What is the integrity and character of plum blossom?

The character of plum blossom is firm, noble, strong and modest, which gives people a kind of motivation to work hard. Therefore, people always use plum blossoms to describe people who are proud, noble, indomitable, indomitable, poor but virtuous. Plum blossom's integrity is not to compete with flowers, not to compete with flowers for spring, she only blooms alone in the cold winter, leaving fragrance. It is a gentleman's tolerance to bloom alone in the cold and fierce.

Mei: small trees, sparse shrubs, 4- 10 meters above sea level, light gray or green bark, smooth; Branchlets are green, smooth and hairless. Leaf blade ovate or elliptic, leaf margin usually with small sharp serrations, grayish green. Flowers solitary or sometimes two peanuts in the bud of 1, 2-2.5 cm in diameter. They are fragrant and open before the leaves. Calyx is usually reddish brown, but in some varieties, calyx is green or green purple, petals are obovate, white to pink. The fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish-white, pilose, sour in taste, with sticky pulp and oval nucleus with slightly flat sides. It blooms in winter and spring and bears fruit in May-June.

Distribution of origin

Cultivated varieties are all over the country, but most of them are in the provinces south of the Yangtze River basin, and there are also a few varieties in northern Jiangsu and southern Henan. Some varieties have been successfully introduced in North China. Japan and North Korea also have it.