How to distinguish peach blossom, pear blossom, apricot blossom, plum blossom and apricot blossom?

The earliest time to spend a year is wintersweet, before the Spring Festival and after wintersweet. Next are the main flowers and trees in spring, such as plum, cherry, apricot, plum, peach and pear in Rosaceae, followed by peach, elm plum and begonia.

It is sometimes difficult to correctly identify these six kinds of Rosaceae flowers only from the patterns. Whether it is "peach blossom blossoming", "apricot blossom blossoming" or jade butterfly plum, whether it is green sepal plum or big white peach, whether it is golden plum blossom or five-color peach blossom, whether it is cherry blossom or pear blossom, it has brought a lot of confusion to many photographers. Only by comprehensively observing the similarities and differences of their morphological characteristics can they be correctly distinguished, which is the purpose of this paper.

Without flower stalks, flowers grow directly against branches, and the size of flowers is similar, as are stamens. Main differences:

1, bark

The trunk of plum blossom is brownish purple, with many longitudinal stripes, green branchlets and thorns on the branches. Peach skin is dark reddish brown, smooth and with small horizontal lines. The trunk of apricot is black and rough, and the branchlets are brown or reddish brown.

2. Flowering period

Chimonanthus praecox blooms in early winter (before the Spring Festival), plum blossom in late winter (after the Spring Festival,1~ February), apricot blossom and peach blossom in early spring from March to May.

3. Flowers and leaves

Plums have no leaves when they bloom. They are called dried plums and thin plums. If they have leaves, they must not be plum blossoms. Apricots have no leaves when they bloom, but they germinate when they fail. Peach blossoms begin to grow leaves when they are in bud, and they are arranged like firecrackers. When they are open, there are buds or young leaves on the branches.

4. Sepals

Sepals are receptacle of flower roots. The sepals of plum blossom are five scales of hard calyx, the sepals of peach blossom are soft and a little hairy, while the sepals of apricot blossom are bright crimson and narrow cylindrical, which are folded back like another layer of small petals, like a trumpet.

5. Patterns

Plum blossoms are mostly pure and bright in color, with round petals, strong "wax" texture and rich fragrance.

Plum blossom is a plum blossom variety for ornamental purposes, mostly white, pink, red, purple and light green. The main varieties are double petals, but some single petals are also excellent. At present, there are more than 300 kinds of plum blossoms, and the main varieties suitable for viewing are green calyx and pink plum.

, bone red, sparkling water, longyou, apricot and plum, etc. Green calyx: a rare and precious variety of plum blossom, with green sepals and white petals, which are very fragrant; Peach and plum; The flowers are pink, double or semi-double, with light fragrance, which is a product of China; Bone red: the flowers are crimson, double petals, extremely fragrant, and also belong to treasures; According to water: flowers are double petals with drooping branches, and flowers are white, red or pink, which are fragrant and precious; Longyou: double flower with twisted branches, white, pink or crimson in color, delicate and elegant, and exotic; Apricot and plum: large white flower, single petal.

Peach blossom has five petals, pink and crimson head, rectangular petals, unlike apricot flowers, which are thin and soft, with paper texture and sweet fragrance.

Ornamental peach varieties include crimson, crimson, pure white and red and white mixed colors (sprinkled with gold), as well as double petals and double petals. The more important varieties are nectarine, flat peach, longevity peach and peach. Among them, nectarine and flat peach are cultivated as fruit trees, and longevity peach and peach are mainly ornamental.

Apricot flowers have five petals, which are solitary, open in clusters and crowded together. The first leaves are open, the stamens are relatively long, and the petals are white or slightly red, which is characterized by discoloration. When the buds are ready to release, they are bright red. With the extension of petals, the color gradually turns from thick to light, and then turns white when it falls, so a tree looks white and red. Apricot flowers bloom from March to May, with late flowering and fat branches. Plum blossoms bloom earlier and the branches are thinner and harder. "In the second spring, the heating gradually came and the plum blossoms withered."