The purple flower of "milk" will flow!Wuhan Botanical Garden Publish New Species Burmese Milk Cai

Jimu Journalist Li Bansong

Correspondent Jiang Shan

Intern Chen Lin Ding Rong

In the upcoming September, the HONGGA Mountains in Grape County, Myanmar's Kachinbang Grape County will bloom a cluster of small purple flowers on the elevation of about 950 meters above sea level. The flowers are only 1 cm size. The second time is open ... This is the new Southeast Asian peeling plant species of the Southeast Asian Pyreal Plants, Myanmar, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Wuhan Botanical Garden and the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Myanmar milk grows in nature

Burmese milk is a genus of chyanae, and is named Burmese milk because it is mainly distributed in Myanmar. However, the name of the milk dishes is not interesting. Xu Wenbin, the first author of the paper, the engineer of the Wuhan Botanical Garden Horticultural Conservation Center, introduced that if the leaves, branches and other parts of the milk dishes are broken, there will be thick white 'milk' out, white '' The milk 'is the same as we drink, so there is this name. Xu Wenbin laughed.

However, the 'milk' flowing out of the milk is not real milk, but its plant juice. If the petiole is broken, the juice will drop drop by drop. Although it is called milk, such plants cannot be eaten directly.

Myanmar milk flows out of "milk"

Burmese milk is a vine plant. It is mostly attached to other plants to grow. It likes a warm and humid environment. It often grows on hillside with sufficient sunlight and sparse vegetation. Due to the lack of a more detailed and comprehensive natural distribution survey, the author seizures the protection level of Myanmar's milk as DATA Defficient (DD, data lack) according to the IUCN red list standard.

Myanmar milk grows in nature

Ceremony is established in 1810 and includes about 100 species in 1810. It is mainly distributed in Asia, America and tropical Africa. The new species of Burmese milk is similar to Hainan's milk, milk, and velvet milk, but can be exposed from its bell -shaped corolla, purple corolla cracks, spindle -shaped stamens from the corolla tube, the secondary of the stigma apex two. The distinction between cracks and void crowns has two elliptical protrusions and other characteristics.

Xu Wenbin said that the discovery of new species is of great significance for the understanding of biodiversity, plant protection and plant research. "Only by constantly discovering new species can we take corresponding protection measures, tap its potential application value, and further enrich academic research on the plant and the same plant. It provides unlimited possibilities, "Xu Wenbin said.

(The picture is provided by Shen Jianyong, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Xishuangbanna Herbal Botanical Garden)

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