Descriptive Writing - A Treasure Trove for Middle School Students' Essays

Author: Zheng Wencheng, Du Zhifen / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Dandelions bloom a golden flower, but it's not just one flower—it's many flowers that form a flower head. Below each flower, there's a small fruit hidden, tiny fruits, just like sunflowers, which also have a flower head. Each flower produces a fruit, and those fruits are little sunflower seeds. On each small fruit of the dandelion, there are dense, long pappi. These pappi, combined with the small fruits, form a fluffy round ball—it's so adorable! No one who sees it isn't amazed and captivated by it. It's constructed more intricately than a palace, and even the greatest artists would feel inferior. I am a dandelion, and my mother is the earth and soil. My stem is tender and green, happily sucking milk from Mother Earth's embrace and growing joyfully. The thin stem supports a flower, which is golden yellow, like a tiny chrysanthemum or a dainty sunflower. My leaves are green and thin—they were cut out by Uncle Wind in February. The leaves of a dandelion grow from the root, with feather-like lobes at the edges. Between a few leaves, a long flower stalk extends upward, with pale yellow small flowers at the top. At first glance, it looks like one flower, but it's actually a flower head made up of many small flowers. Below each small flower, there's a tiny fruit, and each fruit has a cluster of long, dense pappi. The small fruits cluster together, forming a fluffy round ball, truly adorable. A gust of wind blows, and the flowers tremble. The small flowers and fruits flutter away and disappear. What was once a beautiful flower is now just a flower stalk in an instant. But it doesn't truly disappear—it's carried as seeds back to the earth, where it takes root, sprouts, and then blooms more flower heads, producing more fruit balls. P8