Here is my submission to @aaronli 's A city a story weekly contest
這裡是我提交給@aaronli的一個城市的故事每週比賽
Photo taken with iphone 5SE in Hong Kong
照片是用iphone 5SE 在香港拍的
When it comes to Chinese New Year one of the most common flower for the festival is the Narcissus tazetta, also known as Paperwhite or Chinese sacred lily. Usually we purchase them when they are still in a bulb, and allow them to grow by exposing them into fresh water. We usually do carving on the bulb to induce mechanical damages to the plant so the wounded regions grow slower than unharmed regions, thereby giving interesting shapes of out coming plant.
春節期間，最常見的花卉之一當然是水仙。通常我們會在它們仍然在花頭(主球)時購買它們，並通過將它們暴露在淡水中使它們生長。我們通常在花頭上雕刻以誘發植物的機械損傷，因此受傷區域比未受傷害的區域增長得慢，從而給生出的植物的有趣形狀。
Yet this photo is not about the shape of the plant, but the flowers of the plant. I hope you guys realize that this is a double pedal layer plant, which is a result of the selective breeding. Normally the nick name for this species of Paperwhite is golden core silver pedal (which is really "fortune" names for the new year) and now we have more golden core and double silver pedal!! This is a new rising strains occupying 1% of the total paperwhite market. This is the art of Chinese culture crossing over science!!
然而這張照片不是關於植物的形狀，而是植物的花朵。我希望你們看到，這是一個雙花托植物，這是選擇性育種的結果。通常這種水仙種類的暱稱是金盞銀台（這真的是新年的“財富”名稱），現在我們有更多的金色的盞和雙重銀色的台！這是一個新興的菌株，佔水仙市場總量的1％。這是中國文化跨越科學的藝術！
Source:
http://yeungsir.com/questions/questions.htm
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鳞茎
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/水仙属
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