Banyan: also known as banyan, banyan, banyan, banyan and so on. Evergreen all year round, dense and large crown, umbrella-shaped or round, dark green leaves, reddish brown fruit, often drooping with filamentous aerial roots. Because of its elegant, handsome, natural and simple appearance, it is often used for garden trees or potted plants. Banyan tree can absorb a lot of noise, has strong pollution resistance, strong branches and leaves, and can withstand frequent pruning. Even if you want to transform into various patterns or images of animals, still life and even buildings in a short time, you can easily succeed. The bonsai made of banyan trees is natural and eclectic, which absorbs the advantages of many famous artists and can achieve the perfect combination of natural beauty and artistic beauty. It can be planted in the yard and put on the desk to become a piece of porcelain.
The beard and hair of banyan trees are deeply rooted and flourish every spring and summer. Its swaying posture in the wind is very light and soft, which is one of the advantages that other trees can't find and one of the reasons why it is easy to win people's favor. Ficus is also a fig plant, and is a brother of the same family and genus as the real "fig". Of course, they are absolutely incapable of bearing fruit without flowering. It is only because their flowers and fruits hide little-known mysteries that people misunderstand that figs are actually a special inflorescence, which is called "cryptocephalic inflorescence" or "cryptocarpous inflorescence" in botany. It is made up of many small flowers blooming together inside a spherical flower. The receptacle looks like a round fruit. Although the receptacle looks airtight, if you look closely, you can find a small opening at the top, which is specially opened for pollinators and matchmakers. Matchmaker A matchmaker is usually a very delicate bee. It lives in hidden flowers and fruits. On the one hand, it feeds on the nutrients inside, and at the same time, it pollinates many small flowers as a medium. The floret is unisexual and bisexual. After pollination, small flowers with intact ovaries will form small nuts. Surprisingly, wasps or fig wasps are actually selective to their hosts. In other words, different fig plants (that is, banyan plants) usually have different kinds of bees to live in.
According to Chinese folklore, the leaves of banyan trees can ward off evil spirits. As long as seven banyan leaves are prepared and tied with red ropes, the effect of exorcism can be achieved. Because banyan trees can live for hundreds of thousands of years, banyan bonsai is also the first choice for New Year's birthdays.
The ornamental value of banyan is well known, but its nutritional value and medicinal value in the application of traditional Chinese medicine are little known. The air roots of Ficus microcarpa contain a variety of phenols, amino acids, organic acids, sugars, etc., and the leaves contain coumarin. The Ficus microcarpa (Ficus microcarpa) with leaves and aerial roots is slightly bitter, astringent and cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness and sweating, promoting diuresis and penetrating rash, expelling wind and stopping vomiting. The gas roots of Ficus microcarpa are mainly used to treat colds, high fever, tonsillitis, acute enteritis, dysentery, rheumatic bone pain and traumatic injury. Herbal tea with Hedyotis diffusa as the main raw material can prevent and treat influenza. Banyan leaves are mainly used for influenza, bronchitis and whooping cough.