As the flowers of the family of endive, shade tolerance and flowering is their biggest advantage, by many flower lovers like, in addition to the African violets, big rockery, a variety of different flower colors of the long tube flowers, simply stunning your eyes!
Early winter season, the weather becomes cold, long tube flower to dormant, the ground part of the withered, at this time we dry potting soil, find a small shovel, slowly dig it out, remember to move a little bit lighter, you can see the potting soil in the little bugs slowly revealed!
We continue to dig, wait until the entire pot to clean up, found that the harvest of a plate of "big meat worms"!
These caterpillar-like looking things are the pseudobulbs of the long-tubed flower! Because they look so much like large meatworms, they are affectionately called worms!
Now digging out the worms, you can slightly dry a few days, so that its moisture evaporates, and then wrapped with toilet paper, or find disposable plastic bags or ziplock bags, mixed with some vermiculite or other direct sealing, and placed in the home in a dry place for storage.
Long tube flowers can be propagated by pseudobulbs. The worms collected in winter can be placed flat in moist soil the following spring, and then slightly covered with soil, pay attention to spraying and moisturizing, and soon the pseudobulbs will sprout white roots and begin to grow into a new seedling!
The large flesh worm of the long tube flower, the survival rate is very high, even if there is only one scale can germinate, so you are digging up the worm, if you accidentally dig off, or even the appearance of mold and blackening of the phenomenon is not afraid of, the next year planted in the soil, or can sprout.
This flower dug out, surprisingly robin!
These two years, there is a flower comparable to Cordyceps sinensis fire, commonly known as the golden cicadas flowers, go to the field to stroll around, especially pick open the thick rotting leaves, you can see the small yellow flowers!
With its own small shovel pick open the soil next to the golden cicada flower from the soil, you can see its root system part, surprisingly hiding a robin monkey!
Why does this phenomenon occur? In fact, the golden cicada flower belongs to a kind of fungus, that is, the cicada's larva, after dying in the soil, it is infected and parasitized by Cordyceps sinensis, if the temperature is right, the mycelium will infect the whole worm, and empty the larva's nutrients, leaving only an empty shell, and then it slowly emerges.
Cicada flowers and cordyceps formation principle is the same, so the nutritional value is also quite high, in many areas of the south, the golden cicada flowers will be used to make soup to drink. However, for many people who do not know the principle of its growth, after making soup, the remaining shell of the robin monkey, but also really do not know where it comes from!
This flower dug out, full of pots of silkworms!
Children often see a kind of flower, called grass stone silkworm, some places are also called pagoda cabbage, belong to the herb flower, in the wild, although it can bloom pink flowers, but in the many beautiful wildflowers, looking at some of its appearance.
If you pull out the grass stoneworms, pulling carrots with pits like, you can see its root system with a lot of white and tender things, looking like a baby silkworm, some people think it's cute, some people think it's disgusting.
But to see something like a screw cap, we are not familiar with a lot? Our mother's generation grandmother generation, often dig up the rhizome part of the grass stoneworms, washed and thrown into the pickle jar pickles, pickled out of the small vegetables and crisp and refreshing, especially delicious!
If you can't tell which is the grass in the wild, go to the supermarket can also buy, but we go to buy the best to keep an eye out, there are many supermarkets as it can be Cordyceps to sell, the price is not cheap it!
This flower is like a caterpillar when it blooms!
We usually eat walnuts, are in the supermarket to buy dry walnuts, the outer skin has become brown, if the local production walnut, at most can see the outer skin is still green, not mature walnut fruit.
But you've seen the walnut blossom, April walnut blossom, a fierce look, as if the caterpillar hanging in the branches, with our common poplar flower is more like!
After the walnuts are cleaned, they can be sauteed, or stir-fried, or even mixed with tofu, soup, the taste is particularly good, and in some places in the market, you can also see the dried walnut flowers!
This flower a burst pot, full of caterpillars!
In succulents, there is a particularly strange-looking flower called white sandalwood. Its branches are short and thick, but also with white fluff, look especially like a caterpillar lying in the pot, especially when the growth of crooked and not very regular, the appearance becomes more ugly!
White sandalwood's small branches, branches grow especially fast, and also can produce red brilliant flowers, a flower, the white sandalwood's face value pulled up several grades, no longer feel the pot of caterpillars disgusting!
White sandalwood reproduction is also super simple, just pinch a section of the branch, placed in your home ventilated place to slow down for a few days, and then casually inserted into the moist point of the soil, put in a cool and ventilated place, then do not need to worry about you, just waiting for it slowly rooted and burst the pot it!
White sandalwood maintenance is extraordinarily simple, more sun, less watering, especially in the winter temperature is low, ten days and a half months watering 1 time, will not dry up and die, and occasionally to give a little slow-release fertilizer, so that the white sandalwood grows more, more likely to burst pots!
Other than that, there is a flower that looks like a caterpillar, called the monkey's tail column, listen to the name to know, its branches fluffy, thin and long as if the monkey's tail, look at it is also particularly lovely!
Cat's Tail Red
Cat's Tail Red looks like a caterpillar and a short kitten's tail, which is relatively high in value compared to other caterpillar flowers, and has a long blooming period that lasts for several months!
It is a small and delicate plant, very suitable for hanging up to raise, so some people also call it the red tasseled orchid, hanging a pot on the windowsill, looking particularly interesting.
Cat's Tail Red likes light, we usually move to a place with good light and sunshine, weighing the pot, feel the potting soil becomes lighter, take it down from the hook, water it thoroughly, and so on it does not seepage, and then re-hang it up to raise.
Spider embracing eggs
Home previously raised a pot of a leaf orchid, flowering in the pot part of the emergence of a small ball, not flowering like a small bag, after flowering like a small spider, so the name spider embracing eggs.
One-leaf orchid is particularly shade-tolerant, as long as you give a little light can grow, and the leaves are green all year round, very suitable for home light is not good for florists to raise, the winter can reduce the watering, can let it live longer! Of course, it is best to keep the temperature above 15 ℃ to prevent frostbite.