Recently, the rare and endangered aquatic plant "sea cauliflower" is in full bloom in the Landscape Garden of the Lushan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Three light, clear, snow-white petals gathered together, clustered with a touch of yellow stamen in the middle, like a butterfly resting and playing on the water, forming a beautiful scenery of mountains, water, and flowers.
Sea cauliflower, also known as Longzhaocai, is a submerged herb in the genus Hydrangeaceae, and it is also a rare and endangered plant unique to China.
It grows in the lake, the flowers will bloom on the water, while the plants are still in the water, when the water ripples, the flowers will also flow, so people commonly call it "water poplar flower".
Sea cauliflower has strict requirements on water quality. It likes warm and clean water. It mainly grows in lakes, ponds, ditches and paddy fields with clean water. It is distributed in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and is unique to Southwest my country. Kind.
(Hu Xiaoshan, Huashan)
Editor in charge: [Li Ji]