Chinese Name: Drip Guanyin (Drip Lotus)

Drip Guanyin [1]

Drip Guanyin is a trade name, also known as "drip lotus" and bergamot lotus. Other common names include Stellera chamaejasme (underground stem), Tianhe, Guanyin lotus, shameless grass, Gehexian, Guanyin taro, Guangdong Stellera chamaejasme taro, Stellera chamaejasme (Guangdong), wild taro, sweet potato taro, big root taro, big worm taro, Japanese taro, Meng Tian and so on. ......

This plant is a perennial evergreen herb with medicinal value. [2]

The flower language of dripping Guanyin-like-minded, sincere, interesting and delicate.

Drip Guanyin, whose scientific name is Alocasia alopecuroides, was called "Guanyin Lotus" and "Shame on Cao Tian" in ancient times, which has the effect of removing air dust. [2-3]

The white juice in the dripping roots and stems of Guanyin is toxic, and the dripping "water" is also toxic. Skin contact can cause itching or strong irritation, and eye contact can cause severe conjunctivitis and even blindness. [1] The fruit is red and highly toxic.

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morphological character

Photo Gallery: Drip Guanyin (20 photos) Erect perennial herb with underground fleshy rhizome, long petiole, broad leaf sheath, large leaves, shield-shaped broad arrow, and clustered stem tips and ends.

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Sharp, edge microwave, main pulse is obvious. The spathe is yellow-green with spikes. [2]

The stems on the ground are stout, sometimes as high as 2-3 meters, and the highest height of the whole plant can reach 5 meters. Creeping rhizomes are 5-8 cm thick, cylindrical, jointed and usually have adventitious buds. Leaves are numerous, spirally arranged; The petiole is stout, with a length of 1.5m, a sheath at the lower part of 1/2 and a sheath at the base of 5- 10cm. Leaves leathery, slightly shiny, green, light back, extremely wide, arrow-shaped, wavy edge, 50-90cm long and 40-80cm wide. The front lobe is broadly ovoid, the tip is tapered, the length and width are equal, and the rear lobe is semi-ovoid. The length is about 1/3 of the anterior lobe, the basal ganglia is short and the curve is round, and the posterior basilar vein is at right angles or acute angles to each other; The vein on the first side of the anterior lobe is 6- 10, which is slightly wider. Peduncle 2-3 clusters, cylindrical, each covered by bracts (scales) 50 cm long and 8 cm wide. The latter is needle-shaped and green. Peduncle length (12-) 50-60 cm, light green. The tubular part of the spatula is swept into a circular oval shape.

A set of Guanyin dripping pictures (19) is oval, white and green, 3-5 cm long and 4 cm thick; The eaves are white-green, yellow-green, white again, boat-shaped, rectangular, slightly pointed at the top, slightly bent downward, (10-) 20-30 cm long and (4-) 5-8 cm wide. [2]

Spike: the female inflorescence is cylindrical, with a length of (2-) 3-4 cm, and the sterile male inflorescence is (2.5-) 5-6 cm, which gradually shrinks into a fertile male inflorescence with a length of 3-7 cm; The appendix is conical, milky yellow, thick at the base, 3-5.5 cm long and 1-2 cm thick, with a blunt top and irregular grooves. Female flower: the ovary is prismatic, and the top gradually narrows into an obvious style, the stigma is discoid, the ovule is ovoid, and the basal embryo seat. Sterile male flowers are flat and hexagonal at the top. Berry is bright red, short oval, about 1 cm long and 5-9 mm in diameter. The flowering period is from April to July, and it can also bloom under warm and humid conditions. [3]

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geographical distribution

It is distributed in tropical rain forests and wild plantain forests at an altitude of 200- 1 100 meters in central and southern Yunnan Province. Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong and coastal islands, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces.

Foreign countries are distributed in Bangladesh, northeast India (Sika Mountain), Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. [3]

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Planting technique

Production standard: 20cm pot: height 20-30cm, crown width about 25cm, number of leaves 6-7 per plant, 4 months.

Substrate preparation: cultivate with a mixture of loose domestic peat, pond mud, peat soil and coarse sand and a small amount of cake-cake fertilizer at a ratio of 2∶2∶ 1, and add water to the peat and mix well. (The standard of adding water is: after mixing evenly, hold a handful of peat in your hand and water will seep out from your fingers. ).

Pot filling: The reused old pot must be soaked in 1000 times potassium permanganate solution for more than half an hour, then washed with clear water and dried for later use. Large potted plants are generally planted in pots of 20cm size. When planting, put a substrate of about 4cm on the bottom of the cup, and then move the seedlings into the cup. Don't plant the seedlings too deep, and the base of the plant should be flat. The substrate has moderate elasticity, and it can be filled in cups for 8 minutes, with 2-3 plants per pot. [4]

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Hydroponics

Hydroponic dripping Guanyin can turn soil-cultivated plants into hydroponic plants by washing roots. When washing roots, be careful not to damage tubers and roots, and at the same time cut off rotten roots and old roots. If the tuber has no roots, it should be dried in the shade for 2~3 days, and then immersed in water after the wound is dry. New roots can be seen in 2~3 days.

At the initial stage of hydroponics, the water was changed every 2-3 days, and the water depth was 2/3 of the root system. After three weeks, new roots can grow. After the hydroponic plants adapt to the hydroponic environment, they should be cultured in nutrient solution. Then change the nutrient solution once a month or so.

Because the stem tissue of dripping Guanyin is loose, such as poor water quality, it is easy to be polluted, so it causes rotten roots and stems. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the bottle water clean, and at the same time, clean the mucus on the tubers and roots by changing water or nutrient solution on the back, and cut off the rotten roots. [5]

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cultivation techniques

If the air and humidity are too low, the water will evaporate immediately, so there are more water droplets in the morning, which is the so-called "spitting water" phenomenon (not just taro). Flowers, like Buddha flame, belong to "Buddha flame inflorescence". It is an ornamental flower plant, and likes warm, humid and abundant sunshine, usually in winter.

dripping guanyin

Flowering in spring, the dormant period is 1 1 to May and June of the following year, and the full flowering period is February-April.

1, the growth temperature is 20-30℃, and the lowest can reach 8℃. As long as the soil is moist in summer, sprayed with water frequently and shaded, and the room temperature is not lower than 5℃ in winter, it can still grow normally. Drip Guanyin is an undergrowth plant in the tropical rain forest, so its growth needs high humidity and scattered light.

2. Because shade-tolerant plants like semi-shade environment, they should be placed in an environment that can both shade and ventilate.

3, particularly humid, the growing season not only requires the soil to be moist, but also requires the air humidity to be no less than 60%. When it is hot in summer, it is necessary to strengthen water spraying to create a relatively cool and humid environment. If placed in an indoor air-conditioned hall, make sure that the soil in the basin is moist and spray water on the leaves from time to time. If the room temperature does not reach 15℃ in winter, it is necessary to control watering, otherwise it will easily lead to root rot. In general, spraying warm water 1 time a week can keep its leaves dark green.

4. Humus soil, peat soil, river sand and a small amount of soaked cake fertilizer can be used for mixed nutrient soil cultivation, and others can also be hydroponic, but attention should be paid to preventing root rot and addition.

Appreciation of Guanyin diagram of nutrient solution dripping (19 diagram). Change the basin 1 time every spring and loosen the soil 1 time every month to keep the basin soil in a good permeable state.