Excerpt from the beautiful article describing Luan tree: Luan tree
/kloc-in early February, in Shenzhen, I found the capsule of Luan tree on the bluestone path on campus.
The capsule of Luan tree looks familiar-three thin and crisp peels form a triangle, and the front end is carefully opened, like a lantern, like a bell, and also like a northern fruit vinegar commonly known as a girl.
In other words, people familiar with Shenzhen Roselle (also known as bougainvillea) will think that the capsule of Luan tree is like the flower of Roselle, and even the reticular veins of the capsule skin are almost exactly the same as the vein pattern of Roselle bracts. Different from Le Du Fu, the mature Luan tree capsule is brown, and even if Le Du Fu has failed, its bracts remain bright.
However, Luan Shu capsule has a bright color before it turns brown. The light green and pink of the newly formed capsule gradually reflect each other, and then become two shades of burgundy, swaying intoxicating colors in the sun. After the baptism of autumn wind, the red gradually precipitated into a gentle and restrained brown.
When the capsule of Luan tree is red, it is often mistaken for the flowering of Luan tree. This misunderstanding is not surprising. Who told me that the flower of Luan tree is so low-key, so low-key people tend to ignore it? Luan tree blooms in April and May, with dense panicles and thin pale yellow flowers. It is born at the top of the tree crown, close to green, and extends to the sky, which is very inconspicuous and difficult to find. If it weren't for some fallen flowers, it would be almost impossible to notice the existence of Luan trees when passing by. However, after the capsule turned red, the contrast between red and green was strong, and Luan tree seemed to jump out of a piece of green and enter people's sight. In people's general idea, flowers are so bright, aren't they?
Jiang Xun, an aesthetician in Taiwan Province, wrote about Luan tree in "All Living Beings at this Time". Jiang Xun, who is good at discovering beauty, naturally noticed the uniqueness of Luan tree. He wrote that most ordinary plants are beautiful and charming, and the fruit is as quiet and satisfied as a pregnant woman, as if all the passion and turmoil have calmed down. However, plants like Luan tree are the opposite. Their flowers are shy and humble, but their fruits are as red as fire, and all their strength and beauty are bright.
Similar plants, I know apples. Apple's fruit is bright red, saying that it is not a bright red flower on the tree. It is estimated that few people want to believe it. But the apple's floret is so thin, small and dumb that you can't notice it unless you look closely.
My feeling is similar to that of Jiang Xun. Seeing bright red capsules, I often miss the flower season of Luan tree. Because of this experience, I was surprised to see the photos of Luan tree flowers in full bloom at Hongluo Temple in Huairou, Beijing on the Internet. Looking at the hillside where Hongluo Temple is located, the lush scenery is dotted with brilliant golden yellow, and a touch of bright and transparent light is sprinkled on the ancient and deep temple buildings, which is refreshing and awe-inspiring.
Excerpted from the beautiful article describing Luan tree: Luan tree blooms in another autumn.
I have always liked Luan tree and its beautiful and changeable colors.
On the green belt in front of our community, dozens of Luan trees were transplanted several years ago. Now it is as thick as a bowl mouth and more than ten meters high. The dense canopy almost covered the sky. Every year in September and December, it is a grand flowering period. Whether the flowers are beautiful or not, they can make my fidgety mood come alive immediately.
Luan tree is a beautiful landscape tree, also known as lantern tree, cash cow and National Day flower. Luan tree is tall and straight, with dense and beautiful branches and leaves, and its crown is naturally round. Young leaves are mostly red leaves in spring and yellow flowers are everywhere in summer. After autumn, the color of the leaves gradually turns yellow, full of golden flowers and pink flowers and fruits, which are very eye-catching and beautiful. It is one of the common foliage trees in the garden.
The flowering period of Luan tree is quite short, from blooming to withering, only one or two weeks, leaving people with eternal beauty. Instead, it is a bright red bubble pod, which looks like a miniature version of carambola, but the color is changeable, just like a magician, initially changing from green to light yellow, then to lavender, and then to reddish brown. Fruit looks like a flower from a distance, looks like a fruit from a close distance, and looks like a red lantern that never fades. Especially in autumn and October. Golden flower and red fruit? , plump, against the yellow leaves, it looks particularly enchanting and colorful. From a distance, it looks like a group of beautiful butterflies are dancing, which makes people see things in a blur.
The most beautiful appearance of Luan tree begins with the appearance of the first flower. A row of tiny golden inflorescences are stacked on top of each other like conjoined babies. The flowers of Luan tree don't bloom all at once, just like the returning bees quickly condense on the nest spleen, then stretch layer by layer and bloom on the branches in turn.
Luan tree is a famous ornamental tree with bright colors, bright flowers, tender and lovely leaves and green color. Huang Zhaomin, a poet in Qing Dynasty, described Huangshan Luan with a concrete image in A Passage to Huangshan Mountain. The branches of Yu Xia are bright and tender, and the trees are unknown. When you climb up and down, you know it is neither a leaf nor a flower. ? Liao Liao wrote the beauty of Luan tree to the extreme in four sentences.
In winter, the color of Luan tree is gray, without complicated twigs, and it has a cold image, but the pods of Luan tree still remain on the branches. When warm spring comes, its crimson bell-shaped shell has turned white after a long winter. At this time, what is on the tree? Bell? It is more like a flower.
I like flying in the air as leisurely and mighty as they are, and I prefer to wear this on the boulevard when the flowers fall. Autumn wind swept by, magnificently, and fell on your hair and body, dressing you up as a fragrant new (lang) mother. Look at each flower carefully. The roots of pale yellow petals are surrounded by a crimson calyx. Half of the fallen flowers have petals on the calyx and the other half are still on the branches, which seems to indicate the brilliant red of next season. In this way, flowers, like endless flowers, keep blooming and dying.
Walking on the road full of Luan tree flowers, I gently move my steps, with a smart rhythm, feel the original state of life with my heart, capture the inspiration of life, and find ways to stimulate nerve activity. I really want to walk on such a quiet tree-lined path every day in my later years, stepping on fallen flowers all over the ground, going back and forth, and so on.
Excerpts from beautiful articles describing Luan tree: hometown, affectionate Luan tree
Recently, because of some things to do, I often haunt the Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway and Yiyue Expressway. Sitting in the car, I am often attracted by the trees outside the window, or lonely, or living in groups, into pieces, full of slopes, with different heights.
When I first met Luan Shu, I didn't know it, but I was amazed at its beauty! In the streets of late autumn, when many landscape trees are flourishing, Luan trees hold up a unique landscape. On the lush canopy, the dense capsules are like countless small bells, and the yellow, green and pink are surprisingly beautiful. I intuitively called it at that time? Bell tree? . When asked about idle people passing by, no one can call them by their first names! So I went home to check the information and compared the pictures with the information before I knew the scientific name of this clock tree. It's called. Luan tree? There are several aliases that I have read and think are better than those I have taken. Bell tree? The name is more appropriate and romantic Luan tree, also known as lantern tree, in terms of shape; Moqi, also known as a cash cow, is called Qiu Lai Luan Tree Capsule, which is gorgeous and pleasing to the eye, and can giggle under the breeze, so it has this name.
Does Luan tree have a folk name? Dr. Tree? Yes, the most original source of this statement can be found in Ban Gu's book "White Tiger with Tongde Theory", which says: In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wen Jia said: The emperor's tomb is three years old and the tree is loose; Half of the princes, the tree is cypress; The doctor is eight feet, and the tree attracts the wind; Four feet, a tree with locusts; There are no graves in Shu Ren, and the trees are willows. ? It means that tombs from emperors to ordinary people are divided into five grades according to the etiquette of Zhou, and different trees are planted on them to show their identity. Many Luan trees were planted in front of the scholar-bureaucrat's grave, so this tree won again? Dr. Tree? Alias of.
Luan tree can occupy October spring in one year. This tree is lush and beautiful in spring, with bright red and lovely leaves; In summer, the leaves are getting greener and the yellow flowers are full of trees, which is really magnificent; When all the summer flowers in Qiu Lai fall, the branches are covered with capsules, such as lanterns, which are colorful. Such a good tree is really a first-class green landscape tree.
Luan tree, in full bloom.
I was walking in Canal Park when I suddenly found this.
This is a good place for a walk, and this kind of tree can be seen vaguely on the north bank of the canal. In spring, they always germinate too late, which makes my anxious heart wait too long. In summer, I can't keep out the fierce sunshine and delicate branches for me, and I can't even extend my arms to my companion across the street, which gives me the inspiration to look at each other like a lover. The most desolate is winter, when the north wind blows and the bare branches make harsh noises?
This autumn, people walking in the Canal Park were pleasantly surprised to find that it was full of charming flowers?
As a result, when I went out by car and saw her figure from the window, I felt a kind of joy and a good feeling in my heart. According to the fashionable language in the network now? A Mu!
These Luan trees seem to be full of bright yellow flowers overnight. Yes, it's autumn now. If they don't bloom, it's too late.
The flowers of these Luan trees are very small, bright yellow and brilliant all the way, but they can't smell the flowers. There are many bees, and there must be very sweet honey in the stamens. Nature is fair: instead of giving these flowers fragrance, they give them sweetness.
It's already late, most of the autumn flowers are fruitless, so hurry up. Luan tree will complete bolting, germination and flowering in two weeks. So will Luan tree bear seeds?
This tree is full of flowers, a pengpeng, one after another, and it is lively and make public, which makes people feel bright. It opens on my head, like a bright smiling face; It floated down and landed on my flying hair and clothes; It fell to the ground, and even my shoes were covered with her smell. Along the way, standing on fallen flowers, in the shadow of flowers, dazzling, my heart burst like a flower: life can still go like this! It turns out that there can be such beautiful scenery all the way!
When I was a child, when I saw Luan tree, my mother always told me: This is Luan tree, and her fruit can be used to string bracelets and necklaces. I hope she will blossom and bear fruit every year. Having a bracelet made of Luan Shuguo has become my dream along the way? It's just that I always miss the season, have never seen her flowers, have never seen her fruit?
With fruit, trees will be rich. The early blooming Luan tree has borne fruit pods, and the crimson color floats on the branches, just like a light cage in the sunset glow. Luan tree will hold high the fruit and make that touch of red enchanting in autumn!
Looking at those bright eyes, I suddenly wonder why people love the red of maple leaves and ignore the brilliance of Luan trees. Since ancient times, there have been many praises for maple leaves, but it is rare to really recite Luan trees! As early as the Tang Dynasty, Du Mu wrote such a poem:? Stop and sit in the maple forest late, and the frost leaves are red in February flowers. ? Does the poet describe the red leaf ratio? February flowers? . Although the red flowers in spring are brightly colored, they are not as deep and thorough as the red leaves in autumn, and they also have an elegant beauty. In autumn, the mountains and plains are covered with red leaves, which burn like clouds of flames under the sunshine. Really? Fly to the sky? Huh?
Luan tree has a long history in China. There are two ancient Luan trees in Beijing Botanical Garden, which were planted in the Ming Dynasty more than 500 years ago. Plants on the earth, like any life, live and die, but the trees in the words are immortal. In the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the pre-Qin period, there was already the growth of Luan trees: in the wild, there were misty and rainy mountains, and there was a tree named Luan. Jade attacks rain, and there are red stones. The Luan tree that Dayu saw in Yu Yun was born on the head of a red stone. The color of the stone is imagined according to the red lanterns of Luan tree: clouds are lingering and drizzling, and the red stone gives birth to green trees and red lanterns. Myth is really beautiful.
Because of beautiful myths, Luan trees grow in cemeteries. In Zhou Li, there are Shu Song, vassal Bai, doctor Luan and teacher Yang. Because it is planted in front of the doctor's grave, Luan tree is also called doctor tree. Although listed in the tomb raiding tree, China people don't seem to mind. Meng Qian Bitan said that more Luan trees were planted in the courtyards of the Han Dynasty. No wonder Lu Xun sighed: Think about how many people in China let go.
Both are tomb trees, although? How many poplars are there? However, there are quite a number of China's poems praising poplars. In modern times, Zhou Zuoren wrote an article saying that one of his two favorite trees is poplar. In the Tang Dynasty, Zhang said that there was a poem about Luan trees: Doctor Feng Gao's tree reveals general medicine. The wind is high and the trees are high, full of verve, but it is a bit of a swan song. In the literary history since then, there are few traces of Luan trees. Being sung and told is to be remembered, and vice versa, it is forgotten because of negligence.
The Luan tree whose literary history has disappeared has been transplanted into vegetation books such as medical books and disaster relief books. Unfortunately, China's earliest medical work, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, classified Luan Shu as inferior. I don't know if this is the beginning or the result of Luan Shu's bad luck. However, the references to Luan tree in later vegetation books are somewhat vague. Zhu Yun, the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, wrote "Herbal Medicine for Disaster Relief", calling Luan tree a wood Luan tree and describing its shape. He said: The tree is taller than the foot. Leaves like neem leaves are wide and slightly thin. It has light yellow flowers, thin shells, seeds as big as peas and dark black. Many people pick them and string them into beads, and the leaves taste faint and sweet. There is a neem tree on the school lawn. You can go and have a look. Both kinds of trees have pinnately compound leaves. What Zhu Kui said is basically good, but the picture next to it is obviously another kind of tree. Wu Qizhuo, the champion of Fei, said in Textual Research on Plant Names that three Luan trees were called Hui trees and Luan flowers respectively, and copied them, but he didn't understand that Hui trees and Luan flowers were the same tree. Even, Li Shizhen, a master of flowers and trees, talked about Luan trees, but he also copied them, without personally observing them. He just copied what Su Gong and other predecessors said. Su Gong of the Tang Dynasty described Luan Shuguo as inferior to Zi Yue and Luan Shu in Tang Materia Medica, but said? Leaves are as thin as hibiscus? The existing problems make people suspect that Furong is the fault of Azadirachta azedarach. Shuo Wen Jie Zi not only explains Luan Wei? Like cockroaches? Even, Taiwan Province Province regards Luan Shu and Melia azedarach as a family and calls them Uncle Melia azedarach. However, the problem is that the pictures of Luan trees in Disaster Relief Materia Medica and Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts are exactly the same. Leaves like hibiscus? . The mystery of history, later generations do not check, so pass it on.
The ancient records of Luan trees are quite confusing, but it is good to write vegetation characters. Textual Research on Plant Names and Facts is a book about vegetation, but its words are like poems: Zhu Tian in the crimson glow and the moonlight shining in the cave. Before the frost leaves, the autumn spectrum can be increased. Wu Zhuangyuan and Huang Zhaomin who wrote "Lantern Tree" love Luan trees? Non-leaf non-flower? Capsule. The capsule was born, light green, and turned red in the autumn sun. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is bright and the capsules are red. If you walk under the tree, you can say: The red light is on. The red lantern is on and the flowers are still there. Fragmented yellow flowers rustle and fall all over the trees. If you take it off, the petals at the base are a little bright red, which makes people feel excited. People in Taiwan Province Province love their flowers, so they named the tree after it: Golden Rain Tree.
The ancients not only ate the leaves of Luan tree in famine years, but also dyed them blue and yellow, and called the seeds of Luan tree "Kimura Ranji" as a rosary. These are all lost crafts. It doesn't matter if you lose your craft, as long as you love beauty. Walk past the Luan tree, stop and look up at the lighted lanterns in the rain. Is the Luan tree still there?
If you miss the spring flowering, if you miss the summer fruit, then learn from Luan tree. Take advantage of the autumn wind to send cool, take advantage of the sky is high and the clouds are light, a tree blooms brilliantly, and the knot is brilliant everywhere!
I can't forget the Luan tree in my hometown! Her light effect is naturally soft, the color is naturally charming, the atmosphere is magnificent, the levels are rich and colorful, the colors are full, the atmosphere is gorgeous and beautiful.