Longtu bamboo leaves are dark green, calyx is like jade, corolla is dark red and poetic. Potted plants adorn windowsills or balconies, which are beautiful and distinctive. In summer, although the dragon spit beads are not as colorful as azaleas or as enchanting as roses, they stubbornly resist the heat and spit out one red bead after another containing the fire of life. So, what is the flower language of Long Tuzhu? Let's have a look!

Dragon Figure Pearl Flower Language: Precious, Pure and Sincere.

Dragon spit beads features:

Longtu bamboo is a perennial evergreen vine. The plant height is 2 ~ 5 meters, and the stem has four edges; The leaves are opposite, oblong and 6 ~ 10 cm long. Umbellies axillary; Flowers bloom in spring and summer, and the flowers are beautiful. The calyx is white, and the upper part of the corolla is crimson. When the flowers bloom, the red corolla protrudes from the white sepals, just like a dragon spit bead, hence the name. A weak woody vine with four-sided stems. The single leaf is opposite, dark green, ovoid, oblong or ovoid, with an acute apex, a rounded base, three veins from the base, and a short handle. Cymes, terminal or axillary, scattered, forked, short calyx tube, green, white, ovoid, persistent, cylindrical corolla tube, weak, crimson 5 lobes, long stamens and styles, protruding from corolla, blooming in spring and summer. The fruit is spherical, blue, big, rectangular and black.

The origin of the name Long Tuzhu:

There is an anecdote about the origin of the name Long Tuzhu:1In the mid-8th century, British travel expert Coase? When Thomson traveled to Africa, he happened to see many dark-skinned girls with dragon spit beads on their chests, one black and one white, which aroused great interest, so he picked the seedlings and brought them back for trial planting. At that time, botanists thought he was the first discoverer, so he was named after him. By the end of19th century, Mali began to manage this kind of flowers and plants, and renamed it "Pearl Pagoda" by itself, which is better than people's name. At the beginning of the 20th century, Longtuzhu entered the Dutch international flower market, with little initial sales. Fang Fulin, an overseas Chinese worker, suggested using the flower name of Longtuzhu to attract customers, and his boss immediately adopted this suggestion. Therefore, the business is very prosperous and almost exported to all parts of the world. Since then, the name of Dragon Tuzhu has swept the world.