Immortal love-- thousand-day red

Thousand-day red, alias: hundred-day red, fireball, amaranth, thousand-day red red annual erect herbs, 20-60 cm high; flowering and fruiting period from June to September. The flower color is bright and shiny, and the flower does not wither after it is dried, which remains the same for a long time, so it is named Qianyi Hong.

Thousand days of red sunshine, resistance to dry heat, strong nature, native to tropical America, for tropical and subtropical common flowers. For viewing, the flower head remains unchanged for a long time, not only as a flower bed and bonsai, but also as a wreath, flower basket and other ornaments.

Thousand days red

Annual erect herbs, 20-60 cm tall, stems stout, branched, branches slightly quadrangular, gray rough, denser when young, nodes slightly inflated. Leaf blade papery, long elliptic or rectangular-Obovate, 3.5-13 cm long and 1.5-5 cm wide, apex acute or obtuse, convex, base attenuate, margin undulate, speckled, white villous and ciliate on both surfaces, petiole 1-1.5 cm long, gray villous.

Thousand days red

Flowers numerous, densely, in terminal globose or rectangular heads, single or 2-3, 2-2.5 cm in diam., often purplish red, sometimes lavender or white; involucre 2-green opposite leafy bracts, ovate or cordate, 1-1.5 cm long, gray villous on both surfaces; bracts ovate, 3-5 mm long, white, tip purplish red Bracteoles triangular-lanceolate, 1-1.2 cm long, purplish red, sunken inside, neck acuminate, dorsal ribs serrulate; tepals lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, not spreading, apex acuminate, outside densely white woolly, not hardened after anthesis; stamen filaments connected to synthesize tubular, apical 5-lobed, anthers on inner side of lobes, slightly protruding; style strip, shorter than stamen tube, stigma 2, forked branched. Utricles subglobose, 2-2.5 mm in diam., seeds reniform, brown, shiny. The flower and fruit period is from June to September.

Thousand days red

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The thousand-day red flower period is long, the flower color is bright, is the fine garden ornamental flower. It is a commonly used material for flower beds and flower borders, and it does not fall after flowering, does not fade in color, and remains bright. It is cultivated in the north and south provinces of China. For viewing, the flower head remains unchanged for a long time, not only as a flower bed and bonsai, but also as a wreath, flower basket and other ornaments.

Medicinal use:

Inflorescence used in medicine, has the effects of relieving cough and expectoration, calming asthma, calming liver and eyesight, mainly treating bronchial asthma, acute and chronic bronchitis, pertussis, pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis and so on.

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Flower words: immortal love

People usually see purple, pink, white lovely "flowers" actual bracteoles, the real flowers are very small, buried in the middle of the bracts, very inconspicuous. Dried bracts can not fade for a long time. So the name of the flower is Qianri Hong. Flower language also comes from the characteristic that it is not easy to fade.