Qionghua, also known as Collecting Eight Immortals, Iris, and Cowear Pearls. Qionghua is a kind of beautiful flower, which has been called beauty since ancient times, which also confirms its flower language: beauty and romance are symbols of perfect love. On Valentine's Day or when pursuing the right person, you can give Qionghua as a gift to express your love.
Qionghua likes light, is slightly tolerant to shade, likes warm and humid climate, is cold-resistant, and should grow in fertile, humid and well-drained soil. Cold-resistant, adaptable to general soil, born in wet and fertile places. Strong growth, strong germination ability and tillering ability, seeds have the habit of germination every other year. The fruit of Qionghua is a single drupe, and the endocarp is extremely hard and wrapped outside the seed. The harvest period of seeds is generally after 10 months, and the maturity is marked by the black exocarp of seeds. After harvesting, the seeds should be stored in sand, taken out the following year, washed off the pericarp, peeled off the seed shell (endocarp), or ground off part of the seed shell, or soaked in 0. 1% dilute acid solution for 24 hours to soften the seed shell before sowing. Untreated seeds are generally difficult to emerge in the same year. After sowing, cover the soil about 1.5 cm. When sowing in pots, you should always water and loosen the soil so that the seedlings can be unearthed as soon as possible.
Qionghua is distributed in southern Jiangsu, western Anhui, Zhejiang, northwestern Jiangxi, western Hubei and southern Hunan in China. Born in hills, hillsides, forests or bushes. Gardens are often cultivated. Qionghua is the flower of Yangzhou. Yangzhou people have a soft spot for Qionghua. Although the original is no longer there, Yangzhou people regard a kind of flower called Chrysanthemum Eight Immortals as Qionghua, which is carefully cultivated and cared for as a city flower. There is a Qionghua in daming temple, Yangzhou, which was planted in Kangxi period of Qing Dynasty, and has a history of more than 300 years. Qionghua is also the city flower of Kunshan. Lin Ting Park, which is famous for planting Qionghua, has become a must for tourists. Among them, the largest Qiongshu has a history of 350 years and is the best Qionghua.