When do蜡梅 (wax plum) flowers bloom?
Introduction to the article: Experiences on the flowering time of蜡梅 and a brief introduction to the appreciation of蜡梅花 period in the aspect of green plant maintenance. Next, the editor will introduce to you.
The wax plum really looks like it is made of wax, blooms in the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, and is also called蜡梅.
In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, when it is cold,蜡梅 blooms and is called, along with pine and bamboo, the "three friends of winter cold."
Bamboo and pine remain evergreen in winter, and蜡梅 blooms in the twelfth month, all enduring severe cold. Many people use the "three friends of winter cold" as a metaphor for loyal friendship.
I checked and found that蜡梅 and plum blossoms are actually different plants. Plum blossoms belong to the Rosaceae apricot genus, while蜡梅 belongs to the蜡梅 family蜡梅 genus.
I always thought that in the saying, "A sharp sword is honed through grinding, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the severe cold," the plum blossom actually refers to蜡梅, as蜡梅 only comes in one color, yellow.
Since I started paying attention to plum blossoms, I have been curious why no one plants plum blossoms but only discovered蜡梅. In fact, it is蜡mei that blooms in the cold frost and snow in the twelfth lunar month. Plum blossoms do not bloom in the cold winter months, so they cannot be found. Plum blossoms belong to the apricot genus, and from the name, it sounds similar to the blooming time of apricot flowers, which is in February and March. Wax plum blooms from November to February every year. In Nanjing, I saw蜡梅 blooming in mid-December 2020. Jining wax plum, I saw it blooming in late January of the solar calendar 2022 and around February 3, the beginning of spring, which is around the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox in 2022 was on February 12.
In Jining, Shandong in 2021, the wax plum flowers bloomed at the end of January and the beginning of February.
Around the beginning of spring in 2021, the wax plum bloomed.
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