The dove flower is also known as the pigeon flower, do you know the reason?

Because the flowers it produces are white, resembling a white dove with wings spreading, it is called the pigeon flower.

I know. Because its flowers are white and look like a pigeon taking off from a distance, it is also called a pigeon flower.

Because of its petal type, which is somewhat similar to that of a pigeon, and because it is also white, people have given it a new name.

In 1869, when David investigated in Muping, Sichuan, he found that when this plant bloomed, it was white and huge, like a pigeon flying all over the tree, so David called it "Chinese pigeon tree".

<> dove tree, also known as pigeon tree, is a relict plant left in the Tertiary of the Cenozoic Era more than 10 million years ago, which can be called the "living fossil" of the plant world, and is a national first-class key protected wild plant.

It is a deciduous tree that has extremely strict habitat requirements and prefers a cool and humid environment. The tree can generally grow to 20 to 30 meters, the diameter of the trunk can exceed 1 meter, the tree is upright, the body is straight, the bark is gray-brown, and the leaves are dense.

It blooms in April and May every year, and the apical head-like inflorescence is purple-red, like a pigeon's head. At the base of each inflorescence, there is a pair of large white bracts, arranged on the left and right of the inflorescence, resembling a pair of wings of a pigeon. When in full bloom, the white flowers are perched on the green treetops like white doves.

The breeze blows, and the "white doves" seem to be ready to fly, which is so beautiful that it is unique and particularly eye-catching. Therefore, it has the reputation of "pigeon flower", and Western botanists call it "China's pigeon tree".

Around April 8, on the campus of Central South University of Forestry and Technology in Changsha, Hunan Province, a tall dove tree quietly bloomed 21 white "pigeon flowers", much to the excitement of local plant managers and experts. Because in 2005, the Hunan Provincial Forest Botanical Garden and other units have successively introduced hundreds of dove trees from Bada Gong Mountain, Hubian Mountain and other places, but due to the high temperature and heat in Changsha in summer, most of them have not survived, or survived and could not grow into big trees, let alone bloom. This is the only flowering dove tree in the past 16 years, and it is also the first time that the dove tree has bloomed in Changsha.

After hearing the good news, the citizens came to the tree one after another to raise their mobile phones to take pictures, and kept praising the ...... "so beautiful" and "really like a pigeon".

In Changsha can see the dove tree blooming, it is really the luck of Changsha citizens, I hope that the citizens and friends who come to watch must not climb the branches to pick flowers, protect the growth environment of the dove tree, and can bloom beautiful pigeon flowers every year in the future.

It should be said that it is particularly beautiful, and it can make people feel the wonder and beauty of nature, and it can make people fascinated by it.

It is very beautiful, this plant is very rare to see in bloom, and when it blooms, it is very beautiful, and the scene is very amazing.

The flowers are very attractive, the leaves are particularly large, and the shape of the flowers is like the wings of a pigeon, which is particularly beautiful, and the petals are white, which looks very pure and elegant.

It is particularly beautiful because the colors of these flowers are relatively bright, and they also show the breath of life in spring, giving people a visual beauty.

The flowers are all white, and they are shaped like the wings of a butterfly, which is very beautiful.

It is particularly beautiful, this flower blooms when it blooms, and it looks like a pigeon's wings, white.

In the past few days, under the baptism of drizzle, on the campus of Central South University of Forestry and Technology in Changsha, 21 white "pigeon flowers" have quietly grown from an introduced dove tree. This flowering dove tree was introduced in 2005, blooming in Changsha for the first time in 16 years.

Li Jiaxiang, an associate professor at the College of Forestry of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, was the first person to discover the flowering of the dove tree. On April 2, he took his students on a tour of the school to learn about the trees and stumbled upon these "pigeon flowers". What a surprise!

Changsha witnessed the flowering of the dove tree, which is even more surprising than the flowering of the iron tree. Li Jiaxiang introduced that the dove tree is a relict plant left over from the Tertiary of the Cenozoic Era more than 10 million years ago, which is a "living fossil" of the plant and has been listed as a national first-class key protected plant.

It is not an exotic, it is a unique tree species in our country!

It is a unique monogenus plant in China, a national first-class protected plant, and is known as "China's pigeon tree".

The flowering period is April, and the fruiting period is October. In China, it is widely distributed. Wangjia Town, the "hometown of the dove tree", has a large number of dove trees in the country.

Others are distributed in the southeast of Shaanxi, the west to the southwest of Hubei, the northwest of Hunan, the northeast to the northwest of Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places. It is often mixed in broad-leaved forests at an altitude of 1250-2200 meters, with occasional small patches of pure forests.

At the altitude of 700 meters above sea level in Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi County, thousands of acres of pure dove forest have also been discovered, which is the most concentrated place of dove tung found.