"Five trees and six flowers" are mostly tropical plants. "Five trees" refer to bodhi trees, banyan trees, palm leaves, betel nuts and sugar palms; "Liuhua" refers to lotus, asparagus, turmeric, frangipani, osmanthus and trollius.
Next, I will introduce these plants to you!
Tianzhu bodhi tree
The original Sanskrit name of Bodhi Tree is "Biboro Tree", which was named after Sakyamuni's enlightenment under Bodhi Tree. "Bodhi" means "enlightenment". To this day, the Hindu Shatuo people often think under the bodhi tree. Bodhi trees are widely planted in jungle temples in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, and India has designated them as national trees.
Gao Rong
Ficus altissima, also known as Ficus altissima, is a big tree of Moraceae, which has strong aerial roots and strong vitality. It will not only strangle host plants, but also easily form a single tree into a forest.
Li Feng, a long historical poem of the Dai people in Xishuangbanna, says "possessed with gods". In the flower season, many kinds of flowers often bloom on the same tree, thus forming colorful flowers.
Patra
Palm trees have straight and round trunks, no branches, a crown like a giant umbrella, and leaves scattered like palms, giving people a solemn and energetic feeling. It is an excellent tree species for greening environment in tropical areas and can be viewed. The famous Buddhist Bayeux Sutra is made of palm leaves.
Dai people in Xishuangbanna regard laurel leaf as a symbol of their own cultural development and are often proud of it. They even deified the laurel tree, believing that only a sincere Buddha could plant it alive.
areca
The appearance of betel nut tree is similar to that of coconut tree. Gao Qian is tall and straight, with branches and leaves facing the wind, delicate and lovely. The fruit of betel nut is edible, and people in some places in the south have the habit of chewing betel nut. The more you chew, the more fragrant it is. Areca catechu is also a kind of medicinal material, which has the functions of stopping diarrhea, treating dysentery, killing insects and removing accumulation. , also known as "Xipidan".
Sugar brown
Sugar brown is also called sugar coconut. People like to carve inflorescence with a knife, and then the inflorescence juice will flow into the bucket along the knife. Its juice is very sweet, like sugar, and one inflorescence can produce 4 small barrels of sweet juice.
Sugar-brown pinnate leaves are oily green all year round, huge and dense, just like a natural crown, blocking the hot tropical sunshine, and like a big green umbrella, giving people a shade and can be planted in the yard.
lotus
Lotus is one of the top ten famous flowers in China and the national flower of India. Lotus is a symbol of the holiness of Buddhism. Since Zhou Dunyi wrote the famous sentence "Out of the mud, don't get stained, make a clear wave but not a demon", lotus has become a "gentleman flower".
Wen Lan Shu
The name Manshuria may mislead people into thinking that this species is an orchid, but in fact, this species is a stout perennial herb of Amaryllidaceae, which blooms from June to August and emits fragrance in the evening.
Manjusri orchids and leaves are beautiful and have high ornamental value. It can be used as an ornament of garden attractions, campuses, office green spaces and lawns of residential quarters, and can also be used as garden decorative flowers and hedges around houses.
Yellow ginger flower
The flowers of Dioscorea zingiberensis originated in Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and India, and were born in the dense forests of valleys. The flowers of Dioscorea zingiberensis are dark yellow, bright and fragrant. The flowering period of Dioscorea zingiberensis is from August to September. It has a faint fragrance and is very charming. The flower height of mature Dioscorea zingiberensis is about 65438 0.8 meters.
frangipani
Plumeria blossoms in summer, fragrant and elegant. Its tree shape is beautiful and grotesque. The stem of the whole plant contains milk. Plumeria is cultivated in greenhouse, and leaves will fall in winter, which is a manifestation of its poor cold tolerance. The bare trunk bends naturally like a bonsai after falling leaves, and it also has strong ornamental value.
osmanthus flowers
Osmanthus fragrans is a deciduous shrub of Magnoliaceae. In summer, its flowering period is full of flowers, which can be smelled thirty or forty meters away from the tree. Some people even buy some freshly picked orchids and put them at home to make the home full of fragrance. If the temperature is right in winter, the flowers will continue to bloom, but the fragrance is not as strong as that in summer.
Trollius dichongensis
Originated in Yunnan, China, it is a unique flower in China. The leaf axils of the pseudostems are real florets, with delicate fragrance and yellow-green, adding a delicate beauty. The flowering period lasts for half a year.
Diyong Jinlian is designated as one of the "five trees and six flowers" by Buddhist temples, and it is also the embodiment of kindness and the symbol of punishing evil in Dai literature. If properly maintained in the south, you can enjoy flowers almost all year round, which is suitable for planting flower beds and is also a good ornamental basin.
Dai culture is extremely rich, and there are more interesting cold knowledge waiting for you to understand. Take time to come to Banna and feel the charm of Dai culture and tropical rain forest! I. Consultation and cooperation: