Ma Lin, you can call it that.

A nickname for Ma Lin.

Ma Lin, also known as Ma Lian, Ma Lan, Malan Flower, dry Pu, Li Shi, Litchao, Drama Grass, Shoushou, Sanjian, Horse leek. It belongs to perennial herbaceous perennial root plant of Iridaceae.

The function and value of Iris

It grows in wasteland roadside, hillside grass, saline-alkali meadow, and can be used for soil and water conservation, transformation of saline-alkali land, industrial wasteland, landscaping ground cover, edge or isolated planting, etc.

The whole plant can be used as medicine, which can clear away heat, stop bleeding and detoxify.

Leaves can be used as Bangza and straw materials, and the distribution in steppe is more common.

The Flower words and legends of Ma Lin

Ma Lin's flower language is: the lover of the old world, the messenger of love.

Malan commonly known as Malan flower or Malan flower, also known as Zhu Yingtai flower, legend, Ma Lin is not with Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai changed flower, shaped like a butterfly, is the messenger of love, the existence of Ma Lin is full of legend and solemn and stirring.

Up to now, the Greeks often plant this flower in the graveyard, that is, they hope that the soul after death can be entrusted to Alice to bring back to heaven.

Morphological characteristics of Iris officinalis

Iris lanceolata is a perennial herb.

Rhizome stout, woody, obliquely extended, surrounded by a large number of dense red-purple broken old leaf sheaths and hairy fibers; fibrous roots thick and long, yellowish-white, less branched. Leaves basal, tough, grayish green, striate or narrowly sword-shaped, ca. 50 cm long, 4-6 mm wide, apex acuminate, base sheathlike, reddish purple, without obvious midrib.

Flowering stems smooth, 3-10 cm high; bracts 3-5, herbaceous, green, margin white, lanceolate, 4.5-10 cm long, 0.8-1.6 cm wide, apex acuminate or long acuminate, containing 2-4 flowers; flowers blue, 5-6 cm in diameter; pedicels 4-7 cm long Perianth tube very short, ca. 3 mm, outer perianth lobes oblanceolate, 4.5-6.5 cm long and 0.8-1.2 cm wide, apex obtuse or acute, claws cuneate, inner perianth lobes narrowly oblanceolate, 4.2-4.5 cm long and 5-7 mm wide, claws narrowly cuneate; stamens 2.5-3.2 cm long, anthers yellow, filaments white; ovary fusiform, 3-4.5 cm long.

The capsule is long elliptic columnar, 4-6 cm long and 1-1.4 cm in diameter, with 6 distinct ribs and a short beak at the tip; the seeds are irregular polyhedron, brown, slightly glossy. The flowering period is from May to June and the fruiting period is from June to September.

The living habits of Ma Lin

Iris is not strict with the soil. As long as it has a certain soil layer, it can grow normally on all types of soil. It can withstand the extremely low temperature of-30 ℃ and the high temperature of 40 ℃. It can survive the winter and summer normally in the northern area.

Its roots and leaves have a drought-resistant structure, which can grow normally, blossom and bear seeds after watering only 2 or 3 times a year.

It is extremely saline-alkali tolerant, the seeds can germinate normally under the condition of 0.4% salt content, and the plants can grow and develop normally under 0.5% salt content and 8.8 pH value.

Has a very strong resistance to diseases and pests, rodent damage ability, general Iris seeds or vegetation never occur disease, pest and rodent damage, mixed with other vegetation also rarely occur disasters. However, under the conditions of drought, high temperature, barren and harsh environment, the aboveground growth of Iris will decrease, and the root system will be more developed to ensure its normal survival in the adverse environment.

Distribution of producing area of Iris officinalis

Malin originated in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Xizang.

Born in wasteland, roadside, hillside grasslands, especially in overgrazed saline grasslands, but also in Korea, the former Soviet Union and India.

Iris chinensis has a wide natural distribution, developed root system, strong resistance and adaptability, and saline-alkali tolerance, which determine that it is very suitable for soil and water conservation and saline-alkali land greening in dry climate and soil desertification areas in northern China.

Appreciation of Ma Lin pictures