What fruit trees are planted in Hefei Four Seasons Flower Sea Phase IV?

After a rain, I visited the Four Seasons Flower Sea Park in Shushan District of Hefei, and found that many tall green leaves were covered with white flowers, and the petals were a little reddish and yellow. At first, I thought it was tung oil flower. On closer inspection, it didn't look like it. Flowers have different shapes. I am familiar with tung oil. When I was a child, it was on my doorstep, with white and red stripes. The fruit was like a cotton peach, and the seeds inside could be pressed with tung oil.

Tung oil flower

This flower is closer to paulownia in shape, but there are some differences in color. Paulownia flowers are purple. When paulownia flowers bloom, there are few leaves on the trees, and almost all the trees are full of flowers.

Paulownia flower

Fortunately, it is very convenient to search for pictures now, and I soon found out that this plant is called Catalpa bungeana, which has a long history. Like Ginkgo biloba, it is one of the oldest living fossil tree species in China.

The catalpa bungeana has blossomed.

Catalpa bungeana is a hardwood and a precious wood for making furniture. Known as the "king of wood" since ancient times. Of course, the catalpa bungeana planted in the park today is not for wood, but because its trunk is tall and straight, its branches are luxuriant, its flowers are beautiful and its fragrance is elegant. It is a very good green landscape tree.

Catalpa bungeana is so popular that it is written in many ancient poems. There are three poems in Sixteen Southern Expeditions written by Han Yu with Catalpa bungeana, one of which is: When you were a few years old, you became a big tree, and once you were entangled in vines. Who has something to do with green? Look at the flowers and plants. This is a picture of a catalpa bungeana tree entangled with vines, with layers of flowers on its branches.

Catalpa bungeana flowers fall all over the ground.

Su Shi wrote in "Poems in Dreams": Catalpa trees are high in flowers and the warm wind is late in life. You can see it in England, another year of melancholy spring. Not only wrote the beauty of catalpa bungeana flowers, but also the loss of spring.

The catalpa bungeana has blossomed.

It is the end of spring, and cherishing spring does not hurt spring. Every season has its own beauty. And make use of the blooming season of catalpa bungeana to get close to nature and keep the beauty of spring!