A brief introduction to the latest Lantern Tree and frequently asked questions

Lantern tree is a deciduous shrub plant, as its name is, its flowers are more strange, the flowers are bell-shaped, hanging at the end of the branches, like small lanterns, and the leaves change from green to red in autumn. Let's take a look at this strange plant.

Morphological characteristics

Alias bell flower, daughter red, deciduous shrub, plant height 3-6 meters, a few up to 10 meters; leaves are mostly born at the top of branches, oblong or oval, apex slightly pointed, base cuneate, margin serrated, leaf surface smooth and glabrous. Flowering in May, flowers drooping, fleshy red, Corolla broadly campanulate; fruiting period from June to October, the capsule is oval. Seen from afar, it is like a lantern flower planted at the top of a tree, and its leaves will change color after autumn, just like maple leaves.

Growth habit

Like light, half-overcast and cold-resistant. Resistant to drought, not strict with the soil, but like to grow in calcareous soil. Strong vitality, fewer diseases and insect pests, easy to manage. Lantern trees are mostly born in arid mountains at an altitude of 1000 meters, and are mostly distributed in Anhui, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan.

Main value

Ornamental value: in addition to its ornamental value of flowers and leaves, it also has a special skill, it has a strong ability to absorb phosphorus, so its leaves contain a lot of phosphorus, and at night, the leaves release a small amount of phosphine gas, these gases ignite very low, will spontaneously ignite a light blue flame, in a clear and windless night, from a distance, like a Zhan street lamp.

The above is the lantern tree introduction, although the lantern tree is a good ornamental tree species, but it is toxic, its flowers and leaves can extract chloride, highly toxic, as little contact as possible.