Lan Fengtang's Miscellaneous Notes and Pingmei (2)

The leaf shape of the plum petals of the round spring orchid is the most attractive of all the petal-shaped flowers, and the curve of its plant shape is extremely beautiful. Mei petal bud is also the most delicate of all kinds of flower bud, below I say my experience and understanding on the grass shape of plum petal and flower bud.

(1) Leaves: Most of the two to three side leaves of plum petal grass are arched or sickle-shaped, which is caused by the strong veins of plum petal grass, so the tongue of plum petal flower will not roll back. Petiole thin thick hard, leaf Zhang put more symmetrical, leaf tip gradually thin, leaf tip sharp, edge leaf tip pocket, inner Zhang leaf width ratio is larger than outer Zhang leaf. The teeth on the edge of the leaf are fine, but not very regular. Sometimes the local teeth on the edge of the leaf are not easy to detect due to the reverse curl of the leaf edge, and the teeth are sometimes uneven. Leaf midvein rounded convex not much, lateral veins slightly hidden and light color reserved. Plum petals thick Zhang is not hard and soft, thin is not soft and glutinous.

(2) sheath: plum leaf sheath thick light embellished waxy rigid, tightly wrapped petiole, sheath tip inclined out, sheath end with white head or convergence of water color. Sheath veins rounded, new sheath veins also visible around color and sand halo.

(3) bract: plum petal flower bract color is more, a variety of shell color all come out plum petal. But all kinds of plum petals are decorated with sand halo, including the heart plum petals. The veins of the bracts are thin and waxy, soft and bright, orderly arranged, symmetrical, thin and restrained. Both sides of the veins gather color into halo, and the color of the bracts turns into sand. The upper and lower color difference of the bracts is larger, the bracts generally have white heads, white heads have texture, but some bracts do not have white heads, but they are convergent, texture is quite good, and water color. Bracts are colored and colorful.

(4) Bud: plum leaf bud tip and round, some white head shape, some color aggregation shape, new bud also cloth sand halo, color is beautiful and glutinous.

(5) Stem: The reed head of plum petal flower is slightly smaller than that of lotus petal, but it is also round.

The above is personal and for reference only. Inadequacies or mistakes are also expected to be corrected and supplemented.