What is the city flower of Yancheng?

The city flowers of Yancheng are crape myrtle and peony.

Peony flowers are colorful, jade smiling pearls are fragrant, romantic and elegant, and are known as "the king of flowers". In terms of cultivation types, it can be divided into hundreds of varieties mainly according to the color of flowers. "Peony has many varieties and colors, with yellow, green, fleshy red, crimson and silvery red as the top grades, especially yellow and green. Peony flower is big and fragrant, so it is also called "national color and fragrance".

Wei Zihua is beautiful, colorful and has a long flowering period. It is open from June to September, so it has the reputation of "Hundred Days Red" and is deeply loved by people. Distributed in East China, South China and Southwest China.

Extended data

Morphological characteristics of peony: Peony is a deciduous shrub. The stem is 2 meters high; The branches are short and thick. The leaves are usually bipinnately compound, and occasionally the leaves near the top of the branches are 3 leaflets; The terminal leaflets are broadly ovoid, 7-8 cm long and 5.5-7 cm wide, 3-lobed in the middle, the lobes are undivided or 2-3-lobed, the surface is green, hairless, the back is light green, sometimes with white powder, sparsely pubescent or nearly hairless along the veins, and the petiole is 1.2-3 cm long.

Lateral leaflets narrowly ovate or oblong-ovate, 4.5-6.5 cm long and 2.5-4 cm wide, ranging from 2-lobed to 3-lobed or undivided, subsessile; The petiole is 5- 1 1 cm long, and the leaf axis is hairless.

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