Henna balsamina

Scientific name: Impatiensbalsamina

Name: GardenNalsam

Other names: nail grass, garden grass, golden flower, sprinkling golden flower, acute seed, peach

Family Name: Impatientaceae

Name: Impatiens

Adaptation area:

Originated in China, India and Malay Islands, China's central and southern widely cultivated.

Ecological classification: Herbs, biennial flowers

Category: Flowers

Morphological characteristics:

Annual herb, plant height 30-60cm. Stems fleshy, reddish brown or pale green, often associated with flower color, nodes dilated. Leaves simple, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, margin serrate, petiole base with two glandular points. Flowers solitary or several clustered leaf axils, lateral opening, sepals 3, both sides smaller, behind a larger saccate, the base has a distance, petals 5, white, pink, crimson, purple, purple and other colors, flowering June-October. Seeds tend to burst when mature.

Growth Habits:

Sun-loving, moisture-loving and well-drained soil training, not cold-resistant, self-sowing.

Myths and legends:

There is a god among the gods who has a dial in the fairy flower.

One day, the heart of God in fairyland deep wine to get, Jintao fruit was served on the banquet, unexpectedly less one. If God suspects that a fairy stole something, she will not judge it, but she will be expelled from fairyland. Fairy belly injustice wandering to the funeral, but er wait for her exhausted, bang before death she miscellaneous heart, hope injustice can be clarified.

after she died, she became a fairy flower. when the flower ripened, she would burst open at the touch of a thorn. she seemed eager for people to see her "heart," so people called her "impetuous."

In ancient times, there was nail polish, but beautiful ladies knew how to make good use of nature's source inkstone to dress themselves. She plucked the flower petals and dyed her nails with the juice of the petals, so the girl Fei Xianhua 'Zhiyouhua'.

Since Africa's African fairy, are fairy flower family, is the fairy flower especially sister, fairy flower characteristics it is not short of, flowers and more than fairy flowers, color is also multi-terminal, and all the year round can rub flowers, so into flowers of the hand guest. The seemingly weak African fairy has unexpected super-vitality.

Sentence true, it is easy to plant lung, and very Sassafras flower, the most unsuitable novice cultivation. A courtyard house or terrace, as long as there are three hours of sunshine a day, African fairy can flourish, Xinxin to.