Introduction of lilac, varieties of lilac

Mimosa, also known as inductive grass, is a perennial leguminous herb, about 30-60 cm in height, the leaves look like a feather. It also blooms, but the flowers are small, white or pale pink, and look like a ball. It is native to the tropical regions of the Americas, more like warm and humid maintenance environment, light-loving, not cold-resistant. In addition, it also has high ornamental value and medicinal value, people can predict the weather and earthquake according to the leaf closure response.

1. Family

Lilac is a flower plant of Oleaceae and Syringa, belonging to a deciduous shrub or small tree, which can be used as a garden ornamental plant.Lilac's distribution scope is very broad, has the distribution in the world each place to plant, may plant in the courtyard, the park, the lawn and so on, may also raise in the potted plant in the home.

2. Characteristics

The plant height of lilac is about 2-3 meters, and the highest can grow to about 5 meters.The color of the bark is grayish brown or gray, the branchlets are relatively thick, the shape of the leaves is oval to reniform, the texture is leathery or thick papery, the length is about 2-14 cm, and the width is about 2-15 cm.Flowering period is around April-May, panicles are erect, corollas on flowers are purple, and anthers inside are yellow.It can bear fruit, the shape of the fruit is obovate oval, relatively smooth.

3. Propagation

There are many propagation methods of lilac, in addition to the conventional sowing, cutting, plant division, you can also carry out layering, grafting, the survival rate is relatively high.

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4. Variety

There are many varieties of lilac, all of which belong to about 30 species. There are about 23 species produced in China alone. The more common ones in life are lilacs. In addition, there are white lilacs, blue lilacs, fingered citron lilac, willow lilac, small leaf lilac and so on.