Hangzhou Botanical Garden now has camellia flowers.
When the refreshing sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, the camellia flowers are also quietly getting ready. No, the first sasanqua in the Mulan Mountain Tea Garden of Hangzhou Botanical Garden can’t wait to bloom in this fruitful golden autumn.
This sasanqua flower is white with a hint of red. It blooms calmly and brilliantly, full of joy. It is the earliest horticultural variety of sasanquas to bloom, "Asakura". The flowers of "Chaocang" are gathered, dense and diffuse, making people feel a sense of elegance and warmth.
Overview of camellia flowers:
Camellia sasanqua Thunb is a shrub of Family Theaceae and Genus Camellia. The twigs are hairy, the leaves are leathery, the apex is short and pointed, and there are many The variety is also slightly fragrant.
In fact, Camellia japonica has a long history of cultivation in my country. It is said that cultivation has been popular since the Song Dynasty. The poet Liu Shiheng of the Song Dynasty wrote a poem "Ode to Camellia Plum Blossoms", in which he wrote: "The small courtyard is still cold but not warm. At that time, the sea red flowers bloomed late in the evening, and in the half-dark and half-light east wind, it was good that Xu Xi brought the snow branches."
Haihong in the poem refers to Camellia sasanqua, and the poem expresses the elegant shape and extraordinary charm of Camellia sasanqua. Gao Lian of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Plum Blossom Order, Camellia Camellia" that the flower shape of Camellia sasanqua is similar to that of plum blossoms. The poem said: "The flowers are the same as plum blossoms." The poem is concise, but it is vivid and interesting to read.