Renhua Magnolia has a long history.

Author: Ling Xiaoyan

Renhua Magnolia has been established for hundreds of years with its "three unique". It has Yingrun leaves, flowers must come out of the shelves and fragrance. The products of Volume 11 of Shaozhou Prefecture Chronicles rebuilt by Guang Xu in the Qing Dynasty contain "Bailan produces benevolence, benevolence turns white, and its color is clear and fragrant." and Sun Yimin's Danxia Mountain Records in the period of the Republic of China, "Bai Lan produced in the elder of the mountain top, two conch peaks, its flowers are white. It can be seen that Renhua Bailan was loved by many literati as early as hundreds of years ago.

Renhua is located in the Lingnan Mountains, bordering Jiangxi and Hunan. The geographical climate of orchid growth is very superior. There are 18 mountains above sea level in the county, and the underground mineral deposits are very rich, totaling more than 40 kinds. Danxia Mountain, the world-famous Red Stone Park, is located in Renhua. The topography of the county is high in the north and low in the south, and the highest Wanshi mountain in the north is 1559 meters above sea level. The southern plain is only 70 meters above sea level. The annual rainfall is 1990 mm and the annual average temperature is 19.6 ℃. It is really advantageous for orchids. Therefore, there are more than ten species of orchids distributed in our county, which can be described as famous orchids. Renhua has appeared many famous products in the past decade: Danxia Damolan, black flower cold orchid, Renhua white Suqi, Renhua big color lotus (the author has been introduced in detail in another article) and so on.

In recent years, the author has investigated and collected Renhua Orchid with President Yang Zhaoxian of Renhua County many times and found that there are only 20 or 30 seedlings in many famous products, and the advertisements published in some magazines and the so-called Renhua Bai in the market, regardless of their flower posture, the leaf quality is very different from the authentic local Renhua white. Renhua Magnolia is still planted and propagated under the original conditions, and it has not achieved mass production fundamentally. Except for a small number of friends and relatives from other places given by a small number of orchid friends in this county, among the 20 or 30 varieties of Magnolia in this county, one more variety has 30 to 50 seedlings, the less variety has only 20 or 30 seedlings, and the total stock is up to several thousand seedlings. In order to let more orchid friends know and understand Renhua Magnolia, the author introduces ten representative varieties of Renhua Magnolia here:

① broad-leaf Renhua melon seeds white-robust plant type, leaves dark green and slightly magnificent, drooping and glossy, leaf tail toad mouth, leaf margin has obvious serrations, leaf length about 30cm, leaf width 1.2cm, 3murine 5 leaves clustered, flowers for lotus petals, roots fine, named after inverted melon seeds, flowers milky white, outer three milky white medium green, falling petals and tongue petals snow white. The flowers come out of the shelves and have a strong aroma. At present, there are only 30 or 40 seedlings in Renhua.

② broad-leaf Renhua Dahuasu (commonly known as Zhu Desu)-in 1962, Chairman Zhu de sent two guards together with a flower engineer from Shaoguan Park at that time to Renhua to look for orchids. He got his name from the ten seedlings of Dahe Su, which has been handed down for several generations in the home of a village committee secretary in Fuxi Town, Renhua County. This orchid plant type is strong, the leaf is dark green, the leaf is 30 to 40 centimeters long, 1.2 centimeters wide and half standing. The leaf tail is round and blunt, the leaf edge is inconspicuously serrated, the leaf texture is strong and smooth, fine waxy and glossy, the flower is large, nearly twice as many as the common lotus, the flower is fragrant, the flowering period is long, and its flowers can be seen from June to November. This orchid is a rare species with both leaves and leaves. Renhua has only about 100 seedlings at present.

③ soft Jian Renhua Bai (commonly known as Youdong Bai)-"Renhua Bai, world-famous, all take this as the top grade, the leaves are smooth, seem to be on the broad sword, but the flowers are small, slightly inferior to the melon seed petal, but also Erhui's competition is cool." (picked from Lingnan Lanyan in the Qing Dynasty) this orchid flower type is second only to Renhua melon seeds, leaf posture, leaf quality is better than other Magnolia, and can be regarded as outstanding among Magnolia. Its leaf length is more than 30 cm, leaf width 1 cm, leaf color dark green and glossy, leaf tail sharply pointed, leaf edge entire, flowers are lotus petals, milky white, fragrant, after flowers are in full bloom There is a black pearl on the stamen column from the bottom to the top (so it is also called the black pearl).

④ Danxia Su (commonly known as Ba Hang Tou)-- "Danxia Mountain water clear strange, majestic accumulation, Qingshu gas, not in also, this kind of leaf height of more than a foot, feet An enterprise, flowers eight or nine, high and leaf Qi, although slightly close to cyan, nine Ye Zhong pushed as outstanding. Monk Danxia first got this, and the secret was Hongbao, lest he should be taken away by the powerful, and in the secret room. When the flowers bloom, they do not show each other until they are in full bloom. After that, Daliang Li bought it from him, tossed and turned back, carefully identified it, also iron armor Daqing, and out of the shelf white, the second of the two. " (picked from Lingnan Lanyan in the Qing Dynasty) the orchid leaves are 30-40 cm long and 1 Mel 1.8 cm wide, with green and glossy leaves, drooping, inconspicuously serrulate, petals of general lotus petals, emerald green, off shelves and strong fragrance. At present, there are about 200 seedlings in Renhua.

⑤ Chiya Bai, a new variety of Renhua Baizhong discovered and excavated in Renhua in the past two years, has been found to have broad leaves, narrow leaves, enterprise swords, soft swords and so on. Compared with ordinary Magnolia, this flower is clearer and purer, and its fragrance is clearer, but only dozens of seedlings have been found.

⑥ Renhua broad-leaf enterprise sword white-its leaf color, leaf situation are first-class, length, size, just right, leaf length 30 cm, leaf width 1.2-1.8cm, leaf edge inconspicuously serrated, leaf thick and shiny, straight to the blue sky. This flower is a lotus petal, off the shelf, fragrant, Renhua only a hundred seedlings.

⑦ Renhua fine leaves enterprise sword white-leaves about 30cm long, 0.6-1.2cm wide, leaf edge has obvious serrations, bamboo petals, light green frame, strong fragrance.

⑧ (fine leaf enterprise sword white variety)-its plant type, leaf condition, flower pattern and flower posture are no different from those of fine leaf enterprise sword white, but there are short yellow stripes on each leaf, so it is called Saginsu.

⑨ Renhua broad-leaved white-leaf length 30cm, width 1.5cm-2.5cm, leaf tail sharp tip, leaf color dark green, leaf margin entire, leaf thick glossy, flowers for the general lotus petal, color white and tender green, out of shelves, strong aroma, Renhua only dozens of seedlings.

⑩ twist sword benevolent white-"Renhua Bai is famous for being quiet and elegant. This time is soft and thick, strange and positive phase, roughly similar to multi-flower element, which is a variant in Renhua species (excerpted from Lingnan Lanyan in the Qing Dynasty). This orchid leaf is 30-40 cm long and 0.8-1.5 cm wide, the leaf color is green and slightly yellow, the leaf edge is inconspicuously serrated and shiny, the petals are bamboo petals, tender green, the flower is off the shelf, fragrant, at present Renhua has 300 to 400 seedlings.