Night incense used to have a flower name.

The living habits of evening primrose:

Nocturnal incense grows mostly in woodland or bushes. Like warm, moist, sunny, well-ventilated, loose and fertile soil, drought and barren, not waterlogging, not cold-resistant, stop growing after defoliation in winter; branches and long leaves after spring, with axillary buds or flower buds in each node, lateral branches and inflorescences continue to occur with growth, generally blossom in May-October, and smell fragrant when flowering, more fragrant at night. Winter results.

Morphological characteristics of evening primrose:

Evening incense branchlets weak, hairy, milky. Leaves opposite; leaf blade broadly ovate, cordate to rectangular-orbicular-ovate, long 4~9.5cm, broadly 3~8cm, apex shortly acuminate, base deeply cordate, entire, basal palmately veined 7-9, margin and veins hairy. Cymes axillary, with as many as 30 flowers; Corolla lobes 5, rectangular round, yellowish green, fragrant, especially at night, so it is known as "night incense" and "night fragrance"; Corona 5-lobed, fleshy, shorter than anthers, inserted on gynostemma, apex acuminate; pollen block 1 per locule, oval, erect. Follicles lanceolate, long 7.5cm, exocarp thick, glabrous. Seeds broadly ovate, ca. 8mm, apical with white sericeous seed hairs.

The flower words of night incense:

The flower language of night incense is pure heart, happiness, beauty, independence and rebellion.

Flower divination: you are full of the flavor of the times, like adventurous and exciting things, and good publicity, hoping to become the focus of other people's eyes. You are good at showing your best side, but also actively cover up your shortcomings, for love is just a moment of impulse, and then forget all about it.

Classification of evening primrose varieties:

There are 12 species of late fragrant jade of the same genus, but only late fragrant jade is cultivated and used, and there are not many varieties, mainly as follows:

(1) Albino: a single variety formed by bud transformation, with pure white flowers.

(2) Dwarf pearl: dwarf variety

(3) Var.flore-pleno

Hort: double flower variety

(4) Mexican

Early bloomi: single-petal, early-growing variety, annual flowering, flourishing in autumn

(5) Pearl: double variety, stem 75 cm-80 cm high, inflorescence short, flowers numerous and dense, Corolla short.

(6) Tall double: large flower double variety, flower stem long

(7) Variegale: the leaves are long and curved with golden stripes.

The use of evening primrose:

Nocturnal incense is mainly cultivated for viewing. Nocturnal incense has slender branches, blossoms in summer and autumn, and yellow-green flowers bloom in the evening. They are often used to decorate courtyards, windows, ponds and pavilions in the south. At the same time, it is a semi-wild vegetable eaten with fresh flowers and buds. It has the effect of clearing liver and clear eye. it can treat eye swelling and pain, measles, corneal nebula and so on.