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The Beginning of Autumn unexpectedly has passed, time really unwittingly slipped through the fingers. It may be that Guangdong is so hot these days that I just want to sleep with the air conditioner on. I didn't have time to pay attention to it. After all, in the tropical city of Zhongshan, it is not until November that autumn really begins.

While the summer is long and the sun is still roasting the earth, just write a more suitable plant, a flower that looks like it has been roasted-shrimp flower.

The flower of Shrimp is a multi-branched herb of the genus Artemisia, but although it is an herb, it often grows into a shrub. I don't have to tell you, you can tell where the name came from when you look at it.

However, we didn't invent the name, because it comes from as far away as Mexico, and the English common name Mexican shrimp plant is already called Mexican shrimp grass. Therefore, everyone can see that image is such a thing.

Since it entered China, we, who especially like to pay attention to the head of mind, have constantly given it new nicknames in order to express the love of prawns. For example, the name of the auspicious animal Kylin is used on its body, which is called Kirin spitting beads. But the unicorn has never seen anyone, or shrimp is better, at least can eat.

The shape of the flower is very unique, with a string of tight terminal spikes, with a brick red color, like layers of bright shrimp shells. Even the slightly curved top looks particularly vivid.

Similar to the Di Chung Golden Lotus mentioned a few days ago, the shrimp shells that attract us are botanically called bracts. Its ovate heart-shaped and imbricate bracts are actually abnormal leaves rather than real petals.

Freshly baked immature red yellow-green bracts, of course, these bracts are not born to look like shrimp shells, but like prawns mature, there is a process of change. Due to the influence of chlorophyll, the primary ones are yellowish green, and then the content of chlorophyll decreases gradually, the content of anthocyanins increases gradually, and finally shows the appearance that attracts us to see.

This is the case in the plant world, everyone has to find ways to win attention, otherwise they will be eliminated, and this elimination is still fatal. In addition to attracting bees and butterflies to attract insects and birds, these bracts are also responsible for protecting delicate flowers from harm.

The real white flower is because the real flower is very small and tender. Well, it is solitary in the axil of the bract, and the white one is. Its flowers are inconspicuous, and its slender shape can not be seen until it comes out of the bracts, just like the limbs of white flowers growing out of a lobster shell.

Its Corolla tube is narrow bell-shaped, and its cornice is two-lipped. The upper lip is erect, entire or emarginate into 2 lobes, and the lower lip is 3-lobed, with some red furfur-like spots on it. Between the lips is a long protruding style and two more prominent stamens.

The Corolla tube is narrow bell-shaped and the cornice is two-lipped. This flower is also mentioned earlier as the so-called white pearl in the unicorn beads, and Kirin certainly refers to the shrimp shell full of bracts.

Oh, by the way, because the bracts of shrimp flower are so numerous, soft and overlapping, the whole inflorescence always shows a drooping posture at the end, so it is also called foxtail wood.

Like several fresh prawns jumping on the emerald green branches and leaves as a typical tropical flower native to Mexico, friends in the north want to see it basically in a botanical garden or greenhouse. As for the south, the flowers can bloom all the year round, there is no way, it is too hot, ripe quickly.

From a distance, it looks like a number of fresh prawns jumping on the emerald green branches and leaves, but unfortunately can not eat.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: village pick-up Flowers (ID:cunlishihua), author: WingJyunGu

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