The flower shape of impatiens is peculiar and beautiful. In the ancient Chinese book "Guangqun Fangpu" (the 40th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty), there is a vivid description of impatiens: "Blooming between the branches, with head, wings and tail." The legs are winged and shaped like a phoenix, so it is also known as the golden phoenix. "my country has a wide variety of plants and rich resources. The known species now account for 1/4 of the world's species, which is more than twice the amount of impatiens produced in Africa. There are single-flowered ones and those with most flowers arranged in racemes, corymboses or nearly umbels; the flowers vary in size, color, shape of bracts, sepals, flags, wings and lips. . These morphological differences fully reflect and display their diversity, and also provide new plant resources with ornamental value for the introduction, cultivation, development and utilization of horticultural flowers in my country.
In addition, many species of this genus can be used for medicinal purposes. According to the relevant Chinese herbal plant literature, Impatiens, Impatiens, Impatiens, Goldilocks, Shuijinfeng, Lengshuiqi, Gulingfeng Plants such as fairy flower, hairy impatiens, Northeastern impatiens and sharp-toothed impatiens have the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving pain and reducing swelling, dispelling wind and dampness, relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation, reducing inflammation and dissipating blood stasis. It has certain curative effect in regulating rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, malignant sores and carbuncles, snake bites, etc. With the in-depth development of national and local resource surveys, it is expected that more new medicinal plants will be discovered and unearthed in this genus.