English name of rapeseed: rape
Rapeseed: rape seed
Alias: Brassica rapa
Cruciferae, genus Brassica.
Cruciferae is a dicotyledonous plant. Annual or perennial herbs. Basal leaves convolute, stem leaves, usually alternate, without stipules. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, petals 4, arranged in a cross, stamens usually 6, 4 long and 2 short, often called "four strong stamens", pistil consists of two carpels, the ovary position is up. The stem is cylindrical, much branched; the leaves are alternate, large, intensely green, without petiole and stipules. In March and April, the stem tips are flowered in racemes of four sepals, yellowish-green, and the corolla is four-petaled, yellow, and cruciform. The fruit is a long-horned fruit, to summer, when ripe, cracked and scattered seeds, purple-black, also yellow. Widely cultivated in China, with the Yangtze River basin and south of the most everywhere. Cross-shaped flowers are one of the plant characteristics of the cruciferous family, cabbage and cabbage and many other vegetables are relatives of rape.
Canola is native to Europe and Central Asia, and botanically belongs to the annual herbaceous plants, Cruciferae, the common ones are Brassicacapestris and B. napus. The rape flower is a small flower formed by four petals, a pistil, four long stamens and two short stamens, containing a very rich pollen. The seeds contain 35-50% oil, which can be extracted or used as fodder. In addition, the young stems and leaves of rapeseed flowers can also be eaten as vegetables.
Rapeseed is one of the easiest crops to cultivate. Farmers often sprinkle rapeseed seeds on their fields during the winter and spring fallow periods, and about two months after planting the seeds, small yellow flowers blossom, and in the spring of the next year, farmers plow the rapeseed into the soil to add nutrients to the soil. And the fruit that comes out of the blossoms is China's No. 1 raw material for edible vegetable oil.
The young stems and leaves of rapeseed can be eaten, and the seeds can be extracted for oil or used as fodder, which is the main motive for most farmers in China to plant rapeseed.
Because the pollen is rich in nectar, it often attracts colorful butterflies and small insects to fly between the flowers, thus adding to the colorful scenery of the countryside. But the downside is that it can sometimes be a nuisance for farmers who want to get rid of the bugs later in the spring.
The juice made from rapeseed flowers is said to be effective in preventing high blood pressure, anemia and colds. The method of preparation is simple: one or two canola, a little apple and lemon, chop the canola and apple, put them into a juicer and blend into juice, then add lemon juice and a little honey.
Planting
One, outside the root fertilizer
In the rape shoots flowering period, every certain time to spray 1 time phosphorus, boron, manganese and other trace elements or composite organic fertilizer in a water solution, can prevent the rape flowers and not real. Foliar spraying 0.02% boric acid solution can improve the effective branching number of rapeseed, the number of pods per plant and thousand grain weight. In the pod maturity foliar spraying 2% to 3% calcium superphosphate aqueous solution, can improve the yield and quality of rape.
Two, irrigation good flowering water
Rapeseed rape flowering period of up to 30 days, water demand, according to soil moisture irrigation 1 ~ 2 times.
Three, irrigation good pod water
Rapeseed final flower, according to the moisture condition of the timely irrigation. The pods can be irrigated 1 to 2 times.
Four, canola pests and diseases
The main diseases that harm canola in our province are botrytis and virus diseases. Botrytis mostly occurs in the flowering and fruiting period of rapeseed, and can be sprayed with Tobramycin or carbendazim water solution for prevention and control. Virus disease can be reduced by controlling aphids. Aphids can be prevented and controlled by spraying 40% Rogaine emulsion 500 grams per acre with water to form 1000 to 1500 times liquid, or by spraying 50% anti-phidic acid wettable powder 3,000 to 5,000 times liquid.
Every time after the second phase of rice harvest before winter, the paddy field in October-November will enter the fallow period, sowing rapeseed seed, after 40 days, the paddy field is full of rapeseed flowers. The main thing is to use canola as a green manure plant and organic fertilizer.
Green sightseeing resources
In recent years, all over the development of local characteristics, the more important sightseeing counties and cities, the winter canola fields included in the overall sightseeing project one of the government and the farmers to promote cooperation and other local agricultural products exhibition and sale of activities in conjunction with the canola flowers have become the best to attract sightseeing of the green resources. Jiangxi wuyuan rapeseed flowers famous.
Rapeseed rape can not only be organic green fertilizer, but also increase tourism income, proving that the concept of green environmental protection and the economy can coexist.
In China, the rape flower viewing time for the end of December every year to April. Southern Taiwan in December can bloom. Each place because the planting time is slightly different, the flowering period will have a little difference, with the change of climate is also slightly before and after the difference, if it is a warm winter, the flowering period will be earlier.
March of the rapeseed flower Grand View Garden sea of flowers, streams, villages, hills lying, peach and plum dotted, swarms of bees flying, the earth a faction of the gold color, really have the world of the flowers of the beauty of the rhyme, the sea of flowers, the bees and butterflies play, the flowers of the intoxication, the spring wind blowing, the golden wave rolled, waves even clouds. There are grape creek, ten thousand bee raccoon, drunken flower salon, creek bamboo elegant house, gold coast and several other special attractions. According to the person in charge of the tourist attractions, after several years of construction, now the scenic area infrastructure and service facilities than in previous years has improved significantly, the reception capacity has also improved significantly