Homologous plants
(1) Longjiaosu: branchlets curved downward, the crown is umbrella-shaped, many planted in the garden.
(2) Purple acacia: 15-17 leaflets, the leaves are bluish gray silky pubescent; the wing petals and keel petals of the flowers are often purplish, and the flowering period is the latest.
(3) five-leaf acacia: leaflets 3-5 clusters, terminal leaflets often 3-lobed, lateral leaflets often have large lobes in the lower part.
(4) Golden acacia: lateral leaflets often have large lobes in the lower part, the back of the leaf is hairy, branches yellow.
Sophora: flowers are multiple flowers, racemes, butterfly-shaped corolla, in full bloom in clusters, overlapping and hanging. The florets are much wrinkled and curled, the petals are much scattered, the calyx of the intact ones is campanulate, yellowish-green, 5-lobed at the apex; the petals are 5, mostly yellow or yellowish-white, but also other colors such as purplish-red (see picture), usually 1 is larger, suborbicular, with a slightly concave apex, and the remaining 4 are oblong; stamens are 10, 9 of them are united at the base, with slender filaments Sophora - Plant Source Ecology
; the pistils are terrestrial, curved This entry focuses on the flowers of the leguminous plant Sophora japonica, for a description of the plant Sophora japonica see the entry Sophora japonica, for a description of the flower buds of Sophora japonica see the entry Sophora japonica rice, and for other herbs related to Sophora japonica see Sophora japonica fruit.
Edit Ornamental value
Sophora japonica is a deciduous tree, often planted on the side of the house, roadside, commonly cultivated all over China, to the Loess Plateau and the North China Plain for more, White Sophora japonica
Generally blossomed in April-May each year, the flowering period is usually about 10-15 days. Sophora has a good ornamental value, every summer when the flowering season comes, a string of white Sophora flowers adorned with branches, the air is filled with a light elegant fragrance, refreshing. There is a poem (author unknown) is often mentioned, "acacia forest in May ripples agarwood, lush fragrance drunk ten thousand families, spring water blue wave floating down the place, floating incense all the way to the end of the world
Sophora: deciduous tree, 15-25m high. pinnately compound leaves alternate; leaf axis hairy, base expanded; leaflets 9-15, ovate-oblong, 2.5-7.5cm long, 1.5cm wide, 2.5-7.5cm long, 2.5-7.5cm wide, 2.5-7.5cm long, 2.5-7.5cm wide, 1.5-7.5cm wide. Leaflets 9-15, ovate-oblong, 2.5-7.5cm long, 1.5-5cm wide, apex pointed, base broadly cuneate, gray-white, sparsely pubescent below. Panicles terminal; calyx campanulate, 5-denticulate; corolla creamy white, its petals broadly cordate, shortly clawed, and with purple veins, margins of winged and keeled petals slightly purplish; stamens 10, separate, unequal. Pods fleshy, stringy, 2.5-5cm long, glabrous, indehiscent. Seeds 1-6, reniform. Flowering July-September, fruiting September-October.