The birthday flower on August 18th is Gelsemium japonica.
The Gelsemium flower that bears the flower Gelsemium is an evergreen vine-like plant that likes to twine. Under normal circumstances, few people would plant it at home, and even in the courtyard it is extremely rare. Under normal circumstances it is just born in the wild, in remote places.
In wild survival, people who know the truth should stay away. If you encounter it unexpectedly, you will regard it as a dangerous creature, and you must remember its power. Judging from the appearance, it has smooth branches and leaves, cymose-shaped flower tops are open, and the flowers are often light yellow, and the flower body is funnel-shaped. The flowers bloom from August to November. They look very similar to honeysuckle, but the difference between it and honeysuckle is that the whole plant is poisonous, and it is highly poisonous and is the number one killer.
Gelsemium is often called the heartbroken grass. Its toxicity is as its name suggests, and it can cause death by heartbreak. Under its influence, those who have no merit can be completely ignored. Because the whole plant is highly toxic, it is collectively known as the four most poisonous weeds in Hong Kong, together with goldenrod, nux vomica and crocodile root. Among them, the toxicity is strongest when the young leaves and roots are young.
We can often see in Jin Yong's martial arts novels that some people were poisoned and defeated in the martial arts competition, some were poisoned and died without a trace, and some were poisoned and lost all their skills and martial arts. And many of them are injured by plant poisons.
The common name of Gelsemium genus Gelsemium is one of them. It appeared in Jin Yong's martial arts novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". If you still remember Louis Koo's version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", in which Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu fell in love with the poison of the love flower. Yang Guo even threw half of the Heartless Pill into the bottom of the valley. The poison of the love flower needs an antidote. , became a suspended object for a while, the plot was unbearable, and there was no way to revive it.
After experiencing setbacks and countless psychological hardships, he suddenly encountered the heartbroken grass and tried to fight the poison with poison, which relieved the poison of the poisonous love flower. Those in the know think that the gallbladder grass looks like a fern, but in fact the gallbladder grass should grow like the picture.
Gelsemium is called Gelsemium gallica, and there is also a story that there was a god in history, who was said to be called Shennong. He has been smart since he was a child and often solves problems for others. It is said that his whole body can be transparent, the food he eats can be clearly seen in the stomach, and the peristalsis in the intestines can be seen clearly. Therefore, with a love for the people and a love for the people, he began to work hard to get rid of the bitter consequences. So he traveled all over the mountains, forests and wilderness, tasting all kinds of herbs.
Herbal medicine needs curative effect, and when a herb is toxic, you will definitely see a black color in Shennong's transparent intestines and stomach. Normally, you can know the properties of the herbal medicine, and it can be cured in one day. The theory of encountering seventy poisons. It seems that Shennong has become immortal.
Unfortunately, Shennong once encountered a vine with opposite leaves and small light yellow flowers in a hidden sunny place. I felt like I had never seen it before, and just as he was testing the medicine, Shen Nong picked off a small piece of young leaf and ate it. At this moment, the plot suddenly turned around, and the herbal poison suddenly broke out, and Shen Nong suddenly felt unwell immediately. Just when Shennong was about to take the antidote he always kept at his side, he saw that his intestines had been cut into sections. Not long after, Shennong was unable to do anything, so he left the world and ended his life. Later, people called this plant Gelsemium elegans.