Huxiang's natural calendar 丨 shocking glimpse ④ picky "small plane"

Summer on Monday, September 5, 2022

Generally, the "nickname" is closer to the characteristics of the name "master" than the name. Orange yellow jade and phoenix flowers are no exception. Its "nickname" is called a plane flower, which is quite appropriate.

Yufenghua is a collective name of a class of plants. They are distributed in more than 600 types worldwide, and they are a larger terrestrial orchid of Lanke plants. In China, most of the jade and phoenix flowers are blooming in summer and autumn and withered in winter, and the south of the Yangtze River is very common, but the orange yellow jade and phoenix flowers are very rare and are included in the Appendix II of the International Trade Convention (CITES) of the endangered plant species (CITES).

The special of orange yellow jade Fenghua can be seen from the shape. Its flowers are really red in orange, and they are bright and bright; lips are divided into four cracks and stretching, and the petals extend the pipe structure to form long flowers. On the whole, every flower is a "small aircraft" that is taking off.

In the breeding, the orange and yellow jade and Fenghua was also "picky". The plants of Yufeng flowers are generally relying on moths. Although the orange and yellow jade and phoenix flowers grow next to the ravine in the underworld, they often coexist with the stone wall moss, but they only accept the "beautiful" jade spontaneous phoenix butterfly and the broadband beautiful phoenix butterfly. As an effective fan--

The two kinds of phoenix butterflies are perfectly matched with the flowers of the orange -yellow jade and phoenix flowers. When the phoenix butterfly stops on the huge lips of the orange and yellow jade and phoenix flowers, and insert the beak tube into the long flower distance intending to absorb the bottom of the flowers at the bottom of the flower, you will find that the beak tube is shorter than the flower distance. The butterfly is unwilling to give up The nectar in front of the beak will desperately fan the wings to "bury the head and suck". In the process, the butterfly head touches the pollen pieces to achieve the flour.

In order to attract effective powder, the "picky" orange yellow jade and phoenix flower strives to bloom bright flowers. Orange and red are the colors of jade spoils and phoenix butterflies and broadband beautiful phoenix butterflies. Obviously, no matter how naturally, life can always find the way of survival.

【Little Business Card】

Orange yellow jade and phoenix flowers, Lanke Yufeng flowers are plants, perennial herbs. The tuber is round and round, fleshy; leaf strips are round, 10 to 15 cm long, and the apex gradually spikes; the total inflorescences are more than 10 to 10 sparse flowers, sepals and petals green, orange yellow, orange -red lips, lips orange, orange -red, Or red, with a typical orchid structure; 蒴 或 spindle shape. From July to August, the fruiting period is from 10th to November.

In our country, it is mostly distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Hong Kong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou and other regions. It is born on the underworld of 300 to 1500 meters of hillside or grooves.

Text/Peng Yahui Picture/Zhang Fan Design/Zhouyuan Think Tank/Zhang Fan Comprehensive Coordination/Zhang Hui Special Support/Hunan Forestry Bureau

[Edit: Wang Yao Bing Tang Jiajun (Internship)]]

[Source: Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client]

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