Which plant is the hero tree

1. The Chinese name for the hero tree is kapok. It is also known as the climbing flower, is a kind of mallow mallow family of plants. It is a relatively tall deciduous tree, able to grow to 10-25 m. Its flowering period in March-April, the flowers are large, red, with a masculine beauty.

2, the cottonwood has a dazzling alias is called the hero tree, why is the cottonwood was so high title? Here we know a story.

3, the legend in Hainan Island, there is a tribal leader called Ji Bei, he has many times the rate of the Li people against foreign enemies repeatedly won battles, y loved by the people. After the traitor betrayal by the enemy besieged in the mountains, he was hit by a number of arrows still standing on the top of the mountain, the body into a kapok tree, the arrow plume into a branch, blood into red flowers. In order to commemorate him, the descendants honored the kapok as the hero tree, the kapok flower called the hero flower.

4, in addition to the legend, the kapok tree is indeed full of heroism. You see it, always facing the sunrise, the great stand, copper branches, iron trunk, vigorously up, very handsome temperament and masculine beauty. It is loaded with cottonwood belongs to fast-growing, strong masculine tree species, the crown is always higher than the nearby group of trees, in order to fight for sunshine and rain.

5, it is green and leafy in summer, fall branches and leaves, winter bald branches and cold trees, spring a tree orange and red. Its tree height of up to 25 meters, in March to April each year to bloom, first bloom after growing leaves, bloom period full of branches and trunks adorned with colorful flowers, such as fire, dazzling, eye-catching, extremely magnificent. Kapok tree with its spirit of upward mobility and brightly colored like fire red flowers, the world known as the hero tree, hero flower.