Many people mispronounce these plant names. Do you pronounce them correctly?

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Culture is broad and profound, and Chinese character culture is naturally no exception. Many plant names we take for granted are actually mispronounced; for some plant names containing polyphonic characters, we are confused about which sound to read; and some plant names are written in complex and rare forms. Today,

the editor will take stock of those commonly mispronounced plant names.

Pits we have fallen into

[chēng liǔ]

Tamarix chinensis

This strange tamarisk is really pretty!

[bì lì]

Ficus pumila

Do you know how to use the fruit of Ficus pumila to make jelly!

[cù jiāng cǎo]

Oxalis

This Oxalis is not as pretty as the one with red flowers!

[yè gàn]

Belamcanda chinensis

It definitely should not be called she [shè] gan [gān]~~

Rare characters

[xī xiān]

Siegesbeckia orientalis

If it were not for this plant, I probably would never know these two characters in my life. It really is not pretty.

[zèng]

Patrinia villosa

The ancients probably would have recognized the name of this plant, because

zeng

is a kind of ancient earthenware vessel for steaming rice;

[qū]

Gnaphalium affine

Some say qu is a surname, changed from the Ju clan, but actually it is

jiuqu

, now simplified as

jiuqu

. The ancients used the yellow of jiuqu to describe the flower color of chrysanthemums, and that is how today's ju came to be;

[kǔ zhī]

Physalis angulata

Personally, I feel that no matter how I look at this character, I still cannot write it from memory, and many times it gets written as "ku zhi";

[péng léi]

Rubus

The genus Rubus is already hard enough to distinguish, so why are there still such hard-to-read characters? Too hard, really too hard;

[xiè]

Allium macrostemon

You would think a hard-to-recognize plant having an easy-to-recognize alias would be nice, but this guy's alias is just the opposite, even harder to recognize -

jiao [jiào] tou

；

[jí cài]

Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata is fish mint, also known as zhe'ergen. In the Flora, its recorded name is Houttuynia cordata;

[máng]

Geraniaceae

[guàn]

Geranium

Polyphonic characters

[pò]

Celtis sinensis

[pǔ] shu, wrong! [piáo] shu, even more wrong! It should be [pò] shu, not po shu;

[lián qiáo]

Forsythia

I say meekly that many people probably read Forsythia as lian [qiào];

[pāo]

Paulownia fortunei from Lankao

Plants of the genus Paulownia have wood that is puffy and loose, so reading it [pāo] is only too correct;

[qiào]

Fagaceae

The fruits of Fagaceae plants have cupule appendages, such as the chestnut of the genus Castanea in the Fagaceae shown above, that outer layer, and it is read qiào, not ké. You might think of the idiom "golden cicada sheds its shell";

[suō]

Cyperaceae

Probably few people notice that the character suo is a polyphonic character. Besides the [shā] we are used to, it also has a [suō] pronunciation. The picture above shows Cyperus alternifolius of the genus Cyperus in the Cyperaceae family;

[zhú]

Atractylodes macrocephala

Atractylodes macrocephala is a very common Chinese medicine, and its pronunciation is also willfully not read as shù;

[bí qi]

Eleocharis dulcis

Here it reads qi again, because the edible part resembles a horse's hoof, so it is also called mati;

[qián]

Urtica

Urtica of the genus Urtica in the family Urticaceae

Urtica

is all read [qián], while

urticaria

is read [xún];

[shā]

Chinese fir

It is simply willful to the extreme

, Taxodiaceae, dawn redwood, pond cypress, bald cypress

are all read [shān], yet

Cunninghamia of the genus Cunninghamia

is read [shā];

Brain-hole memorization method

[suō luó]

Alsophila spinulosa

Hello everyone, I am not the Thoreau who wrote Walden!

[luò xīn fù ]

Astilbe

Hello everyone, I am not the Jorogumo that spins webs!

[ kǔ liàn ]

Melia azedarach

Hello everyone, please do not pine for me bitterly; my flowers are very fragrant!

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