Bian Hua is a plant of Amaryllidaceae, belonging to Lycoris of Amaryllidaceae of Liliales.It originated in the Yangtze River Basin in China, and is now distributed in Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and other countries.It is a perennial herb with slender green leaves, about 30 cm in length and 0.5 cm in width.Its petals are also long and thin, and not very closely arranged.Many petals roll inward at the same time, forming its strange and beautiful flower shape.
Its remarkable feature is that the mosaic leaves are different.When it began to flower, its leaves still did not grow.And when its leaves grow out, its flowers have withered.Because it has this characteristic, so people gave it "life and death, never meet" such a desolate flower language.
Its Chinese name is "Red Flower Lycoris".In addition to the formal scientific name, it has many other names.Among them, the more common ones are "black garlic", "nonsense grass", "golden lantern flower", "dragon claw flower" and "red arrow" and so on.It also has some unique nicknames in Japan, such as "ghost flower", "hell flower", "dead man flower" and "flower of the dead" and so on.