The flower lovers are the maintenance of weeds, and it is also good and ornamental to maintain Potatoes, wild cotton, Zanthoxylum nitidum, Crown grass, Herba Lycopodii, Herba Ajugae, Centella asiatica, Phyllanthus urinaria, and other weeds in the yard with light.
However, it is very strange to have 1 kind of weeds. Plants not only have thick green leaves, but also produce a strange fruit in the fruit-bearing period. The color of this fruit is green, but the fruit is relatively small.
This plant is distributed in wet places, such as growing in wet ravines and crevices, and usually produces a large area in ravines. The small green fruits it produces are also rare. Because the meaning of the plant is better, it is not bad to maintain it at home. Let's learn about this plant together.
1 A kind of wild grass produces a "little green fruit", which is rare to breed in a ravine and is kept at home!
Shigan olive
Its name is stone olive. Although it is a wild plant, it is valuable to plant it in a flowerpot as a potted ornamental.
Chinese olive is as easy to raise as chlorophytum, ivy, bamboo plum, fruit taro, Changchun vine, rubber tree, Clivia, green radish, cycad and rich tree, and plants can grow vigorously without any management on the balcony.
However, in order to make it grow better, it is necessary to increase the humidity of the environment during the maintenance process, such as spraying water on the leaves of plants.
Is there any other value besides ornamental value of the stone olive? There must be.
We have recorded the Chinese olive in Hunan Pharmacology and Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine. It is a kind of plant that can be made into Chinese herbal medicine, and the plants are rare now. Flower friends should not uproot it as a weed, but better protect it.
In other documents, it is recorded that Chinese olive contains components such as urushiol, cyclostylenol and cyclostylone, which have certain pharmacological effects and specific uses.
Stone olives can be harvested all year round, and it also has a name called Shi Xiantao, which I think is more pleasant to listen to.
The fruiting period of the plant is in September. In fact, there are fruits in 1 month. Its peduncle is 4-6 mm long, and the capsule is in an inverted oval shape.
Generally speaking, the small fruit of Chinese olive is better, and the single-leaf small fruit Chinese olive is more popular than other varieties. I think it is also good to pot Chinese olive at home.
Do you know this kind of stone olive?