How to draw a plum blossom

How to draw the plum blossom sketch is as follows:

First in the drawing of a few plum blossoms, to set the overall look. Next, draw the branches of the plum blossom, very few leaves, so you can not draw.

Then draw the third branch, the posture of the branch can be free to play on the branches of the plum blossom. Finally, paint the branches with dark brown color, and the simple and beautiful plum flower sketch is finished.

Expanded information:

Plum is a small tree, sparse shrubs, 4-10 meters high; bark grayish or greenish, smooth; branchlets green, smooth and hairless. Leaf blade ovate or elliptic, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex caudate-acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, leaf margins often small sharply serrate, gray-green, pubescent on both surfaces when young, gradually glabrescent as it grows, or pubescent only in the axils of the lower veins.

The petiole is 1-2 centimeters long, hairy when young, glabrescent when old, and often glandular. Plum is one of the ten most famous flowers in China, together with orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums, it is listed as the Four Gentlemen, and with pine and bamboo, it is also called the "Three Friends of the Year". In traditional Chinese culture, the plum blossom, with its noble, strong and modest character, gives people the incentive to aspire and strive for success. In the cold, the plum first of a hundred flowers, only the world and spring.

Plum native to southern China, has been more than three thousand years of cultivation history, whether for ornamental or fruit trees have many varieties. Many types are not only cultivated in the open ground for ornamental purposes, but can also be planted as potted flowers, making plum stakes. The flowers can be used to extract flavorings, and the flowers, leaves, roots and seed kernels can be used as medicine. The fruit can be eaten, salted or dried, or smoked into umeboshi for medicine, cough, diarrhea, fluid, thirst. Plum is also resistant to root nematode damage, can be used as a rootstock for drupe fruit trees.