红花木原产我国湖南长沙岳麓山,分布在长江以南地区,以湖南长沙、浏阳产的红木最为著名,其他各地均有栽培。红花木叶、花俱美,为名贵的观叶、观花植物。小枝、嫩叶及花萼均被锈色星状短柔毛。叶暗紫色,花瓣淡紫红色。蒴果褐色,近卵形。种子长卵形,黑色,光亮。花期4～5月,个别植株可夏、秋两季开花,果期9～10月。 Honghuamen origin Hunan Yuelu Mountain in Hunan Province, located in the south of the Yangtze River to Changsha, Hunan, Liuyang produced the most famous mahogany, the rest of the cultivation. Saffron leaves, flowers are the United States for the valuable concept of foliage, ornamental plants. Branchlets, young leaves and calyx are rusty stellate pubescent. Leaves dark purple, petal purple. Capsule brown, nearly ovate. Seeds long oval, black, bright. Florescence April to May, individual plants can be summer, autumn flowering, fruit from September to October.