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The embodiment of goodness and the symbol of punishing evil in Dai literature-- Di Yong Jinlian

Published: 2024-11-24 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/24, Diyong Jinlian, originally from Yunnan, China, is a Chinese specialty flower. The leaf armpit of the pseudostem is a real small flower, fragrant, delicate, yellow and green, adding a delicate beauty, the florescence is as long as half a year. Jinlian in Diyong was covered by a Buddhist monastery.

Diyong Jinlian, originally from Yunnan, China, is a Chinese specialty flower. The leaf armpit of the pseudostem is a real small flower, fragrant, delicate, yellow and green, adding a delicate beauty, the florescence is as long as half a year. Diyong Jinlian is designated as one of the "five trees and six flowers" by Buddhist monasteries, and it is also the embodiment of goodness and the symbol of punishing evil in Dai literature. Yunnan folk also use its stem juice to detoxify alcohol and make hemostatic medicine. now this beautiful plant has been introduced and cultivated in the tropical greenhouse of Beijing Botanical Garden.

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Morphological characteristics:

Plants clustered, with horizontal rhizomes. Pseudostems short, less than 60 cm tall, basal diameter about 15 cm, with persistent leaf sheaths at the base. Leaf blade long oval, up to 0.5 m long, about 20 cm wide, apex acute, base subrounded, bilaterally symmetrical, powdered.

Inflorescences erect, growing directly on pseudostems, densely globose, 20-25 cm long, bracts scarious, yellow or yellowish, with 2 rows of flowers, 4-5-flowered in each row; connate tepals ovate-oblong, apex with 5 (3-toothed) cleft, free perianth apex retuse, depressed with mucro.

Berry trigonous-ovate, ca. 3 cm long, ca. 2.5 cm in diam., outside densely hirsute, with many seeds in fruit; seeds large, oblate, 6-7 mm wide, dark brown or brown, smooth, with large white hilum on ventral side.

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Growth habits:

Light-loving plants like plenty of light and warmth. When the temperature is below 0 ℃, the aboveground parts will be frozen. Like fertile and loose soil. Easy to transplant. Mostly born on mountain slopes or planted in gardens; 1500-2500 m above sea level.

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Garden value:

When it blossoms, it is like a golden lotus gushing out of the ground, the landscape is very magnificent, and the garden is suitable for planting in front of windows, wall corners, rockery rocks or in pieces, as well as potted plants.

Medicinal value:

Flowers can be used as medicine and have the effect of astringent hemostasis. Treat leucorrhea, red avalanche and blood under large intestine. Stem juice is used to relieve alcohol and poisoning of Aconitum multiflorum.

 
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