The kapoksays: cherish the people around you, cherish your eyes of happiness, the hero flower.Kapok looks much change, in the spring, a tree orange;The shadow of summer leaves into;Autumn foliage bleak;Winter cold bald branches of the tree, the four seasons show different amorous feelings, is impressive.Corolla five petals, orange, yellow, or orange red.Flowers, panzhihua is also called hero.

Kapok name origin

Originated in south yue emperor ling, he with full trees safflower called the sunshine light;The bei comes from the Sanskrit Karpassa of transliteration;Kapok believe originated in nanyang dialect Ceiba, the name means kapok Ceiba Pentandra for similar shape so confused;China is refers to the name of kapok hainan island (Joan) growth of trees and thus its name.Kapok tree flowers red, like a hero's blood dyed the, therefore, also known as the hero tree.

The legend of kapok

Legend of wuzhishan had a li old hero called kapok, often lead people beat the alien invasion.Once because of a traitor whistleblowing, old hero was arrested, the enemy will he bound and tortured on the kapok tree, old hero and endured, finally killed by cruel.Later after the old hero into kapok tree, so the kapok tree is called "site", in memory of the national hero.Kapok tree tall tree trunk full of papilloma, no other people, such as climbing, branches and wheel life, like a declaration of sovereignty to the sky, blossom without the leaves, cost of light after regeneration leaves, true have boldness of vision, so, also have the laudatory title of "hero tree".

But the earliest called kapok hero is qing Chen Gongyin, he described in his songs pretty flower kapok "thick must good bedding face is a hero, strong gas do high crown and".Since then the kapok tree is called the hero tree.And kapok name comes from a pictographic - kapok flower fade after bearing cotton, cotton tie knot on a tree.The cotton on the tree, so called kapok.Hero: kapok, austral peculiar wood tree tall and straight, wooden tenacity;When flowers red and warm without a bit of greenery foils, flowering after heart.i fall soil not allow anything to fall around, flower into the food but can qingrejiedu WenChun concern to the person.

City flower kapok is mr.zhang, mr.zhang is also the only Chinese city to flower as a city name.Kapok is larger, the color orange, very beautiful, to appreciate.Sea south of ancient guangzhou kapok tree planting, of which more than 10 strains of the most ancient temple gate.Every year lunar calendar in February, kapok flower in full bloom, many thousands of people every day to the viewer, the scene is lively, with QuDaJun to the south China sea temple ancient cotton song of praise.The temple of the south China sea still have two ancient kapok tree, older, still upright.