Features and Characteristics of梅花 (Plum Blossom)
Today's focus is to introduce you to the features and characteristics of plum blossoms in the field of green plants and flowers. Below, the editor will provide you with a detailed explanation.
Branch and Leaf Characteristics: The bark of the plum tree is light gray or slightly green, and the leaves are ovate or elliptical. Flower Characteristics: The diameter of plum blossoms is 2-2.5 centimeters, with a strong fragrance, blooming before the leaves. Habit Characteristics: Plum blossoms have strong adaptability and cold resistance, thrive in sunlight, and can withstand intense heat. Propagation Characteristics: Propagation methods include grafting, cutting, layering, and seeding.
What are the characteristics of plum blossoms?
1. -- Branch and Leaf Characteristics --
Plum trees are small trees, with a height of 4-10 meters. The bark is light gray or slightly green and relatively smooth. The young branches are green, the leaves are ovate or elliptical, with acuminate tips and bases that are broadly cuneate to rounded. The leaf margins often have fine teeth, and the petioles are 1-2 centimeters long with glands on top.
2. -- Flower Characteristics --
Plum blossoms grow singly or sometimes two flowers together in one bud. The diameter of the flowers is 2-2.5 centimeters, with a strong fragrance, blooming before the leaves. The pedicels are short, the sepals are often reddish-brown, some varieties are green or green-purple, the sepals are ovate or nearly round, and the petals are inversely ovate, ranging from white to pink.
3. -- Habit Characteristics --
Plum blossoms have a strong adaptability to the environment and cold resistance, prefer warm and humid climates, and can withstand intense heat. They grow well in deep soil layers, low water tables, well-drained, loose topsoil, and slightly clayey subsoil with a slightly alkaline pH. Moreover, the plants thrive in sunlight and develop poorly in shaded areas.
4. -- Propagation Characteristics --
The propagation methods of plum blossoms are diverse, mainly including grafting, cutting, layering, and seeding. For grafting, peach, mountain peach, apricot, mountain apricot, and plum seedlings are usually selected as rootstocks. In the northern regions, square bud grafting is often carried out during the time of Chushu to Bailu. In the south, abdominal or cut grafting is done from March to April.
Do you now understand the detailed introduction to the features and characteristics of plum blossoms shared above?