At the beginning of life, plants stand in it, spring and autumn, summer and winter, plants are speechless, but they are always in harmony with people, mourning and joy. Thousand years of inheritance, plants have been endowed with rich spiritual meaning and cultural connotations, every flower, every grass, is the sustenance of the soul and the transmission of ideas, with you to keep the years, waiting for the flow of years.
Floral Language Series - Lover's Rose
Floral language
Photo by Li Xibeiyang
The rose symbolizes love, faith, beauty, passion, wisdom, devotion and eternity. At the beginning of the 19th century, European aristocrats pioneered the use of a silver rose to represent love, and the person who delivered the gift was called the "Rose Knight". To this day, people around the world continue to send each other roses on Valentine's Day to express their love.
Introduction to plants
Rose (Rosa ssp. It is a common name for the multi-planted flowers of the rose genus Rosaceae, which originated in northern China 5,000 years ago, and is an important cultural symbol integrating poetry, painting, sculpture and other artistic creations, and is respected by the whole world.
Roses are small shrubs with thick stems, weak and soft branches and dense spines; odd pinnate compound leaves, serrated leaves, leaves oval or inverted ovate, leaf veins sunken with folds, dense fluff, leaf stickers born on the petiole; flowers are solitary, leaf axils or several clusters, heavy petal flowers are unfolded, tile-like arrangement; flower posts are at the top of the flower to lateral, the flowers are rich in color, fragrant, and the flowering period is from May to June, once a year, and the fruit period is from August to September.
Do you receive roses or moons on Valentine's Day?
The moon season and the rose belong to the rose genus of the rosaceae family, because of its four seasons of blooming, the moon safflower is good, named the moon season, has the reputation of "queen of flowers". The two are similar in morphology, the same root and the same genus, and are easy to confuse.
1— Look at the flowers
Roses are small, heavy-petaled, and more open in one plane; the moon flowers are larger, with single petals and heavy petals, and the petals are not in a plane.
Comparison of rose (top) and moon (bottom) flowers
2— Look at the blades
Rose leaves are sunken and wrinkled, the leaves are small and hairy, compound leaves have 7 to 9 leaflets; the moon leaf is flattened and shiny, the leaf surface is glabrous, the leaves are large, and the compound leaves are 3 to 5 leaflets.
Rose (top) versus moon (bottom) leaf comparison
3—Look at the stem spines
Rose stem spines are dense, small and pointed; the stem spines of the moon season are sparsely distributed, the spines are large, 3 to 4 per section, glabrous, flat.
Rose (top) versus moon (bottom) stem spines
Tips
Odd pinnate compound leaves: Pinnate compound leaves have a leaflet at the top of the total leaf axis, and the number of leaflets is singular.
Solitary flowers: A single inflorescence with only one flower is called solitary.
Heavy petal flowers: the number of petals or flower wheels (closed petals) increases, with two or more petals, such as chrysanthemums.
(Source: China Wildlife Conservation Association Public Account Editor Wang Qiang)