What are the nicknames of five-colored plum?

Another name for five-colored plum

Shandadan, Ruyi grass, colorful flowers, Wuleidan, five-color hydrangea, discolored grass, bright red hydrangea

Growth habits of Prunus mume

Like light, like warm and humid climate. It has strong adaptability, drought and barren resistance, but not cold resistance, and grows better in loose, fertile sandy loam soil with good drainage. The florescence is from June to October. Sex likes a warm, moist, sunny place. Drought-resistant, slightly shady, not cold-resistant. It is basically cultivated in the open field in the south and can be used as a potted ornament in the north. The requirement of soil quality is not strict, and the fertile and loose sandy soil grows best.

This species is a tropical plant, like high temperature and humidity, but also resistant to dry and hot, cold resistance is poor, keep the temperature above 10 ℃, leaves do not fall off. Avoid ice and snow, strong adaptability to soil, drought and moisture resistance, lax fertility requirements.

Morphological characteristics of Prunus mume

Five-colored plum is an evergreen shrub with a height of 1-2m, and sometimes the branches grow in the shape of a vine. Stems and branches are square, pubescent, usually with short barbed spines. Simple leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, apex acuminate, base rounded, both sides rough and hairy, crumpled with strong smell, head axillary in the upper part of branches, each inflorescence more than 20 flowers, Corolla tube slender, tip more than five-lobed, shaped like plum blossom. Corolla color is varied, yellow, orange, pink, crimson. The flowering period is longer, and there are flowers almost all the year round when planted in the open field in the south, and the largest amount of flowers is from July to August in Beijing. The fruit is a spherical berry, purple-black when ripe. There are 150 species in the same genus, 2 species introduced and cultivated in China, and many horticultural varieties. The vine is half-vine-shaped with five-colored plum, and the flower color is rose red with bluish purple. The white plum blossom is mainly white. Yellow plum blossoms are mainly yellow.

The main value of five-colored plum

Viewing: the five-color plum blossom has beautiful color, long flowering period, green trees and flowers, gorgeous all the year round, strong resistance to dust and dirt. South China can be planted in parks and courtyards to make hedges and flowers, and it can also form green cover vegetation on both sides of the road and in the wilderness. Potted plants can be placed in front of the door, G Hall, bedroom and other places to watch, can also form flower beds.

Medicinal use: collect and process the root or the whole plant as medicine. It can be picked, dried or used freshly throughout the year. Sexual taste root: light, cold. Branches and leaves: bitter, cool, stinky. It's slightly toxic. Flowers: sweet, light, cool. Efficacy. Root: clearing heat and detoxification, dispelling knots and relieving pain. Branches and leaves: dispelling wind and relieving itching, detoxification and detumescence.

The flowery language of five-colored plum

Cheerful and lively