“腰缠十万贯,骑鹤下扬州。”五月的季节,我有幸参加了在江苏扬州市举办的第二届中国扬州琼花节,并观赏到“惟扬一枝花,四海无同类”的琼花。琼花树是一种类似北方丁香树的一种簇生树木。其花大的直径约15厘米,小的直径约10厘米,根据树木大小而定。花期只在4月底5月初的10几天内潮湿天气时盛开。琼花开得很特别,花分两色,中心为紧凑在一起的众多黄色花蕊,象个黄色的菜花,外围被八朵粉白色五瓣花所簇拥。琼花的整体形状很象八位仙客聚在园形桌前聚饮。故有人又称它为“醉八仙”。据扬州市的同志讲,琼花只不定期地生长在埋葬隋炀帝的蜀岗下面的瘦西湖公园内的几处潮湿地,仅有十几株,外国或外省(市)的园艺家们想搞移植栽培,均未成功,故此花在国际和国内异常珍贵。出于好奇心的驱使,回来后我立即查找了资料, “May season, I was fortunate enough to participate in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, held the second session of China’s Yangzhou Qionghua Festival, and watch ” Soaring a flower, universal No similar “Qionghua. Qionghua is a cluster of trees similar to the northern lilac tree. Its large flower diameter of about 15 cm, small diameter of about 10 cm, depending on the size of the tree. Florescence is only blooming in damp weather within 10 days of the end of April and early May. Viburnum flower is very special, flowers in two colors, the center is compact with many yellow stamens, like a yellow cauliflower, surrounded by eight pink white five flowers surrounded. The overall shape of the Viburnum flower resembles eight cyclamen gather in front of the garden table. Therefore, some people call it ”Drunken Eight Immortals." According to the comrades in Yangzhou City, Qionghua grew irregularly in only a few dozen wetlands in the Slender West Lake Park below the site where Emperor Sui Dang buried Shuang Gang, and gardeners in foreign or other provinces (municipalities) Want to engage in transplanting cultivation, have not succeeded, so spend in the international and domestic unusually precious. Driven by curiosity, I came back immediately after looking for information,