Flower Touring Guide – Enjoy the Spring on TJU Campus

Crabapple

Crabapple is the common name for several plants of the genus Malus and the genus Chaenomeles, in the rose family (Rosaceae). Its blooms from April to June, with diverse species and various colors.

Touring Areas:

Crabapple Road (Peiyang Park Campus)

Mingde Road, Jingye Road, Teaching Building NO.26, Crabapple Grove around the North Entrance, Crabapple Yard in the gym (Weijin Road Campus)

Midget Crabapple

Midget Crabapple is suitable for growing in north China where the climate is dry, and it is a popular plant for landscaping projects.

Touring Areas:

Crabapple Road, East Gate, the south side of Teaching Building NO.47 (Peiyang Park Campus), Mingde Road (Weijin Road Campus)

Filamental Flowering Crabapple

Filamental Flowering Crabapple is one of the four varieties of crabapple flowers. It holds great popularity for bright colors and great beauty, and this kind of flower is ideal for ground or potted planting.

Touring Areas:

Crabapple Road (Peiyang Park Campus)

Chaenomeles Speciosa

Chaenomeles Speciosa is also known as iron-legged crabapple, because its branches are dark and curved like iron wire. The flower language is ordinary and passionate.

Touring Areas:

Crabapple Road (Peiyang Park Campus)

North Library (Weijin Road Campus)

Flowering Plum

Flowering Plum (Amygdalus triloba), also known as small peach blossom, is named after its leaves like elm leaves and flowers resembling plum blossoms. It is a shrub and sparse small tree, up to 2-3 m high; branches spreading, with numerous short branchlets.

Touring Areas:

In front of the 1895 Administration Building, the west side of the Library (Peiyang Park Campus)

In front of the Teaching Building NO.9, the greenbelt of the gym, Teaching Building NO.11, university hospital and Qingnian Lake (Weijin Road Campus)

Plum tree

Plum tree, another name is cherry plum. It is a common fruit tree, deciduous small tree, up to 8 m in height. In the Dafeng red-leaved plum base of Jiangsu province, the color of plum trees is usually redder, because of the different climate.

Touring Areas:

Orchard, the north side of Datong Activity Centre (Peiyang Park Campus)

Prunus Mume Meiren

Prunus Mume Meiren (Prunus × blireana cv. Meiren) is a small deciduous tree or shrub, introduced from France. It is called Meiren in Chinese, which means "beauty". The plant is a cross between the Japanese apricot and the red-leaved plum.

Touring Areas:

In front of the 1895 Administration Building, Crabapple Road (Peiyang Park Campus)

Lilac

Lilac: Evergreen trees, up to 10m tall, leaves opposite, ovate-oblong or long-obovate, apex acuminate, base tapering down to the stalk.

Touring Areas:

South side of the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology (Peiyang Park Campus)

Peiyang Square, the east side of Science Library, the west green belt of Teaching Building NO.19 (Weijin Road Campus)

Yulan

Yulan (Yulania denudata (Desrousseaux) D. L. Fu) is a plant in the Magnoliaceae family.

Touring Areas:

Wang Shaolian Bridge, south of the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology (Peiyang Park Campus)

North-west of the Qingnian Lake (Weijin Road Campus)

Purple-leaved Plum

Purple-leaved Plum, also known as red-leaved plum, is a small deciduous tree of the genus Plum in the rose family (Rosaceae), up to 8 meters tall. It is native to southwest Asia and widely cultivated in north and south China.

Touring Areas:

The south side of Datong Activity Centre, around dormitories (Peiyang Park Campus)

In the east green belt of Qingnian Lake (Weijin Road Campus)

Chinese Redbud

Chinese Redbud stands for a harmonious family and deep affection between family members in China.

Touring Areas:

Li Shusen Bridge, north of the Datong Activity Center (Peiyang Park Campus)

In the south green belt of the Tianjin University History Museum (Weijin Road Campus)

Forsythia

Forsythia is any of a genus of ornamental shrubs and yellow bell-shaped flowers appearing before the leaves in early spring. They produce beautiful yellow flowers with faint fragrance, and the plant can reach 3m.

Touring Areas.

Mingde North Road, Qinmin South Road (Peiyang Park Campus)

In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20 (Weijin Road Campus)

Apricot (Armeniaca vulgaris Lam)

Apricot is a deciduous tree, ground-growing, glabrous.

Touring Areas:

North side of the school motto stone (Peiyang Park Campus)

In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20, south shore of Qingnian Lake (Weijin Road Campus)

Winter Jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum Lindl) is also called Spring Welcoming Flower, Golden Belt, and is a dense, fountain-like, semi-evergreen shrub that grows up to 5 m.

Touring Areas:

South side of the School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Moslem Canteen (Peiyang Park Campus)

In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20 (Weijin Road campus)

Purple flower Violet

Purple flower Violet (Viola philippica), is also called Wild Violet, Hooded Violet, Meadow Violet, etc.

Touring Areas:

Zhang Guofan Bridge (Peiyang Park Campus)

Dandelion

Dandelion, a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family. Their seed head is a beautiful puffball and delights young and old when they blow on it to disperse the seed.

Touring Areas:

All over the campus

Chinese Hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge), also known as Chinese Hawberry, Chinese Hawthorn, Mountain Hawthorn, is a genus (Crataegus) of spring-flowering spiny shrubs or deciduous trees of the rose family with glossy and often lobed leaves, white or pink fragrant flowers, and small red fruits, reaching up to 6 meters in height.

Touring Areas:

Mao Yisheng Bridge (Peiyang Park Campus)

In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20 (Weijin Road campus)

Euonymus Japonicus (Buxus megistophylla Levl): evergreen shrub or small tree to 60-200 cm tall, 5 cm DBH; branchlets 4-angled, smooth and glabrous.

Touring Areas:

All main roads (Peiyang Park Campus)

All over the Weijin Road Campus (Weijin Road Campus)

Rape Flower (Brassica campestris), is an annual herb in the cruciferous family, and is native to Europe and Central Asia.

Touring Areas:

West side of the Ping Yuan (Peiyang Park Campus)

Peach

Peach (Amygdalus persica): Its florescence is from April to May, divided into four species: red-flowered peach, white peach, Zhaoshou peach and pink peach.

Touring Areas:

Huadi Road (Weijin Road Campus)

Liu Xianzhou Bridge (Peiyang Park Campus)

Bird Cherry (Prunus Cerasifera, Rosaceae), flowering in April-May, 7-10 cm long, with white petals. It is typically found in mountain slopes, valleys or scrub at altitudes of 880-2500 m

Touring Areas:

In the north green belt of the new gym (Weijin Road campus)

Cherry Blossom

Cherry Blossom (Rosaceae, Cerasus serrulata) blooms from March to May, with pure white, pinkish-white, dark pink to pale yellow flowers, and the flower often has fragrance. It has dark green leaves with acuminate serrate teeth on the margins

Touring Areas:

East shore of Qingnian Lake (Weijin Road Campus)

East side of the Teaching Building NO.47, northeast of Tao Yuan Restaurant (Peiyang Park Campus)

Purple-leaf Sand Cherry

The Purple-leaf Sand Cherry (Cerasus serrulata) is an ornamental flower characterized by fast growing, easy propagation, strong adaptability and easy pruning. Its most flowers are white, pale pink, dark pink or pale yellow. It has dark green leaves with acuminate serrate teeth on the margins

Touring Areas:

Tai Lei Road, In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20 (Weijin Road campus)

Pear Flower

Pear Flower (Rosaceae, Pyrus spp) blossoms from April to May, with white, snow-like flowers.

Touring Areas:

In the west green belt of the Teaching Building NO.4 (Weijin Road Campus)

Violet Orychophragmus

Violet Orychophragmus is a plant in the cruciferous family, blooming April-May, with purple flowers.

Touring Areas:

In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20 (Weijin Road campus)

East of the North Entrance (Peiyang Park Campus)

Indian Strawberry

Indian Strawberry, a perennial herb in the rose family (Rosaceae), pilose. It has short and stout rhizomes, numerous stolons, 30-100 cm long. The flowering phase is June to August, fruiting season is August to October.

Touring Areas:

In the small garden ahead of the Teaching Building NO.20 (Weijin Road campus)

By: Wu Mengqi

Editor: Qin Mian