Ji wind pear is also known as purple brocade wind pear, brocade pattern wind pear, starfish flower, for the wind pear family Ji wind pear genus perennial evergreen herbaceous foliage plants.
Ji Feng Pear is a small plant in the wind pear class, plant height of about 10 centimeters. Almost no stem, the outer leaf axils with the stem. Leaf blade clustered, rosette arrangement, star-shaped; leaf elliptic lanceolate, revolute, hard, undulate edge, with prickles; gray-green, on the black-green dots, the back of the leaf with silver-white scales. Flowers white, clustered in subsessile inflorescences, hidden in rosulate leaf clusters, open at all seasons. Commonly cultivated in the same genus:
Velvet-leaved small wind pear: also known as longitudinal silk small wind pear. The leaf blade is rose or olive green, with two broad longitudinal light yellow bands, dark red at the base.
The ring band Ji Feng Pear: also known as tiger stripe small pineapple. Leaves wide, lace, dark green, the leaf body has horizontal irregular silver-white stripes, like tiger skin, the back of the leaf has silver-white scales.
Tricolor Ji Feng Pear: also known as colorful long leaf small Feng Pear. It is the largest one in this kind. From the base of the plant grows a lot of small plants, in a clumped state. The leaves are soft and long, with longitudinal stripes of creamy white and green, turning reddish when dry.
Girardia is native to Brazil and is a ground or epiphytic plant in tropical forests. Its nature likes high temperature and high humidity and semi-shady environment. Growing temperature is 20-30 ℃, the overwintering temperature is 5 ℃.
Girardia is usually propagated by dividing plants and cuttings. Dividing is usually carried out in the spring combined with potting, the child plant from the base of the mother plant peeled off, respectively, on a small pot planting, put in the shade and wet place maintenance for a period of time. Cuttings are usually taken in the summer and fall when the temperature is high, take the upper part of the stem, cuttings in river sand or perlite, maintain a certain degree of humidity, 2-3 weeks after the roots can be potted.
The potted plant of Hime Bromeliad is a mixture of preserved leafy soil and river sand in equal amounts as a substrate, and epiphytes such as moss and moss, pigmented roots and other materials can also be used as a potting substrate. Planting with a small amount of bone meal or compound fertilizer as base fertilizer, and pay attention to the bottom of the basin pad good drainage layer. It rosette leaves flattened, less water storage in the leaf tube, drought tolerance is poor, the growing season should pay attention to more water spray to the foliage. If the soil is too or the air is too dry, the leaves are easy to curl and shrink. But it is afraid of stagnant water, if watering too much, the potting soil is not dry for a long time, will cause root rot. So watering should master between dry and wet, rather than in the principle of wet, to maintain a high degree of permeability. Less watering in winter, keep the potting soil slightly wet can be conducive to overwintering. It needs less fertilizer, in addition to planting some base fertilizer, growth period of 1-2 times a month, thin liquid fertilizer can be applied. Ji bromeliad growth requirements often bright light, leaf color in full sunlight more bright; such as long-term placed in the shade, leaf color and mottled easy to disappear, but strong sunlight will also make the leaf scorched, lose luster. Therefore, in addition to winter can receive full sunlight, other seasons should be given appropriate shade, master 40% 50% shade can be.
Ji Feng Li plant is short, looks small and exquisite; leaf color and pattern colorful, gorgeous and rich, is a rare pocket-sized foliage plants, ornamental value is quite high. It can be planted in small shallow pots or planted in bottles as plant material for vases, or planted in rockeries, fake trees or porous pots as epiphytes. Placed indoors in the bright light of the study, windowsill landscaping decoration, very elegant and beautiful.
Bromeliad as follows:
Bromeliad is pineapple, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Bromeliad, about 60 genera and more than 1400 species. Their homeland in the Caribbean coast and South America places. In the pineapple family, there are flowers and not beautiful but can knot pineapple varieties, people call it edible pineapple; There are flowers, leaves are peculiar, and novel but can not result in varieties, people call them ornamental pineapple or pineapple flowers.
Ornamental pineapple from the 80's since the introduction of our country, by the coastal part of the city into the welcome of many people. 1994, guangzhou annual flower market, each imported pineapple flowers priced at 150-200 yuan, than the western azalea three times higher than the flowers are quickly bought by the lovers.
Currently in our country popular ornamental pineapple, water tower flower, bromeliad, dragonfly pineapple, golden bromeliad, colorful bromeliad and so on. Their plants grassy stems clustered, stems generally shorter. Leaf blades are narrowly elongated, with a sword or various bands, and most leaf margins are serrated. The leathery leaves are colorful. The flowers are even more colorful. Its flowers and leaves are as if coated with a layer of wax, soft with hard and shiny. Equal to the top of the base of the leaf blade, often stacked tightly with each other into an outwardly expanding rosette, like an artificially produced water container, can be stored in order to prepare for the drought slowly "drinking". Therefore, it is a famous indoor foliage and flower plant. As a living room decoration, it is both warm and subtle, and is very ornamental.
Leaves thin and broad, and the edge of the thorns, the fruit is born in the leaves, the fruit skin like polonium and color yellow, taste sweet and slightly acidic, the apex with a cluster of green leaves, shaped like a phoenix tail, so the name pineapple. My hometown is the origin of the pineapple, this fruit is very troublesome to eat, you have to peel off the skin and small burrs under the skin, and then soak in salt water for a while before you can eat, the flavor is particularly sweet, called the more you eat the more you love to eat, too don't crave oh, eat more teeth will be acidic even the tofu can't be bitten, but also on fire!