Natural Exploring Institute | Eagle Rock Observation Oil Tung Flower Bloom

For the first time, I saw that the oil Tongshu blossomed in Buwazhai, Wenchuan County. After being separated from my companions at the top of the local mountain at that time, I went to chase a rapper rabbit alone, and encountered a Wenchuan climbing lizard in the middle of the way. Mid -mountainside. At this time, I saw a tier courtyard on the side of the fork road. There were several trees outside the courtyard wall. One of them was the most lush and looked at some flowers from a distance. I looked at the telescope and found that it was the flower of the tung tung, and I felt a little surprised. I never thought I would see the tung tung here. I wanted to go over and see, suddenly a fierce dog barking. I was in place, and I was afraid of being chased by the dog, so I exited silently.

After that, one day I came back from the wild, and my friends got the "line newspaper" that Jintang had the right tung flower blooming, so he asked to shoot together. There are not many vehicles along the way, but after arriving, they are very lively. Following the traces of tourists, we found that the mountains here are not high, and the tung flower blooms on the hillside on one side. At the foot of the mountain is the Minjiang River, a bridge across the bridge, and the vehicles on the bridge flow endlessly, making this flower have a sense of departure and next to the earth.

I have never seen such a tung flower that was so right before. In the past, I saw sporadic flowers falling on the ground first, and then looked up to find flowers. Almost all the wide green leaves hid the flowers. At this moment, the flowers are lush enough to ignore those new green leaves unconsciously. Especially when viewed from a distance, the illusion is all the illusion of flowers.

Other flowers around the flowers and trees are also gorgeous. The single -petal woody flower blooms positively, and the flower branches hanging down are all white flowers. Friends say that the taste of wooden flowers is the same as wooden fragrance as the same name. However, I think it is a kind of sweet fragrance and has no sense of aggression. When you don't distinguish, it is not easy to detect this taste, but once you confirm its fragrance, you will feel sweet and fragrant. No wonder this flower also has the common name of "Qili Xiang". Occasionally, there will be a yellow -bellied mountain bird jumping into the wooden flowers. When the "flower picker", the petals are pecked by it and flipped into the wind. Among the white, there are several pink single -petal roses. Although the most prosperous time, the color is embellished, making this "sea of ​​flowers" instantly lively.

A friend clamped his camera under the armpit, and went closer to see a flower with tung tungs, and turned back to me that the tung tung was divided into male flowers and female flowers. I thought about it, picked up a flower that was taken by others as a camera prop, and carefully observed it: five white petals, the base has obvious red pulses, this pulse is quite effective for the use of beautiful face faces, the effect of beautiful face faces, the utility of the beauty face , But the original intention should not be attractive, but to guide the visiting insects. I opened the petals and saw two rounds of stamens. I did not find the structure of the child room and the pistil. Presumably, I picked it up. What friends see are also male flowers. Although we did not find female flowers, we could see a few fruits on the branches. Some of them were dry and could also prove the existence of female flowers.

This fruit reminds me of what I have seen for many days. There is a processing factory on the street where I have lived, and the tung oil squeezed tung oil squeezed in the bucket in front of the processing factory. The street is close to a big river, and the transportation on the river has bred the prosperous business around the river. There are many places that are now called "ancient cities", which are traces of trade prosperity brought about by water traffic. In the past, my hometown also retained a lot of wooden structures, and each piece of wooden board was brushed with tung oil. There are also large shipyards upstream. Tung oil is also a necessary waterproof material for shipyards. Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, people eat a kind of rice streaming with large leaf leaf. There will be a certain rats of grass in the rice race, which makes the beef show deep green and has some smell of rats. A friend once thought that the tung tung was in the family of Euphorbia, which was poisonous. According to his understanding, he can't eat food with the leaves of the tung tung. I have carefully asked the elders that Bao Mi's oil tung leaves did not go through any special process processing, but just steamed them together after wrapping. This approach has been circulating for a long time, and I have not heard that someone is poisoned. But treat the entrance carefully, but it should be. When I talked about poisoning, the elders laughed and said that it might be a tung oil to be eaten by mistake. Although Tong oil is very fragrant when heated in the pot, if you really eat it, there will be severe diarrhea and other symptoms. After squeezing, the remaining tung seed shells will be placed under the orchard tree, which can not only increase the fertility of the soil, but also have a certain effect of insect repellent. These are the experiences that have accumulated oil tung as an important crop that year. Although there are no small tung trees here, looking at the fruit that has not been taken on the tree, you can know that the tung tung here has not been regarded as a economic crop.

My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the call of my friend. He excitedly called: "Dozens of raptor poultry flying over the ridges behind the back." We twisted our heads and recognized the general position with the naked eye. past. Those raptors were hovering in the "eagle column", flying along the ridge to the other end of the mountain. Friends found a better position to observe, and distinguished the species: most of them were ordinary 鵟, and from time to time, there were boots sculptures, black carved, sparrow eagles, goshawks, red aes, and crickets. In the spring migration season, there have been raptors flying over one after another.

△ Captain Bee Eagle (Photography Wang Jin)

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