Description
Chimonanthus (Latin scientific name: Chimonanthus praecox (Linn.) Link ("Flora of China"), English name: Winter Sweet, Chinese alias: golden plum, winter sweet, wax flower, yellow plum blossom.
Chimonanthus, Chimonanthus, is a deciduous shrub, often in clusters. The leaves are opposite, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the flowers are born in the leaf axils of the second-year-old branches, first flowers and then leaves, fragrant, 2~4 cm in diameter; tepals round, oblong, obovate, Oval or spoon-shaped, glabrous, filaments longer or equal length than anthers, anthers curved inward, glabrous, styles are 3 times as long as the ovary, and the base is hairy. The fruit tray is nearly lignified, the mouth is contracted, and has a diamond-lanceolate coat of hair. The first leaves bloom at the end of winter,
Cultivated varieties include Chimonanthus Chinensis; Diesel Heart Chimonanthus; Dog's Tooth Chimonanthus (Calymanthus chinensis). Wintersweet is native to central my country and is widely cultivated throughout the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin. It loves the sun, but it is also slightly shade-tolerant, more cold-resistant and drought-tolerant. The soil quality is not strict, but light loam with good drainage is suitable
