The withering time of plum blossoms

Plums wither in autumn. It blooms in winter and spring and bears fruit in May-June.

Growth habit

Meixi has a warm climate, weak cold resistance, drought resistance and waterlogging resistance, and a long life span of up to a thousand years. The flowering period is particularly sensitive to climate change, and the air humidity in Meixi is relatively high, but the flowering period avoids heavy rain.

morphological character

Small trees, sparse shrubs, 4- 10 meters above sea level; Bark light gray or greenish, smooth; Branchlets are green, smooth and hairless. Leaf blade is ovoid or ovoid, 4-8 cm long and 2.5-5 cm wide, with tip and tail tip, wide wedge-shaped to round base, leaf margin with small sharp serrations, grayish green, pubescent on both sides when young, gradually falling off when growing, or pubescent only between inferior veins; Petiole length 1-2 cm, hairy when young, shedding when old, often with glands.

Flowers solitary or sometimes two peanuts in 1 bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, with strong fragrance, opening first and then leaves; Pedicel is short, about 65438 0-3 mm long, often glabrous; Calyx is usually reddish brown, but some varieties of calyx are green or green purple; Calyx tube broadly campanulate, glabrous or sometimes pubescent; Sepals ovate or suborbicular, apex obtuse; Petals obovate, white to pink; Stamens short or slightly longer than petals; Ovary densely pilose, style short or slightly longer than stamens.

The fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, pilose and sour; Mucosal nucleus; The nucleus is oval, with a round top and a small protruding tip, the base gradually narrows into a wedge shape, the two sides are slightly flat, the abdominal edge is slightly blunt, there are obvious longitudinal grooves on the ventral and dorsal sides, and there are honeycomb holes on the surface. It blooms in winter and spring and bears fruit in May-June.