南方有木棉,春来花压枝。又名红棉、英雄树,属木棉科,为落叶大乔木。木棉外观多变化:春天时,一树鲜红;夏天绿叶成荫,秋天枝叶萧瑟,冬天秃枝少叶,四季展现不同的景象。木棉先开花后长叶,树形具阳刚之美。广州早在1930年代就曾定木棉花为市花,1982年再次选定它为市花。因为木棉花红,所以也称之为红棉。广州人以鲜艳似火的大红花,比喻英雄奋发向上的精神,因此木棉树又被 Southern kapok, spring flowers pressure sticks. Also known as red cotton, the hero tree, is a kapok Branch, deciduous trees. Change in the appearance of kapok: In spring, a tree bright red; summer green leaves, bleak autumn foliage, bald branches in winter less leaves, showing different seasons. Kapok flowering leaves after the first tree with masculine beauty. As early as in the 1930s, Guangzhou Municipality set cotton as the city flower, and once again selected it as the city flower in 1982. Because kapok red, it is also known as cotton. Guangzhou bright red flowers like fire, metaphor heroic spirit of making progress, so the kapok tree has been