The names of these plants used to be so interesting.

The names of plants are strange: there is a string of red, February orchid, pansy, four seasons laurel, schisandra, six wood, seven leaves and one flower, etc.; there are also roses, floor roots such as fresh literature. Do you know why these plants get their names? Small editor for your science popularization, come on up posture ~

appearance

The roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds of these plants usually have distinct characteristics,

When we hear the name, we can associate it with a certain appearance of the plant, let's call it the "appearance party".

named after leaves.

▲ Zanthoxylum nitidum:

Zanthoxylum nitidum has prominent thorns on both leaf surfaces and leaf backs.

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Bauhinia:

Leaf apex divided, shaped like sheep's hooves.

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Chinese mandarin tree:

That is, Liriodendron chinense, leaves shaped like mandarin jacket.

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Osmanthus:

Veins present "Gui" shape, add wood next to the word became "Gui"(osmanthus also has a name called osmanthus, because its wood texture like rhinoceros horn).

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Tortoise:

Leaves such as turtle shell, stem such as bamboo.

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Nepenthes:

small

cage

The seed is also part of the leaf.

named after flowers

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Iris:

Its leaves are flattened like kite tails.

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Spider egg:

That is, one-leaf orchid, flowering strange, like a spider holding an egg.

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Egg flower:

The petals are white and the flower center egg yolk looks like egg white wrapped around the egg yolk.

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Strelitzia:

The color is gorgeous and the shape is like a crane.

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Wintersweet:

Do not think that wintersweet is written as wintersweet, in fact wintersweet is its official name_named because of its waxy petals.

named after fruit and seed

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Horse urine bubble:

The fruit is inflated like a horse bladder. Some people have mistaken it for "Tianshan Snow Lotus", but in fact it is poisonous.

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Podocarpus:

Below the seed there is a red or purple fleshy expanded receptacle, the upper seed like a head, the lower receptacle like a cassock.

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Snakeskin Fruit:

The seed coat is like the scales of a snake.

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Octagon:

The fruit has eight horns. If it has more than 10 petals, it is a wild grass. Wild grass is poisonous!

named after the root.

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Sagittarius:

That's swallowtail. "One root gives birth to twelve sons every year, just like the sons of Sagittarius, so it is named after them."

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The small root of the arrowhead has a bulb at the end, which is the "child".

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Bleeding:

And the white and the white."

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Lily:

Its bulb is surrounded by many white scales, like lotus flowers.

named after a stem or branch

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Dragon Claw Tree:

The branches are like dragons bared their teeth.

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Buddha belly bamboo:

Internodes narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, like the belly of Maitreya Buddha.

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Clematis:

Stems as thin as iron wire, flowers like lotus.

color

Mainly based on the color of flowers and fruits of plants, the names of such plants have color.

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Rose:

Rose is the word next to the king, at first refers to a kind of gem, because the rose color and this kind of gem similar, so named.

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Hypericum:

Flowers and stamens golden yellow, shape like peach.

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Honeysuckle:

When the flowers bloom, they are white first and then yellow.

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Jasmine:

When flowering, the flowers are blue-purple first and then white. Blue purple and white flowers can be seen on the same plant at the same time, also known as two-color jasmine.

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Ginkgo biloba:

The seed coat is white and shaped like an apricot. (Ginkgo trees are also called Gongsun trees because they grow slowly and have a long life span. Under natural conditions, it takes more than twenty years from planting to bearing ginkgo fruits, and it takes forty years to bear a large number of fruits."The male seed is eaten by the grandson.")

habits

It is named according to the seasonal changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the time of flowering and fruiting, or the growth mode and habit of the plant.

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Yingchun:

The flowers bloom in February-April, when spring comes.

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Azalea:

When the cuckoo calls, the azaleas bloom.

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Qianrihong:

The flowers bloom almost all year round.

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Water Lily:

Daytime bloomers open in the morning and close in the afternoon; night bloomers are the opposite.

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Mimosa:

The leaves close shyly when touched.

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