Xiaogan: Yihe Garden benchmarks more than 600 lotus flowers in Wuhan Botanical Garden

The Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is one of the earliest units in China for the breeding and research of lotus crops in China, and there are more than 700 lotus resources from all over the world. In order to promote the process of new lotus varieties and new technology industrialization, the garden and Xiaogan's Chu Shuihe Township Ecological Agricultural Corporation "hold hands" and cultivate new varieties in the Yihe Garden demonstration base in Xiaogan, and the lotus flowers are open. Beautiful.

In Pengxing Township, Xiaonan District, Xiaogan City, from the air, the picture of the 700 acres of lotus kidneys is spectacular, and it has the elegant style of "the sky is infinitely clear, the lotus lotus flowers are red".

Yang Dong, senior engineer of Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: There are about 1,000 lotus flowers in the world, and there are more than 600 kinds of planting in the base of Chu Shuihe Township.

How to distinguish these 600 lotus flowers, Yang Dong, senior engineer of Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told us that not only should we look at the height of the plant type, but also the color of the color, and even the petals are different.

Yang Dong, senior engineer of Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: More than one meter, we call it large lotus flowers. Lotus is generally divided into red, yellow, white, pink, etc. There is also a petal type. The flap type of lotus generally has a single petal, semi -induced, heavy petals, heavy table and other types.

In the 100 -acre Lotus New Variety Cultivation Demonstration Base in Yiheyuan, there is also a group of long -flowering "autumn lotus" varieties. Under the normal and natural conditions of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the flowering period has been extended from about 3 months to 5 to 6 to 6. A month.

Yu Guiqing, the person in charge of the Hyunda Garden Modern Agricultural Industrial Park: It can be seen until the end of October, so that friends who love the lotus can still see the beautiful scene of "green lotus cover green water, hibiscus wearing red fresh" in the autumn of Xiao Se.

Source: "Well -off" · China Well -off

Editor in charge: Jia Yonglong Gong Zimo

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