What kind of flower is Yanlaihong?

Wild goose to red is also called old and young, tricolor amaranth, leaf chicken crown, old Laijiao, Xiangyang Hong, etc., for the amaranth family amaranth annual herbaceous plants, as excellent foliage plants can be used as flower bed background, hedgerows or roadside cluster planting, can also be planted in the lawn, with a variety of flowers and plants to form gorgeous patterns, can also be used for potted plants, cut flowers, leaf discoloration is "wild geese flying south", people give it a beautiful name-Yanlaihong.

Wild goose red stem erect, 15-45 cm tall, simple or branched, covered with glandular hairs. Lower leaves opposite, upper leaves alternate, broadly ovate, oblong and lanceolate, pilose, without petiole. Panicle Cymes terminal, pubescent, pedicels very short. Calyx cylindric, calyx lobes lanceolate-subulate. Corolla high dish-shaped, light red, crimson, purple, white, yellowish and other colors. Stamens and styles are much shorter than Corolla. Capsule ellipsoid, with persistent calyx below. Seeds oblong, brown.

Yanlaihong is native to tropical Asia, widely cultivated in China, and distributed in Chinese mainland, India, Japan, Central Asia and other places. Drought-resistant, not cold-resistant, like moist and sunny and well-ventilated environment, like fertile and well-drained soil, like moist and sunny and well-ventilated environment, avoid waterlogging and damp-heat. The requirement of soil is not strict, it is suitable for growing in fertile soil with good drainage, has certain alkali resistance and can self-sow and reproduce.

The sowing and breeding of wild goose to red is carried out in May in spring, and the direct seeding in open field is usually used. Keep out the light when sowing. Because the seeds fall to the ground naturally after maturity, the seeds must be collected in time. Pay attention to the management after sowing, keep the soil moist, keep the temperature at 15-20 ℃, and the seedlings can emerge in about 7 days. In the tropical low latitudes, it is often sown in winter, and the seedlings emerge from May to June of the following year. The top leaves can change color, and the ornamental period is relatively long.

Yanlaihong cuttage propagation is small, so it is rarely used, but it is often used in order to maintain the excellent characteristics of the mother plant, or can not meet the needs because of a small number of sowing seedlings, and it can also be propagated through cutting after the sowing season. Cutting is carried out in its growing season, cutting the middle and upper branches as cuttings, cut into 10-15 cm long, the cut should be flat, the lower incision is about 2 mm from the leaf base, and can be inserted into fine sand, vermiculite and perlite. If the cuttings were soaked in 0.1% ABD rooting agent for 1-2 days, the cuttings could take root 2-3 days ahead of time.

According to legend, on the bank of the Salt River, there is a young man named Yanzi and a girl named Hongxiang. the young man is handsome and the girl is beautiful. he is a pair of good men and women who weave, and they are engaged in marriage. One day, the local bully colluded with the government to send the wild goose to a distant place to do drudgery and forced Hongxiang to marry her bully son. Hongxiang was very angry and bumped to death under the tree. Later, flowers grew on her grave, and when the wild goose heard the news that Hongxiang was dead, she died of worry, and her body turned into a wild goose. When the wild goose flew to the red fragrant grave, the leaves of the flowers turned bright red, so the plant was called "Yanlai Hong".