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How many stamens are there in plum blossom?

There are many stamens and only one pistil.

Plum blossoms are deciduous young trees with open crowns. The new shoots are smooth, usually green or reddish brown. Leaves alternate, oval, with long tapering tips, and the first leaves bloom. Flowers are solitary in the axils of annual branches, and there are also two clusters. White, red, pink and other colors change a lot, which are fragrant, single to double, sepals are obvious, and often do not fold after flowering. There are many stamens, long filaments, one or more pistils, nearly spherical drupes and longitudinal grooves.

Plum is native to southern China and has been cultivated for more than 3000 years. There are many varieties of plum, whether it is ornamental or fruit trees. Many types are not only cultivated in the open field for viewing, but also planted as potted flowers to make plum piles. Flowers can be refined, and flowers, leaves, roots and seeds can be used as medicine. The fruit can be eaten, salted or dried in the sun, or smoked into dark plum for medicine, which has the effects of relieving cough, stopping diarrhea, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Plum blossom can resist the harm of root-knot nematodes and can be used as the rootstock of drupe fruit trees. Plum blossom is the first of the top ten famous flowers in China. With orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums, they are listed as four gentlemen, and with pine and bamboo, they are also called "three friends of the old cold". In the traditional culture of China, Mei gives people an incentive to work hard with her noble, strong and modest personality. In the cold, before the flowers bloom, the world is lonely, and spring has come.