As a flower of Gesneriaceae, shade tolerance and flowering are its greatest advantages, which are deeply loved by many flower lovers. In addition to African violets and pittosporum, different colors of long-tube flowers are even more dazzling! In early winter, when the weather turns cold, the long-tube flowers will sleep and the aboveground parts will wither. At this time, after we dry the soil, we will find a small shovel and dig it out slowly. Remember to move gently, and you can see the bugs slowly coming out of the pot soil! We kept digging until we dug up the whole flowerpot and found a plate of "big meat bugs"! These things that look like caterpillars are fake bulbs with long flowers! Because it looks too much like a carnivore, everyone affectionately calls it a bug! Now, the worms dug out can be dried in the air for a few days, so that its water can evaporate, and then wrapped in toilet paper, or find a disposable plastic bag or a sealed bag, add some vermiculite, seal it directly, and keep it in a dry place at home. Long-tube flowers can be propagated through pseudobulb. Insects collected in winter can be spread flat in moist soil next spring, covered with a little soil and sprayed with water to keep moisture, which will soon make pseudobulb take root and sprout, and start to grow new seedlings! The survival rate of long-tube carnivores is very high, even if there is only one scale, they can germinate, and they are not afraid of being accidentally broken or even moldy and black when digging insects. It will germinate when planted in the soil next year.
This flower was dug up and turned out to be a cicada!
In recent two years, a kind of fireworks comparable to Cordyceps sinensis appeared, commonly known as golden cicada flower. If you go for a walk in the wild, especially if you open thick rotten leaves, you can see yellow flowers. This is a golden cicada! Dig up the soil next to it with a small shovel and dig the golden cicada out of the soil. You can see its root, hiding a cicada monkey! Why is this happening? In fact, the golden cicada belongs to a fungus, which is the larva of cicada. After it died in the soil, it was infected by Cordyceps sinensis. If the temperature is right, the mycelium will infect the whole worm, hollowing out the nutrition of the larva, leaving only an empty shell, and then slowly emerge. This is called cicada flower. The formation principle of cicada flower is the same as that of Cordyceps sinensis, so its nutritional value is quite high. In many places in the south, golden cicada flowers are used to make soup. But for many people who don't know its growth principle, the cicada monkey's shell is left after boiling soup. I don't know where it came from!
This flower is dug out, and the basin is full of silkworms!
When I was a child, I often saw a flower called stachys, and in some places it was also called potato. Belonging to herbaceous flowers. In the wild, although it can produce small pink flowers, it looks ugly among many beautiful wild flowers. If you pull the silkworm out and pull a hole in the radish, you can see that there are many white and tender things in its root. It looks like a little silkworm. Some people think it's cute, others think it's disgusting. But do you feel familiar when you see something like nuts? Our mother and grandmother often dig out the roots of the grass silkworm, wash them and throw them into the pickle jar for pickling. Pickled side dishes are crisp and delicious! If you can't tell which silkworm is wild, you can go to the supermarket to buy it, but you'd better be careful when buying it. Many supermarkets sell Cordyceps sinensis, and the price is not cheap!
When this flower is in full bloom, it looks like a caterpillar!
The walnuts that I usually eat are all dried walnuts bought in the supermarket, and the skin has turned brown. If walnuts are local, you can see green husk and unripe walnuts at most. But have you ever seen walnuts blossom? When the walnut blooms in April, it suddenly looks like a caterpillar hanging on a branch, more like our common Yang Shuhua! After the walnut flower is washed, it can be fried, fried with meat or even mixed with tofu to make soup. It is delicious. In some local vegetable markets, you can also see dried walnut flowers!
This flower burst into a pot, and the pot was full of caterpillars!
Among the fleshy meat, there is a kind of flower that looks particularly strange, called white sandalwood.
Its branches are short and thick with white fluff. It looks like a caterpillar lying in a flowerpot, especially when it looks crooked and irregular, it looks even uglier! The twigs of Dalbergia odorifera grow rapidly and can also produce bright red flowers. Once it blooms, it will increase the value of Dalbergia odorifera by several grades, and it will never be disgusting to this caterpillar again! The reproduction of Dalbergia odorifera is also super simple. Just pinch a branch and put it in a well-ventilated place at home for a few days, then insert it into wet soil and put it in a cool and ventilated place. Then you don't have to worry about it, just wait for it to take root and sprout slowly! The maintenance of white sandalwood is particularly simple, with more sun and less water, especially when the temperature is low in winter, once every ten days and a half months, and it will not dry up at all. Occasionally give some slow-release fertilizer to make the white sandalwood grow much longer and explode more easily! In addition, there is a kind of flower that looks like a caterpillar, called monkey tail column. As can be seen from its name, its branches are furry, thin and long, like the tail of a monkey, and look particularly cute!
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The cat's tail is as red as a caterpillar, and the kitten's tail is very short. Compared with other caterpillar flowers, it has a higher face value and a longer flowering period, which can last for several months! Its plants are small and exquisite, which is very suitable for hanging and raising, so some people call it Chlorophytum rubrum. Hanging a pot on the windowsill looks particularly interesting. The cat's tail is red and shiny. Everyone usually moves to a place with good light to bask in the sun, picks up the flowerpot and feels that the soil in the pot becomes lighter. They took it off the hook, watered it, and hung it up to raise it when it stopped seeping.
Spiders hold eggs.
My family raised a pot of flying grass before. After flowering, small balls appear in the flowerpot. When it doesn't bloom, it looks like a small steamed stuffed bun, and when it blooms, it looks like a small spider, hence the name spider holds eggs. Eupatorium odoratum is particularly shade-tolerant, and it can grow as long as it is given some light. And its leaves are green all year round, which is very suitable for family flowers with poor lighting. You can reduce watering in winter and make it live longer! Of course, it is best to keep the temperature above 15 to prevent frostbite.