What are the top ten famous flowers in China?

The top ten famous flowers in China are plum blossom, the king of flowers-peony, blooming frost flower-chrysanthemum, gentleman flower-orchid, the queen of flowers-rose, blooming flower-azalea, delicate flower-camellia, hibiscus in water-lotus, fragrant flower-osmanthus, and Ling Bo fairy-daffodil.

First, plum blossom

Mei (scientific name: Xingmei? Sibu. ): small trees, sparse shrubs, 4- 10 meters above sea level; Bark light gray or greenish, 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 1 bud, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, with strong fragrance, opening first and then leaves; Calyx is usually reddish brown, but some varieties of calyx are green or green purple; Petals obovate, white to pink.

The fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, pilose and sour; Mucosal nucleus; The nucleus is oval with slightly flattened sides. It blooms in winter and spring and bears fruit in May-June. 2n= 16，24 .

Second, peony flowers

Peony (scientific name: peony? Andre. ): Dicotyledonous plants, Paeoniaceae, Paeonia, perennial deciduous shrubs. The stem is 2 meters high; The branches are short and thick. The leaves are usually bipinnately compound, with green surface, hairless, light green back and sometimes white powder. The petiole is 5- 1 1 cm long and the leaf axis is hairless.

Flowers solitary, bracts 5, oblong; Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, petals 5 or double, rose, purple, pink to white, usually changing greatly, obovate, with irregular waves at the top; Anthers oblong, 4 mm long; Disk leathery, cup-shaped, purplish red; Carpels 5, densely pilose. Kelp is rectangular with dense yellow-brown bristles. Flowering in May; The fruiting period is June.

Third, chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum is one of the top ten famous flowers in China, one of the four gentlemen among flowers (Prunus mume) and one of the four cut flowers in the world (chrysanthemum, rose, carnation and gladiolus), with the highest yield. Because chrysanthemums are cold and proud of snow, there is Tao Yuanming's famous sentence, "Pick chrysanthemums under the east fence and see Nanshan leisurely."

People in China have the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. Tang Meng's "Passing the Old Village": "Wait until Shan Ye Holiday, I will come back in the chrysanthemum season." In ancient myths and legends, chrysanthemums are also endowed with the meaning of good luck and longevity.

Fourth, orchids

Orchid (scientific name: cymbidium? Subspecies): Monocotyledon, Orchidaceae and Orchidaceae. Epiphytic or terrestrial herbs, with several or at most leaves, usually born at the base or lower nodes of pseudobulb, two rows, banded or rarely oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, with broad sheaths and nodes at the base around pseudobulb. There are several flowers in the raceme, and the colors are white, pure white, white green, yellow-green, yellow-yellow, yellow-brown, yellow, red, cyan and purple.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) rose

Chinese rose (scientific name: Chinese rose? Jacques. ): Known as the Queen of Flowers, also known as "Moon Red", it is an evergreen and semi-evergreen low shrub that blooms all year round, usually red and pink, and occasionally white and yellow. It can be used as an ornamental plant or as a medicinal plant, also known as a rose.

There are three natural varieties, and modern Chinese rose flowers are diverse, including single petals and double petals, as well as beautiful flowers, such as high-heart curls; Its colors are rich, not only red, pink, yellow, white and other monochrome, but also mixed color, silver edge and other varieties; Most varieties have fragrance. There are many varieties of Chinese rose, nearly ten thousand in the world, and more than 1000 in China.