The name of the plant

? The names of plants are as vulgar and elegant as people's names. The "vulgar" ones are like Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Petunia and Pulsatilla, while the "elegant" ones are like Clivia, Lingxiao, He Wanglan, Datura (which is quite different from the national conditions), Lingjianlian, ... In addition, they are not vulgar but feel very connotative (which is related to most of these plants).

When I say the vulgarity of plant names, I mean those plants that people usually see or whose general characteristics can be inferred from their names. It's like a raspberry, but it's not a poisonous little fruit as we thought. It's just a red berry. It looks like a strawberry, but it is much smaller. I found it on the grass between Building 4 and Building 3 of Shanshi, but the fruit is too small to taste. Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. (Actually, I think this name is quite good. Maybe when I was in primary school, from Baicaoyuan to San Tan Yin Yue unloaded its mystery early, and then many shampoo packages were coated with Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. ); The red spike of the torch tree is like a torch, and the leaves turn red in autumn, which is spectacular from a distance. This kind of tree can be seen everywhere in the mountains around Jinan. Honeysuckle (the name may come from its growth at high altitude) is familiar to us. When I was a freshman, I saw white and yellow flowers on a vine in Laoshan Mountain, and finally I knew what gold and silver they were. Rooted in the ground are tropical plants. When it encounters adverse environmental conditions such as drought, the seedlings will grow on the leaves and can take root and reproduce after touching the ground. The bergamot thought that this kind of thing was just a fictional fairy fruit on the New Year's picture, and later he realized that there really was this kind of fruit that looked like a closed hand. There is also a beautiful legend that when Miaoshan saved his father with a short arm, he was moved by God, and more than a dozen hands grew in the place where his arm was broken (the origin of Guanyin with a thousand hands). Many palm-like plants grew in the place where his father treated the palm with arm meat, and then he named it Buddha's palm. In addition, it, like Alisma orientalis, is named after growing next to Shui Ze, which can promote defecation. Dianthus (Carnation), the most common plant in the flower market on Mother's Day; Belladonna (not crazy eggplant) can cure vasospasm; The leaves are similar in shape and pattern to tortoise shells, and the stems are called bamboo ... In short, these are some plants with vulgar names, and of course there are many other "vulgar plants", but there are too many, so I won't make it clear one by one.

Crane orchid, also known as bird of paradise, is the most vivid and energetic plant I feel. The flower is shaped like an elegant and noble swan spreading its wings and flying. The four colors of yellow, purple, blue and red on it add to her uniqueness and preciousness. Drip Guanyin, named after its flowers look like Guanyin, will spit out water drops at the tip or edge of leaves when the humidity is high, but drip Guanyin is a poisonous plant (many plants in Araceae are poisonous, such as tortoise-backed bamboo and evergreen), so it is better to keep it carefully at home; Iris is planted in the West Garden, and there are many in the Botanical Garden. But once I saw its flowery language, one of which was "desperate love", which made me curious. Because iris is as lively as a butterfly, how can it be associated with despair? Later, I found a picture and found that the blue iris in the picture really looks like a depressed person at first glance, so depressed and lost; Tulip, the national flower of the Netherlands, is also a very story-telling flower. The tall and straight stems and colorful flowers endow it with elegant and noble temperament. Oxalis, which we call "lucky grass", generally has three leaflets, and occasionally plants with mutations will grow four leaves. It is said that clover with four leaves can make people's wishes come true. There are many oxalis growing on the lawn in front of Yi Shan No.2 building, and the lawn is dotted with pink flowers. In addition, like Lingxiao (now it is the flowering period of Lingxiao, and there are several places where Lingxiao blooms in the family courtyard of Xicun), long vines climb up the wall, and red flowers are very imposing; People may first think of Yue Fei's song "Angry Hair Rushing to the Crown", which is a small freshwater floating plant (duckweed) that contains anthocyanins and turns red in autumn and winter. I think oleander is named because its leaves and flowers are similar to peach leaves and peaches, but its whole plant is very poisonous, so you should be a gentleman in front of oleander, otherwise the consequences will be very serious. ...

What I want to mention next is what I call vulgar and vulgar plants. Different from other plant names, these plant names contain verbs or adjectives that can express some characteristics of plants. They are all very orthodox words (orthodoxy does not allow people to have any association and cannot be explained by ordinary thinking), which makes people feel that a girl's name is more masculine. Let's talk about bone building. In autumn, the plants on both sides of Jingshi Road covered with little red beads are healthy. Because there are big thorns on the leaves, even birds dare not stop on them at ordinary times, so it got another name-"Birds don't leave their names"; Cassia seed, I think, may be named because it has the effect of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, which can be explained by the ancient Chinese (the meaning of Angelica dahurica also comes from ancient Chinese); Everyone should be familiar with Lycium barbarum, which has been recorded in medical books for a long time. Now Lycium barbarum has become a proper noun without other meaning (in addition, such as polygala tenuifolia, Bupleurum chinense, Tang Di, Gynostemma pentaphyllum, etc. , I think it should also belong to this category); Cornus officinalis, since the first contact with his Shandong brothers on vacation in the mountains, has never seen his true face. In ancient times, Chongyang wore a sachet containing dogwood to ward off evil spirits. With this long-standing name, Cornus officinalis, as a decent plant, must have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. In addition, Aloe (Baidu) explains the origin of its name in this way: the word "Lu" means "black" in the text, while "Hui" means gathering. The juice dripping from the incision of aloe leaves is yellowish brown, which turns black after being oxidized by air and condenses into a whole, so it is called "aloe". This explanation is somewhat extended, but it also makes sense. Forsythia, I don't know how to explain the name at all. ...

The words on this page are written according to the knowledge of botany I learned in college. When I graduated from college, I felt that my stomach was empty and I didn't learn anything, let alone the precipitation of knowledge and the sublimation of quality. So I thought about writing down what I left behind before I forgot, so as not to lose my memory, and this university would really be in vain. Hmm. How interesting