Chinese name
Fuguizi
Latin name
Ardisia crenata Sims
Alias
Cinnabar Root, Red Cooling Umbrella, Hundred Liang Jin
Boundary
Botanical Kingdom
Portal
Angiospermae
Morphological Characteristics
The plant is 0.4 to 1 meter tall, with alternate leaf blades, thick and glossy, with obtuse teeth on the edges, and there are
Fuguizi
Red-leaved and green-leaved varieties. Summer flowering and fruiting, flowers white or pink, arranged in umbels; fruit spherical, like the size of a pea, bright red, translucent when ripe, around the branches. The fruit of the previous year has not yet fallen off, the next year and can blossom and bear fruit, a tree 365 days can enjoy the fruit, red fruit period of 9 months, covering New Year's Day, Spring Festival and all of spring. The bunches of red fruits are glittering with the light of wealth and prosperity, symbolizing the joy of success and harvest.
Fuguizi as a flower family of a newcomer, has become Christmas, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival fashionable colorful flowers, loved by the surplus of the rich room, in the Kunming World Expo and the Cross-Straits Flower Expo, won the highest award of the fruit flowers, was the authoritative experts of the flower called "is the future overwhelmed the domestic sales of the largest fruit flower products --- kumquat expectant products, the most popular products, and the most popular products. --The kumquat is the expected product".
Growth habit
Fuguizi like shady and humid environment, spring should be arranged in the morning and evening light on the window sill culture, to keep the potting soil moist, it should be often sprayed around and leaves sprinkled a few times in order to increase the humidity of the air, pay attention to the ventilation of the room. New leaves sprouting after the start of fertilizer. When the outdoor temperature stabilizes above 15 ℃ can be moved to the semi-shaded balcony or courtyard culture. After the temperature rises in late spring, the growth accelerates, pay attention to water and fertilizer supplementation.
Geographical distribution
Fuguizi distribution in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Fujian and other places, often growing in the shade of the valley, very suitable for pot plants.
Cultivation
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Fuguizi
Fuguizi belongs to the semi-shade plants, like semi-shade, loose soil, well-ventilated and short-sunshine growing environment. To plant well, you must create a good environment for it.
Build shade shed can use plastic greenhouses, can also be made of shade net shade shed, requiring shade rate of 60% to 90%. In short, can play the effect of shading sunlight, cooling and humidification can be.
Cultivation soil can be used to buy nutrient soil, can also be self-mixed nutrient soil.
Method of preparation: 70% to 80% of the more fertile soil (pond mud, humus, old garden soil, field soil), 10 % to 15% of the coarse sand, 10% to 15% of the rotted non-greasy wood shavings or unburned huller ash, formulated into a nutrient soil, but also can take other methods of preparation. In short, the nutrient soil should be fertile and loose, good drainage requirements.
Transplanting pots Depending on the size of the seedlings to determine the size of the pot or nutrient bowl (bag). Put the plant into the center of the pot after the soil pressure, so that the root system and the culture of soil contact. Sprinkle a layer of coarse pond soil or a layer of moss on the potting soil, and be careful not to exceed the surface of the pot, in order to prevent the potting soil from being drenched when watering and overflowing out of the pot when applying fertilizer. Place it in a shade shelter or a cool place without sunlight, water it thoroughly to the extent that the bottom of the pot discharges water. 10 to 15 days later, it can be transferred to normal management.