Duckweed will flower. It blooms from September to December every year, with small yellowish greenish flowers with a sugary scent and purple berries in the style, which is very elegant.

Duckweed umbels with 10-15 flowers; common pedicel slender, 1-2 cm long, stellate pubescent; pedicel 4-5 mm long, stellate pubescent; bracteoles small, persistent; flowers white; calyx is about 2.5 mm long, stellate pubescent when young, then become glabrous, the edge nearly entire or with 5-6 small teeth.

Petals of duckweed 5-6, reflexed at flowering, glabrous; stamens 5-6, slightly longer than petals; ovary 5-7-locular, sparsely 9-10-locular; styles united into a stubby column; disk flat. Fruit globose, black, ca. 5 mm in diam. with inconspicuous ribs; persistent styles very stout and short, 1 mm long or slightly shorter; stigmas capitate.

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Duckweed is a shade-tolerant evergreen that avoids direct sunlight; it needs both light and should avoid sharp changes in light.

Duck-footed wood, cuttings from November to February each year, you can dig the stump on the seedling potted, placed in the shade and ventilation, normal seedlings grow rapidly. Potting should be a sandy loam mixed with sand and pond soil with breathable drainage. After survival, apply 1-2 times a month the appropriate amount of mixed fertilizer or liquid fertilizer. Watering should be moderate to ensure normal growth.

Duck-footed wood this flower form ambrosia, shade-tolerant evergreen, with layered foliage. Shantou face stone garden landscape area of this kind of flowers and trees for potting success, can be used as an ideal indoor evergreen foliage bonsai. In order to adapt to the bonsai modeling, to reasonable pruning, thinning buds, in order to show the beautiful characteristics.

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