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Tang Mian is an ornamental plant with butterfly-shaped flowers and balloon-shaped fruit with light green and spiny hairs. The flowering period is from June to September. It can be used as a family pot ornamental and environmental greening plant. Now, let's take a look at Tang Mian's introduction.

Introduction of Tang Mian

Tang cotton, a plant, also known as nails, is native to Africa. Shrubby herbs. The plant height is about 2 meters. Stem erect, grayish green, with white hairs. The leaves are linear. Leaf blade linear or long lanceolate, like willow leaves. The surface is smooth, the leaf color is dark green, and the back is slightly light. Flowers axillary, Cymes, Corolla broadly ovoid, reflexed, corona cucullate, flowers white. The fruit is yellow, conical, with spines on the fruit surface and soft spines on the exocarp. The fruit is very thin, swollen and spherical, squeezed gently with the hand, seems to have air overflow, very much like a small balloon, the viewing period is long. The genus Marley of the family Lomaceae. Originally from South Africa. Branches white pilose. Leaf blade 5-10 m long and 0.6-0.8 m wide, lanceolate, nearly smooth. Umbels axillary, flowers 5-10, white, lobes revolute.

2. Morphological characteristics of Tang cotton.

1. Stem: erect shrub, 80-150 cm tall, with many branches, milky; branches slender, erect or obliquely ascending, twigs green, old branches gray-white, pilose.

two。 Leaves: leaves opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 10-13 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base obtuse and extending to petiole, papery, entire, surface glossy green, abaxially light green; both surfaces smooth and glabrous; middle rib slightly depressed on surface and conspicuously raised on abaxial surface, lateral veins obscure; petiole 0.5-0.9 cm long, smooth glabrous.

3. Flowers: flowers numerous, white, unscented, opening 0.9-1.1 cm in diameter, cymose-shaped; inflorescences drawn from petioles of opposite leaves, 2-4 cm long, slightly pilose; petiole slender, 1.2-2 cm long, pilose; Calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, 0.5-0.6 cm long, apex acuminate, hairy; Corolla 5-lobed from base Lobes ovate-long-elliptic, revolute, 0.7-0.8 cm long and 0.4 cm wide, apex obtuse, both surfaces smooth glabrous, hairy margin; stamen column ca. 0.4 cm long; coronal scales 5, ovate-white, 0.2-0.4 cm long, apex obtuse. The flowers are white to yellowish, with a very long flowering period and bloom from autumn to spring.

4. Fruit: the fruit is follicle, ovate or ovoid, 5-8 cm long and 3-6 cm in diameter, such as swollen balloons, hollow without pulp, containing most seeds, green at maturity, densely covered with bristles or spines, and scattered hairy; dehiscent after maturity, seeds ovoid, 0.3-0.4 cm long, without tufts, black at maturity, seeds with white villi can be scattered from spring to autumn. The fruit is yellowish green, oval and round, like an inflated balloon and an angry puffer fish, so it has the laudatory name of balloon fruit and puffer fish fruit, which is very strange. In the fruit, except for the seed, the fruit is hollow and fleshy, which is gently pinched by the hand, and then recovers later, much like a balloon.

5. Seeds: the fruit can burst by itself after ripening, and the upper part of the seed is epiphytic silver villi, shaped like a parachute, and the wind blows everywhere to sow seeds, so it is also known as Fengchuantang cotton.

6. Features: herbaceous erect shrubs of the family Aristidaceae, 80-150 cm tall, flowering from April to February of the following year, and can be seen in the mountains of central Taiwan and Alishan. Twigs green, old branches gray-white, slender erect.

III. Ecological habits of Tang Mian

Like high temperature, humid and sunny environment, not cold-resistant, slightly resistant to shade and drought, not cold-resistant, requiring fertile, loose and slightly acidic sandy loam, the winter temperature is not less than 10 degrees Celsius. It is suitable for planting in South China.

Fourth, the garden use of Tang cotton.

For gardening and flower arrangement. Potted plants beautify the garden. Tang Mian is a peculiar and interesting ornamental plant, which has the coexistence of flowers and fruits in autumn and winter, and has a long ornamental period. it can be cultivated in the open field to decorate the courtyard, and its cutting is a good material for flower arrangement.

5. The breeding mode of Tang cotton

Sowing, sowing, planting, spring and autumn are the suitable time for reproduction, the suitable temperature for seed germination is 20-25 ℃, and it can germinate in 15 days. The mature branches are 10-15 cm long, then the milk is washed away with clean water, and the roots can be planted in 20-30 days. Shelter should be selected for cultivation and support should be set up to avoid being blown down by the wind.

The fancy words of Tang Mian

Sweet and lingering.

The above is Tang Mian's knowledge. I hope I can help you.