The red stone garlic enters the flowering period, and the best time to enjoy the sea of stone garlic in the year is here!

Yangtze Evening News (Reporter Xu Sheng) In people's expectations, the latest red stone garlic flowers in the stone garlic family finally bloom in large areas, and gradually entered the flowering period. A few days ago, the reporter saw in Cuizhou, Xuanwu Lake Scenic Area in Nanjing. A piece of red stone garlic blooming bloomed, and it looked like a layer of red carpet, which was intoxicated. According to reports, stone garlic is planted in the entire domain of Xuanwu Lake, including Cuizhou, Aquatic Plants Popular Park, and Liangzhou. At present, the stone garlic of these places is in full bloom, and it is expected to spend about a week.

Cuizhou's stone garlic

From July to September of each year, golden, milky, bright red, and pink purple variety of alcohol flowers are bloomed for two months. Although the flowering period of each variety is not long, one by one overlap, the relay is open, and it can be full of summer.

According to reports, the color of the plant of stone garlic can be divided into five types: red, white, yellow, pink, and compound color. The red system contains the type of stone garlic and rose and garlic; in the white is stone garlic, the long cylindrical and garlic flowers are slender, and Shaanxi stone garlic has red stripes. There are the most types of stone garlic, which are both Chinese -unique Chinese stone garlic, Anhui stone garlic, Guangxi stone garlic, as well as the sudden laughter with a variety of medicinal ingredients such as Galan and other. There are varieties such as deer onions in pink.

Stone garlic has a 1500 -year cultivation history in my country. The name of the stone garlic began in the Song Dynasty "Materia Medica Sutra". Because it was "born in the shadow and wet places, it looks like garlic, and has special garlic." garlic". And because of flowering, it is like an exquisite ancient palace lantern. The earliest records of golden lanterns can be traced back to the drowning of the north and south towns in the north and south. In its "Miscellaneous Three Words and Constants", there is a sentence of "Golden Lantern Xijiang, Huanxuan Xi Zachi". When the stone garlic is in full bloom, the petals are rolling and shrinking like dragon claws. In ancient times, people also called it "dragon claw flower".

Red stone garlic

(Photo Conferring in Xuanwu Lake Scenic Area)

Edit: Qin Xiaoyi

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