Beauty tree (scientific name: Chorisia? Speciosa) is a species of Prunus in Kapok family. The trunk is erect, with spikes, umbrella-shaped crown, green leaves and bottle-shaped trunk of adult trees. In winter in bloom, the trees are purple and beautiful. It is an excellent ornamental tree species, and it is an advanced tree species beautified in courtyard greening.
Beauty tree is 8 ~ 15 meters high, with green trunk, unfamiliar tumor-like thorns and lateral branches extending obliquely horizontally. Deciduous in winter, flowering in summer and autumn, flowering more; The ornamental value doubled before the leaves began to grow. Leaves alternate, palmately compound, 5-7 leaflets, ovoid or obovate, with serrated leaves, length 12- 14 cm. Flowers are terminal, racemes, pale pink corollas, five lobes, purple-brown-white near the center. Filaments form stamen tubes and surround the style. Winter is flowering. Capsule oval. The seeds ripen in the following spring. ? Beautiful trees bear fruit after flowers wither. Some fruits are as big as grapefruit, hanging upside down on bare branches like shells, which are very spectacular. After the fruit ripens, the thick peel naturally falls off, and a piece of white floc stands out, dazzling white, hanging on the branches like a mature and cracked cotton ball.