There is a dumpling living in a balloon.

Introduction to the author: one-hand brush and one-hand flowers: garden major, love plants and nature since childhood, look forward to always be engaged in plant-related work, only beautiful flowers and delicious food in the world can not be failed, Weibo @ one-hand brush and one-hand flowers

Nailhead fruit, is an interesting plant, flowers Qiaoguoqi, fascinating.

I had only seen him in a flower shop before. The clerk called him balloon fruit and sold him as flowers. Now some parks in the southern provinces will also plant nails as greening plants. As a green plant, he not only grows interesting, but also attracts a variety of butterflies to surprise visitors.

I used to think that Gomphocarpus physocarpus and G. fruticosus belong to the genus Asclepiadaceae, and there is no difference. Later, when I saw the Weibo of the Great God @ South Gate, I knew that there were at least two kinds of nailheads: "the obtuse nails are closely related to the nailheads, the blunt nails are relatively round, and they are commonly used in flower art, such as balloons and sugar wool." the nailhead fruit becomes pointed at the end, like a beak. "

Not by the brain, "blunt" is that the sharp mouth has been knocked flat. Thus it can be seen that the round balloons I usually see are blunt nailheads.

[1] Nailou By Bernard DUPONT,CC BY-SA 2.0

[2] By Amatulic, CC BY-SA 3.0

The blunt nail head fruit is an evergreen shrub with slender leaves as long as willow leaves, famous fruit and ingenious flowers. Cymes grow in leaf axils. I see a cluster of flowers ranging from three to nine, with the most seven flowers arranged in triangles or even nearly equilateral triangles, full of mathematical beauty. When the flowers are not in bloom, they are bulged into five-pointed stars, which are more wonderful after blooming. the five-petal petals are white, the edges are fine, and the purple-pink Corolla is pocket-shaped, making the whole flower three-dimensional.

Some plants have not yet blossomed, while others have gradually bulged up. There are many soft thorns on the exocarp, like inserting nails, which may be the origin of the name "nailhead". The inflated fruit, like an inflated balloon, has a nickname for balloon fruit, like an angry puffer fish, and a name for puffer fish fruit. All kinds of flower names all tell the loveliness of this bulging bag.

Such a chic fruit, don't you want to know what structure is inside? Anyway, I am quite curious. If I hold it in my hand and squeeze it, will it leak? I want to pierce this balloon and see how wonderful it is. Then there is the process of tearing the blunt nailhead fruit with my hand. As soon as the fruit was separated from the branches, there was a wealth of juice, milky white, milk-like, sticky, tearing open a thin cyan coat, inside which lived a long-haired dumpling, peeled and filled with sesame seeds, wrapped in white sesame seeds in an immature state. One fruit, one world, one ball, one dumpling.

The flower row is made into a triangle, the fruit is bulged into a balloon, and a dumpling lives in the balloon. This is the wonderful blunt nailhead fruit.

Note: nailhead juice may cause allergy or poisoning, if there is any touch, please wash your hands in time. People who are prone to allergies and children should avoid contact.

[1] By Bernard DUPONT,CC BY-SA 2.0

[2] By Amatulic, CC BY-SA 3.0

Author: one hand paintbrush, the other hand flower

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