A Gorgeous and Fragrant Orchid Scenery--Appreciation of Butterfly Flowers and Strange Flowers

In the colorful flower world, it is difficult to find a flower like the Chinese orchid, whose shape and color are ever-changing and unpredictable. The shape and color of Chinese orchids are diversified and varied, especially butterfly flowers and strange flowers.

What is a butterfly? Orchids hold petals or calyx petals in part or all of the tongue petals or quasi-tongue petals, opening shape and color like flying butterflies, hence the name butterfly. What is a strange flower? The number of petals and core column (nose) of each orchid is more or less or odd than that of conventional orchids, and some flower shapes or petals also change obviously. this kind of flowers are called strange orchids if they are very rare and have ornamental value in orchids.

Butterfly flowers and strange flowers can be said to be a gorgeous and fragrant landscape of orchids, which attracts the attention of orchid friends.

Generally speaking, the appreciation of the shape and color of national orchids, butterflies and strange flowers is later than that of colored flowers, vegetarian flowers and general petal flowers, and later than the leaf art of Japanese orchids. According to orchid historical records, the early butterfly flowers of superior taste are Chunlan Sixi butterflies (appeared in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in about 1920s, see "Lan Hui Xiao Shi"), and multi-petaled strange flowers are Chunlan green clouds (it is said that during the reign of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, about 1869, Chen in Liuxia Town of Hangzhou was collected and cultivated from nearby Wuyun Mountain). (the first fragrant Notes and the four theories of Yilan in the Qing Dynasty are similar to bees and butterflies, but there is no flower name. At the same time and then appeared, there are Yang's butterfly, stamen butterfly, Yu butterfly, dance butterfly, rare butterfly, small butterfly, spring butterfly and so on, which established the appreciation status of butterfly in orchid. The emergence of a large number of strange flowers such as multi-petals and multi-noses is a later thing. It can be said that the appreciation of butterflies and strange flowers of orchids originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In the latter half of the 20th century, when the orchid wind in Taiwan Province was in full swing, Wei and Mo Lan and Jian Lan (this kind of orchids produced more in Taiwan and Fujian), there appeared Mo Lan (Orchid) Butterfly, Qiankun Butterfly, Hua Guang Butterfly, Wen Han Qi Butterfly, Qitun Kylin, Jade Lion, Guoxiang Peony, Fusui and so on. And then built orchid butterfly flower treasure island fairy, reviving strange butterfly and so on. After the Chinese mainland opening up and reform, a large number of orchid resources have been developed, and a large number of orchids, Jian orchids, spring orchids, cymbidium, cold orchids, lotus orchids, bean orchids, spring swords, sending spring and so on have also appeared a large number of admirable butterfly flowers and strange flowers. At this point, butterflies and strange flowers are a great spectacle in the orchid world, and their appreciation value and trade price are also popular because of their butterflies and strangeness, often selling for more than ten thousand yuan per plant. The field of orchid appreciation has also been greatly expanded. Orchid butterfly, strange flower its cultivated varieties are also butterflies, strange and strange, often for orchid colleagues to chase for reward.

The reason for the emergence of so many orchid butterfly flowers and strange flowers is that there are three factors in terms of the ecology of orchids: first, orchids are insect-pollinated flowers, which need to be pollinated by insects and effectively attract insects to pollinate. Therefore, in the course of its evolution, the inner three petals, the lowest one evolved into tongue petals (lip petals), and appeared colored spots and stripes similar to insect bodies or wings. Let the insects mistakenly think that they are of the same kind and swoop in. In the process of collecting honey, they also complete the pollination of orchids, or bring the pollen blocks of this orchids to other orchids to cause cross-pollination. This phenomenon has been described in the pollination of orchids by the great biologist Darwin. In recent years, British botanists have also found that the shape and color of the tongue petals of some orchids have evolved into the shape of some female insects to attract male insects of the same kind to mate and be pollinated in the process of miscopulation. Some botanists have also observed that the tongue petals of orchids often grow into flat forward or pocket-shaped platforms for helicopter landing, allowing insects to land smoothly or stay in their pockets for better honey collection and pollination. From this, we can infer that in order to enhance its allure to insects, orchids further make their calyx petals or holding petals become tongue petals in the process of evolution, so that insects can be attracted from afar, so butterfly flowers appear. Second, it is precisely because orchids are insect-pollinated flowers, and most of the flowering periods of all kinds of orchids are crossed or delivered. When all kinds of insects fly in all kinds of orchids, it is easy to cross-pollinate, and in the case of natural ecological cross-pollination, there are also a variety of butterfly flowers and strange flowers. Third, atavism. According to Mr. Yang Diqing, a botanist in Zhejiang, because orchids are insect-pollinated flowers, insect pollination can increase their reproduction rate, and the number of flowers can be reduced in the process of evolution to save the material and energy of the plant itself. Therefore, we can take a comprehensive view of the evolution of orchids: inflorescences from panicles, short arrowheads, short arrowheads, solitary flowers; flowers by multiple short arrows The flower type evolved from the short arrowhead petals with the same shape as the calyx to the petal-shaped short arrowhead petals different from the calyx and the next petal evolved into a special-shaped tongue petal (lip petal). Today, we see some orchid butterfly flowers, strange flowers, such as tree-shaped flowers, aggregate flowers, multi-petal butterfly, multi-petal wheel and so on, which are some atavistic phenomena of orchids. Nature is so wonderful, there are so many species variations. Orchids are so wonderful that they can produce so many kinds of flowers for us to watch.

Butterfly flowers can be divided into outer butterflies (calyx petal tongue petal, including skirt butterfly-lower calyx petal tongue flap downward elongated like skirt train), inner butterfly (holding petal tongue petal, including three-heart butterfly, four-heart butterfly, five-heart butterfly, cat-ear butterfly, rabbit-ear butterfly, tiger-ear butterfly, inner and outer butterfly, vegetarian butterfly, odd-petal butterfly, petaloid butterfly and so on. The odd flower can be divided into general multi-petal, multi-tongue and multi-nose flower, peony, chrysanthemum, water lily petal, mother and son flower, tree flower (branched flower), odd flower, Su Qi flower, less petal flower and so on. In short, butterflies can be appreciated, strange and observable are all good products, and those who cannot be appreciated or seen are inferior products. Generally speaking, each flower blossoms every year is more standardized, that is, there is a fixed law, or many changes can also be seen that the law of change is mostly a good flower. The occasional instability is inferior. Butterfly flowers, strange flowers plus leaf art are beautiful flowers and leaves. The above can be used as a reference for the selection of butterfly flowers and strange flowers.