Warm winds blowing all over the barbarian flowers, sea and sky more heroic trees, hot clouds a corner, broken Xia ten miles, fire beads spit. The floss floss has no merit, but the technique of returning it to the bottle, and it is difficult to peer with the recipe of Fang. I think the building high toward the Han, red heart to the sun, Prime a cover, Linjiangzhu.

Reading through the rise and fall of no evidence, for years and years, Dongjun master. Jiangshan is still the same, Liu Lang does not return, the setting sun fluttering. The Li ripening is still late, the maple burns have been exhausted, colorful markers held high. For the spring is too pale, sweet open full, small rainbow bridge road.

Mr. Chen Yongzheng, a recent writer, discusses this word in his History of Lingnan Literature, noting that "Li Qiqing was one of the earlier ones when he referred to the kapok as the 'Heroic Tree'." --This is probably true, the Chinese Dictionary "Heroic Tree" entry is quoted in Liu Yazi's poem as an example, and Li Qiqing this word was written in the Guangxu period, seems to be earlier than Liu's poem.

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Morphological characteristics of cottonwood

Deciduous large trees. Up to 25 meters tall, with grayish-white bark, the trunks of young trees usually have cone-shaped thick spines; branches spreading.

Palmately compound leaves, leaflets 5-7, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 10-16 cm long, 3.5-5.5 cm wide, apical acuminate, base broad or attenuate, entire, both surfaces are glabrous, pinnate lateral veins 15-17 pairs, uplifted, between which there is a thinner class 2 lateral veins, reticulate veins are very fine and densely packed, both surfaces are slightly raised; petiole 10-20 cm long; petiolules 1.5-4 centimeters; stipules small.

Flowers solitary in apical leaf axils of branches, usually red, sometimes orange-red, ca. 10 cm in diam.; calyx cup-shaped, 2-3 cm long, outside glabrous, inside densely covered with yellowish short sericeous hairs, calyx teeth 3-5, semiorbicular, 1.5 cm high, 2.3 cm wide, petals fleshy, obovate-oblong.

8-10 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, both surfaces stellate pilose, but inner surface sparser; staminal tube short, filaments thicker, base thick, tapering upward, filaments of inner whorl partly bifurcate at upper portion, 10 stamens shorter in middle, not bifurcated, outer whorl of stamens numerous, integrated into 5 bundles, each bundle of filaments more than 10, longer; style longer than stamens. Flowering period March to April.

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