Cherry blossoms, other famous cherry blossoms. It belongs to Rosaceae, a deciduous tree. Bark is purple-brown, smooth and shiny, with horizontal stripes. Leaves alternate, ovoid or obovate-elliptic, with awn teeth at the edge, sharp and glandular at the apex, dark green shiny surface and slightly pale back. Stipules are needle-shaped, with serrated edges and glands at the crack end. Each branch has three to five flowers, which are umbrella-shaped, the sepals are horizontally spread, and the petals are notched, white and red. March flowers bloom with the leaves open or behind them. The nucleus is spherical, red at first, then purple-brown, and mature in July.
Cherry blossoms are native to the Yangtze River valley in China and Japan. Nature likes sunshine and humidity, with shallow roots and weak resistance to smoke and wind. Cherry blossoms are extremely beautiful. When it is in full bloom, trees are everywhere, like clouds and clouds. They are famous ornamental flowers and trees, which bloom in early spring.
Cherry blossoms spread from China to Japan and originated in China.
Xu was born in Kunming, a cherry blossom resort. When he was a child, he studied in Cuihu Lake under the cherry blossom tide in Tong Yuan. His whole youth revolves around Tong Yuan and Cuihu, and his family lived in Luo Feng Street for many years. It is a custom to go to Tong Yuan to catch the flower tide every year. So he formed a cherry blossom complex in his life and loved cherry blossoms deeply, so he developed a habit. Looking for the origin of cherry blossoms. Influenced by some simple descriptions, I thought it originated in Japan. Later, I denied this statement from some flora and understood the "two-source theory" Cherry blossoms are produced in China and Japan, with China ranking first. It was not until I was working in Beijing in the early 1980s that I saw an authoritative monograph on cherry blossoms written by a Japanese scholar that I realized that the "two-source theory" was wrong. Cherry blossoms originated in China.
According to the Cherry Blossom Mirror, Japanese cherry blossoms first came from the Himalayas in China. The spread of cherry blossoms is as radioactive as all living things. Yunnan, close to the Himalayan region, is one of the earliest beneficiary areas. Therefore, Yunnan cherry blossoms have been famous all over the world since ancient times. This leads to another Japanese legend that the ancestors of Japanese cherry blossoms were brought back from Yunnan by monks, just as some Japanese insist that their ancestors are Yunnan Bai people. However, cherry blossoms spread from the Himalayas to Japan, which is more credible.
"Sakura Dajian" also said that after Himalayan cherry blossoms were introduced to Japan, with careful cultivation, Japan's varieties continued to increase and became a rich cherry blossom family. After becoming the national flower of Japan, it has been nurtured and cultivated, and there are more ornamental varieties. However, some cherry blossoms originated in Himalaya still grow in Japan, such as Joe and Fei. Yunnan cherry blossoms and Japanese cherry blossoms belong to the same genus. It evolved from the original bitter cherry in Tengchong and Longling, and is a variety. Flowers change from single to double, and the color changes from light pink to dark pink. This color is the difference from the highly appreciated Japanese cherry blossoms. The flowers of Japanese cherry blossoms are mostly pale pink.
As for the common article that China cherry blossoms come from Japan, it is actually a mistake. This is also related to the fact that the name Sakura is not recorded much in China classics. Because the shapes of cherry blossoms and cherries are very similar, the ancient descriptions are rather vague, and the ancient cherry blossoms are not as well known as other famous flowers, but they can still be found in ancient books. Bai Juyi's poem "A new cherry tree is planted in a small garden, so you can swim around the flowers" describes the scene of cherry blossoms in full bloom. Cherry blossoms are mentioned in Yu Ruoying's poems in the Ming Dynasty: "The rain is thin in March, and cherry blossoms are suspected of apricot blossoms." However, Japanese cherry blossom cultivation is particularly prosperous, and its reputation has overshadowed that of China, so it gave rise to the original illusion.
This reminds me of a digression. China is a big country in horticulture and flowers. Today, more than 85% of the flowers in the world are native to China. Peony, Rhododendron, Peony and Rose, which are known as the top ten famous flowers in China, have been registered as "international identities" by other countries, so that new varieties in China need to be certified by them first. The only one not registered is osmanthus fragrans. At the moment I put pen to paper, it's hard to say whether I was squatted. The connection with "Sakurahara Japan Theory" makes people think that we should strengthen our research and understanding in this field.
cherry
Chinese name: cherry
Latin scientific name: cherry. )g.don。
Alias: Ying Tao, Tao Jing, Taotao, Ying Tao, Niu Tao and Zhu Ying.
Chinese name of Rosaceae.
Corradin name: Rosaceae
Chinese name: KINOMOTO SAKURA.
Latin name: Sakura
Bahai: 300- 1300
Flora of China: 38:06 1
British flora: 9:4 18
Minimum height: 800.
Naming source: (Records of Famous Doctors) [London, Holt. Britt. : 200. 1830]
General description
Cherry belongs to deciduous fruit trees in Rosaceae. Cherry is bright red when it is ripe, beautifully carved, delicious and nutritious, and has high medical and health care value, also known as "Han Tao". The cherries cultivated as fruit trees in China include China cherry, sweet cherry, sour cherry and hairy cherry. Cherry ripens early and has the reputation of the first fruit in early spring. The output of cherries in China is 35 million Jin, only 29g per capita, which is equivalent to three big cherries or 15- 17 cherries in China. It can be seen that cherry has a broad market prospect. The sweet cherry varieties cultivated in China are mainly European and American varieties, which perform well in northern China. Because European sweet cherry generally needs a low temperature below 7.2℃ for 900- 1400 hours to complete its dormancy in winter, it has limited its large-scale cultivation in southern China. Therefore, China cherry is still the main cultivated variety in southern provinces of China. At the same time, there are few excellent cherry varieties in China, and the cultivated varieties generally show many shortcomings, such as small fruit, sour taste, fruit cracking before harvest, fruit dropping and so on. The successful breeding of black pearl, an excellent cherry variety in China, has made up for these shortcomings.
Domestic distribution
Liaoning, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Sichuan. Born on sunny slopes or beside ditches, often cultivated, with an altitude of 300-600 meters.
Medicinal part
Fruit (cherry); Root (cherry root); Branches (cherry branches); Leaves (cherry leaves); Fruit stone (cherry stone)
Sexual taste orientation
Warm, sweet and slightly sour; Enter the spleen and liver meridians.
Functional indication
Tonify middle energizer, invigorate qi, dispel wind and overcome dampness. After treatment, the main symptoms are fatigue, shortness of breath, palpitation, listlessness, anorexia, dry throat and thirst, rheumatism, lumbago and leg pain, numbness of limbs, unfavorable joint flexion and extension, chilblain and so on.
nutritional ingredient
In the fruit family, the iron content is generally low, but cherries stand out from the crowd: the iron content per 100 gram of cherries is as high as 59 mg, ranking first among fruits; Vitamin a content is 4 ~ 5 times more than that of grapes, apples and oranges. In addition, cherries also contain vitamins B and C and mineral elements such as calcium and phosphorus. Every 100g contains 83g of water, 0.4g of protein/kloc-0, 0.3g of fat, 8g of sugar, 0.4g of carbohydrate/kloc-0, 66kcal of heat, 0.4g of crude fiber, 0.5g of ash, 0.8mg of calcium/kloc-0, and 0.4g of phosphorus/kloc-0. Nicotinic acid 0.4 mg, ascorbic acid 3 mg, potassium 258 mg, sodium 0.7 mg, magnesium 10.6 mg, and rich in vitamin a.
food therapy
1, anti-anemia, bloody cherry has high iron content, ranking first among all kinds of fruits. Iron is the raw material for synthesizing human hemoglobin and myoglobin, which plays an important role in the process of human immunity, protein synthesis and energy metabolism, and is also closely related to brain and nerve function and aging process. Eating cherries regularly can supplement the human body's demand for iron, promote the regeneration of hemoglobin, not only prevent iron deficiency anemia, but also enhance physical fitness, brain and intelligence.