Talk about the Love Tree (Neem Tree)

Look, this flower is beautiful, isn’t it? The flowers are small, with white petals and purple petals. The stamens are bright purple, and the bottom of the stamen is like a barrel. The head of the stamen is like a trumpet, surrounded by purple, but the center of the stamen is yellow and covered with pollen. Look at the flower bones again. The color is pink and purple, and they look tender and soft... As the flower blooms, the color of the petals will gradually turn white. Isn't it interesting?

Looking closely, the layers of flower spikes are composed of delicate little flowers. They are elegant, beautiful and quiet... Come closer and smell it, the faint fragrance is refreshing, and when the wind blows, that The fragrance is sent far, far away... Standing under the tree, it feels like you are in a sea of ??fragrance.

Legend has it that when Zhuge Liang was herding horses in Longzhong when he was a child, he would tie his horses to the neem tree every day, or read under the tree, or squat under the tree to set up a square formation (army formation) with neem seeds. It is said that Zhuge Liang's "Eight Formations" were practiced under the neem tree.

Do you know? There is a Tieshan Temple National Forest Park in Huaian, Jiangyin. There used to be a neem tree as thick as a bowl, surrounded by an ivy. No one knows how many years they have been intertwined with each other. Later, a tourist came here and saw the ivy tightly wrapped around the neem tree. He felt that the ivy was too overbearing, so he cut it off from the bottom with a knife. This tourist originally wanted to feel sorry for the neem tree, but he did not expect that after the ivy was cut down, the neem tree suddenly died, as if he had died for the ivy. The dead neem tree is still in place, and the ivy on the trunk has dried up, but they still "hug" together tightly. "Later, "neem tree" came to be known as "love tree".

Regarding neem trees, it is also recorded in "Journey to the West". When Tang Monk and his disciples crossed the Tongtian River, they agreed to carry their gods on their backs. The tortoise asked Tathagata how long it could live. However, when Tang Monk came back from studying the scriptures, he forgot about it. The turtle was so angry that he threw the four people into the river. The scriptures were all wet. Tang Monk and his disciples went ashore to dry the books. Hang the scriptures on a tree. This tree is a neem tree!

The neem tree is full of treasures! The bark and roots can be used as medicine, and the azadirachtin in the leaves is also a highly effective one. As for pesticides, it is said that it can control more than 100 kinds of insects and is an important biological raw material for the preparation of pollution-free pesticides. Therefore, the neem tree is called "green gold" and "sacred tree"

Collapse! I put a few branches in a vase and put them in my bathroom. It not only adds color, but also fills the whole bathroom with fragrance. It feels really good!