When will the Yangtze kapok bloom in 2023?

In 2023, the opening time of the Yangtze River Kapok is February 20, 2023.

The longing for spring begins with a kapok plant. In Changjiang Li Autonomous County, which is known as the hometown of kapok in China, "Wan Li kapok red" is the main color in January and February, and it is as vibrant as kapok red, which has become the main theme of local green, sustainable and high-quality development in recent years.

In 2022, the Yangtze River received a total of 6.5438+0.9324 million tourists, ranking third in the province in terms of growth rate, achieving a total tourism income of 65.438+0.59 billion yuan; During the Golden Week of the Spring Festival in 2023, the Yangtze River received 285,500 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 44.5%; The tourism revenue was114.293 million yuan, up 58.3% year-on-year.

Kapok introduction:

Kapok (scientific name: Bombax ceiba? L) It is a large deciduous tree of Kapok family, with gray bark, and the trunk of young trees usually has conical thick thorns; The branches spread flat. Palmately compound leaves, 5-7 leaflets, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, with solitary branches in the axils of flowers, usually red and sometimes orange-red, with a diameter of about10 cm; Calyx cup-shaped, 2-3 cm long, glabrous outside, densely covered with yellowish short silk hairs inside, with 3-5 calyx teeth, semicircular, fleshy petals, obovate oblong, and capsule oblong and obtuse.

Kapok is distributed in India, Sri Lanka, zhina Peninsula, Malaysia, Indonesia to the Philippines, northern Australia and China. In China, it is distributed in subtropical provinces. Kapok grows in dry-hot valleys and savannahs below 1400(- 1700) meters above sea level, and can also grow in mountain rain forests.