like a green feather, trembling in the wind and flashing lightly in the sun.
By April, stars of white begin to appear on the trees, which are acacia flowers. By the end of April, it is the most beautiful time of the acacia tree, white acacia flowers covered the top of the tree, the top of the tree can not be loaded, will be a string of a string hanging down. The first thing you need to do is to get a good look at the car, and then you can see that the car is not in the car, but it's in the car.
I love this time of year, I love walking on the acacia road at this time of year. I love this time of year, I love to walk on the acacia road at this time of the year. My memories of acacia trees are memories with the scent of acacia flowers.
I grew up to know that the original acacia flowers can also be eaten. After washing the acacia flowers, you can wrap the flour or steamed or fried, you can do with the noodles and together with the acacia cake, you can scramble eggs, you can do stuffing dumplings, you can also be dried to make tea ...... Unfortunately, when I know these, the roadside acacia tree acacia flowers are not as clean as when I was a child, and I've got nothing to go on to pick up acacia flowers to try! These practices have been.
In summer, walking on the acacia road is a bit of a problem, there is often a line of "hanging ghosts" from the sky. "Hanging ghost" is a about 2 centimeters long green flesh bugs, like silkworms will spit silk, will pull the silk from the tree hanging down. Walking under the acacia tree, a "hanging ghost" often suddenly appears in front of you, scaring people. If it falls on your body, it will give you goosebumps, and you will be too busy to pull the bugs off your body. Even more disgusting is that you found underfoot stepped on a "hanging ghost" ......
In the fall, the acacia tree began to bear seeds, the seeds look a little like pods, but also a string of a string. The seeds of the acacia tree are not broken okay, broken will have mucus out, get in the clothes is not good to wash, the taste is not good.
On the sixth grade, the school organized students to pick tree seeds to support the greening of the Great Northwest, a large part of the tree seeds are acacia tree seeds. After the collection of seeds, the school organized the students to peel the seeds. Peeling the seeds is more troublesome, first of all, water will be soaked in the outer skin of the tree seeds soft rotten, and then we will be inside the pods of the seeds peeled out and cleaned.
The class was divided into several groups, surrounded by a large iron pot to peel those soaked overnight acacia tree seeds. The water in the large basin soaked overnight tree seeds has been very disgusting, some naughty boys see the girls disgusted expression, simply use their hands to lift the water in the basin up to the girls body. They were especially happy when they saw the girls screaming and dodging. I had just put on a new dress that day, and I got covered in dirty water just like that. I was chagrined to go home, and was severely criticized by my mother, saying that I do not care about clothes, let me take off the clothes and wash them, and do not let me wear this dress again.
Probably because of this reason, so every time I see the seeds of the acacia tree, I do not like it very much.
In winter, the leaves of the acacia trees are falling off, without the cover of the leaves, the birds hitching a ride on the treetops of the bird's nest exposed, usually magpie's nest. When I walk on the road, I hear "chirping" above my head, and look up to see magpies standing on the branch next to their nests, their tails twitching, I can't help but be in a good mood. The magpies are chirping, something good is happening.
Attached, Baidu encyclopedia on the acacia tree's introduction:
The acacia tree, dicotyledonous plant class, legume family, acacia genus, native to North America's tree species, A.D. 1601 on the introduction of Europe, the A.D. 1877 after the introduction of China, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong thirteen years (1748) of the "涿 county Zhi", "Gao Yang County Zhi," "Huai'an County Zhi" have the introduction of acacia records. It is popular because of its strong adaptability, fast growth, easy reproduction and wide use.
The acacia tree is light-loving, preferring a warm and humid climate, and is a deciduous tree, 10-20 meters high. Bark gray-black brown, longitudinal split; branches with stipular needles, hard wood, is a very good construction of forest trees. The current year's branches are green and glabrous. Leaves pinnately compound up to 25 cm; leaflets 4-7 pairs, opposite or nearly alternate, papery, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong. Flowers are white, fragrant, spikes; acacia flowers are edible, and acacia produces very sweet honey and high honey yields. The fruits are pods with 4 to 10 seeds in each pod.