So special flowers have you noticed?

The rainy season is coming, and it rains every day. In fact, I don't hate the rain. Raindrops fall in my flowerpot, which can moisturize my flowers. No matter how I water them, I can't achieve this. People here call Rain Water falling into the water. If the plants are always put indoors and don't grow well, they will suggest taking them outside and eating some falling into the water.

But it always rained to stop me from going to Dishuiyan. Today, when I saw that the rain was a little light, I hurriedly went to Dishuiyan to have a look. The car was driving on the way up the mountain, the fog was boundless, the mountain scenery in the distance was not very clear, and there was no pedestrian on the road. I drove all the way to the parking lot next to Baoshou Temple. I stopped. As soon as I opened the door, I felt a breath of fresh air blowing in my face. There is also a thin rain on my body.

The plants next to the parking lot are getting thicker. To my surprise, the raspberries have already borne fruit. When I came here some time ago, their flowers just spit out their buds, and now they have borne green fruit. I feel that there is a link missing in the middle. This is due to my negligence and laziness. Nature is changing all the time. I don't know what else I missed. If we want to make up this lesson, we will have to wait until next year.

The rattan of black raspberry crawled over many places and looked spectacular. Shi Zhen said: the five leaves are like white pewter, so it is called Wuhu, which is commonly known as the five-clawed dragon. He added: there are many cuts. Its vines are soft and angled, one branch and one beard, all five leaves. The leaves are long and glossy, with sparse teeth, green face and light back. In July and August, the buds are clustered, bluish white. The flowers are as big as millet and yellow. It is as strong as sunflower seed, green and purple, with fine seeds inside. Its white roots, such as fingers, long one or two feet, ramming many salivation slippery. It seems that there is more ink in the Compendium of Materia Medica on black berries.

The leaves of black raspberry are indeed very interesting, with 5 leaflets in the shape of bird feet. Look carefully at their leaves. The five leaflets are arranged like birds' feet. The middle leaflet is long or elliptic-lanceolate, the lateral leaflet is elliptic or long-elliptic, the petiole of the middle leaflet is very long, and the lateral leaflet is sessile or short-stalked. It's just that bird feet only have four toes. I feel that the leaves of raspberry are more coordinated and symmetrical. If there is no flowering, black raspberry and gynostemma pentaphyllum are more difficult to distinguish, but the old branches of black raspberry are red, only this move, you can distinguish between the two.

The inflorescence of black raspberry is axillary and is a compound dichotomous Cymes. The inflorescence of dichotomous Cymes belongs to a limited inflorescence, the flowering sequence opens from the center to the outside, the apical flower blossoms first, and after flowering, the inflorescence axis under the apical flower branches 1 to each side, and each branch branches on both sides again and again. Compound dichotomous Cymes are made up of several dichotomous Cymes. This inflorescence is a bit complex and looks like a schematic diagram of some kind of molecular structure.

The flowers of raspberries are often ignored by us because they are too small, but I see a different side in my macro lens. Calyx of black raspberry dish-shaped, small but inconspicuous. Petals 4, triangular-ovoid, curled backward, and green, easily mistaken for calyx. Stamens 4, lower ovary connate with disk, style short, stigma slightly enlarged. The disk is well developed and 4-lobed. If you look at it carefully, it looks a bit like a small candlestick. What we see is like a table of people sitting around playing mahjong, and the color matching is also very beautiful. I guess the black raspberries must have put all the delicious food on the disk. When pollinating insects visit the flowers, they just let them eat on the plate.

Because of the different degrees of development, in the same inflorescence, some are oval buds, some are flowering florets, and some have formed green fruits. Of course, in the end, they all turn into globular fruits that are dark purple when ripe. If these fruits can be preserved completely and pressed into specimens, it is really a good handicraft. Of course, it will be more difficult to press the fruit into a specimen.

Luckily, when I came down the mountain, I saw a large black raspberry blooming by the side of the road. I thought I was going to miss those little flowers. It seems that I can make up for them. I was tossing about slowly in the drizzle when a man from the village below came over and saw me shooting flowers with a tripod and said, "there is nothing to shoot here, but you are different. These things look beautiful. I told my daughter that I couldn't believe what was performed on TV. It was all photographed in this way." To look at things is to look at the real side.

I showed him the photos I took and told him, "I didn't pose. These are real. It's just that you haven't looked at them seriously."

Author: Xiao Wan Zi

Picture: meatballs