Smiling flower is a common woody flower shrub on warm ground. Because smiling flowers are not cold-resistant, it is necessary to pay attention to cold protection in the process of artificial planting. If the outdoor ambient temperature is low, you should pay attention to moving indoors. Smiling flowers have a delicate fragrance and are very popular with people.

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Smiling flowers are 2-3 meters high, with grayish brown bark and dense branches; Buds, branches, petioles and pedicels are densely yellow-brown tomentose. The leaves are leathery, narrowly elliptic or obovate, 4 4- 10/0cm long and1.8-4.5cm wide. The top is blunt and short, the base is wedge-shaped or wide wedge-shaped, and the upper part is shiny and hairless. There are brown creeping hairs on the lower part of midvein, and the rest are hairless. The petiole is 2-4 mm long, and the stipules reach the top of the petiole.

Chinese name: Xiao Hanhua

Latin scientific name: smiling. )Spreng。

Nicknames: Smiling, Smiling, Alpinia officinarum, White Orchid, Tanghuangxinshu, Banana Flower, Banana Shrub.

Two names: Figo with a smile

Field: the field of plants

Phylum: Angiosperm phylum

Category: Dicotyledonous plants

Purpose: Magnoliaceae.

Family: Magnoliaceae

Genus: Michelia

Type: smiling flower

Distribution: Originally from Guangdong and Fujian, it is now cultivated in the Yangtze River valley to Jiangnan and Taiwan Province Province.

Flowering: March-May

Fruit: July-August.

Soil PH value: slightly acidic soil with 5.0-5.5.

Propagation: cutting, high pressure method and grafting method