1, the growth temperature of 20-30 degrees, the lowest can tolerate 8 degrees low temperature, high temperature in summer as long as the soil is kept moist, often spray water, shade can still grow normally, winter room temperature should not be lower than 5 degrees.
2, for shade-tolerant plants like semi-shade environment, should be placed in both shade and ventilation of the environment, not in the hot sun to avoid large-scale plant burns.
3, especially moisture, the growing season not only requires wet potting soil, but also requires air humidity of not less than 60%. Summer heat to strengthen the water spray, to create a relatively cool and moist environment, placed in the indoor air-conditioned hall, both to ensure that the potting soil is moist, but also from time to time to the foliage water spray. If the room temperature in winter can not reach 15 degrees should control the watering, otherwise it is easy to lead to root rot, under normal circumstances, spray warm water once a week to keep its leaves green.
4, available leaf litter, peat soil, river sand plus a small amount of composted cake fertilizer mixed preparation of nutrient soil cultivation. Usually change the pot once a year in the spring, you can loosen the soil once a month to keep the potting soil in a good state of permeability.
5, more like fertilizer, March to October should be applied every half a month of liquid fertilizer, especially should increase the amount of nitrogen fertilizer, so that the leaves will grow as big as a lotus leaf, clean and attractive. Fertilizer should be stopped when the temperature is lower than 15 degrees (the scientific name of the drip Guanyin is called calla lilies, which is characterized by when the soil water content is large, it will drip from the tip of the leaf or the edge of the leaf downward, so it is also known as the drip Guanyin.
The water-dripping Guanyin is a very common house green potted plant, but because it is a tropical plant, it does not usually bloom in the north. But it will bloom if the temperature and other conditions at home are right.
It does not require much soil, but it grows best in well-drained, sandy loam or humus loam containing organic matter. Since Drip Guanyin loves warm, moist and semi-shady environments by nature and is not hardy, it is important to keep the potting soil moist during the growing season.
Now in summer, you should put the pot in a semi-shade and ventilated place, and often spray water to the surrounding and foliage, in order to increase the humidity of the air, reduce the temperature of the leaves, and keep the leaves clean.
Because the drip Guanyin grows very fast, so in the process of growth, fertilization must be moderate, 1-2 times a month of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, thin fertilizer is good, otherwise it is easy to cause the drip Guanyin stems at the lower end of the empty bald, affecting the ornamental value.
If you want to raise in the indoor drip water Goddess of Mercy small and exquisite, then just wait until it grows to a foot of seedlings, suitable for home placement, immediately with 2% of the multi-nitrozole solution spraying the whole plant, and then grow the stems and leaves are no more than 40 centimeters high, and the leaves are fat and thick, ornamental value is very high. Half a year or so spraying once can play a good role in controlling height.
To remind the flower friends is that the drip Guanyin stems within the sap is poisonous, dripping water is also poisonous, accidentally touch or accidentally eat its sap, will cause discomfort in the throat and mouth, stomach burning sensation. Special attention should be paid to prevent young children from accidentally eating.
Calla Lily
Chinese name: Calla Lily
Scientific name: Zantedeschia aethiopica (L.) Spreng
Family name: Araceae 天南星科
Alias: Calla Lily, wild taro, water taro
Flowering period／March to August
Flowering language. Like-mindedness, sincerity, interesting, inner beauty
Use: 1. The spathe is a popular flower, can be used in flower arrangements, baskets and bridal bouquets.
2. Roots and leaves can be ground with vinegar and used to treat insect sores and ringworm.
Shape: wet or aquatic perennial herb, underground with tubers. Petiole up to fifty to ninety centimeters long, the base into a sheath; leaf blade heart-shaped arrow or arrow-shaped, the base of the heart or halberd-shaped, all green, twenty to fifty centimeters long. Flowers in all seasons, spathe white, broadly combustible in outline, fleshy spikes yellow, male flowers above, numerous, female flowers below, few; berries yellowish, but not very fruitful.
Distribution: native to South Africa, now widely cultivated in Taiwan, available in the flower market in almost all seasons
Toxic parts: tuber, spathe and inflorescence are poisonous.
Toxicity: Chewing a small piece of tuber can cause swelling and pain in the throat and paralysis of the mouth. There was a report that an 8-year-old girl was poisoned by chewing the inflorescences, and she was in a coma for 12 hours, and recovered only after 24 hours.
Alias trace taro, wolfsbane [Guangdong], wild taro, yam, large insect taro, Tianyao, Tianmeng
Source The rhizome of Alocasia odora (Roxb.) K. Koch in the family Alocasiaceae. It can be harvested throughout the year, and the outer layer of coarse skin is removed, used fresh or sliced and dried.
The properties and flavors are slightly pungent, astringent, cold. Toxic.
Functions and Indications: Clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing swelling. Used for colds, tuberculosis, intestinal typhoid fever; external use for insect and snake bites, sores and swelling.
Use and dosage of dried products 3 to 5 money, fresh products 1 to 2 two, long decoction before internal use; external use of the appropriate amount, fresh products pounded on the affected area, can not be applied to normal skin.
Note that only after a long time of decoction can be taken internally; can not be applied to normal skin.
Remarks (1) This product is poisonous. It must be fried with rice*** until burnt, and decocted for a long time (more than 2 hours) to remove the poison before it can be taken internally. Raw or fried for too short a period of time, will cause tongue swelling and numbness, or even have symptoms of central nervous system poisoning. In mild cases, it can be detoxified by drinking rice vinegar or ginger.
Excerpts from the National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine
☆→The Legend of the Calla Lily
The appearance of the calla lily is simple and pure, especially the pure white calla lily and the same as the people have a clean and soft feeling, in the English language, is the Nile lily to call her; in Japan, she is known as the Dutch calla lily, because the calla lily in the importation of Japan is the Dutch ship to Japan; However, her botanical classification of the genus name Zantedeschia was named in honor of an Italian botanist and physician.
☆→Characteristics of calla lilies
Calla lilies are perennial herbs, and are also a type of bulbous plant. The underground stem looks similar to the taro we eat. In the leaf part of the calla, the shape of the egg heart-shaped more, but depending on the variety of arrow-shaped and lance-shaped; even some varieties of foliage and scattered with white or yellow spots, the edge of the leaf is very complete and has a fifty to ninety centimeters long thick petiole.
Calla lily's flower shape, can be said to be the most simple of all flowers; and is usually appreciated as a flower in the funnel-shaped part, in fact, is a deformation of the leaf, in the professional name for "spathe". So where is the real flower of the calla lily? It turns out that the spathe in the middle of the yellow stick, is the calla lily's fleshy inflorescence; its male flowers are more, long in the upper part of the fleshy spike, female flowers are less, located in the lower part of the fleshy spike.
Native to Africa calla lilies, and divided into aquatic and terrestrial two kinds; generally we often see the white calla lilies are belong to the aquatic species; and terrestrial species of calla lilies, such as yellow white star calla lilies, red calla lilies, etc., is not suitable for planting in the water in the place of more air, and also hibernation habit, the color of the flower is also a lot more than the aquatic species. However, we now see the pink, red, yellow, purple and other different flower colors of calla lilies, most of them are cultivated out of the varieties, and no longer the native species of calla lilies.
Conocasia Alocasia macrorrhiza (L.) Schott
The family Amanita, the genus Conocasia; erect herbs, above-ground stems sometimes up to 2-3 meters high. Rootstock 5-8 cm thick, terete, nodding, often bearing indeterminate shoots. Petiole thick, up to 1.5 m long, lower 12 with sheaths, base with sheaths 5-10 cm wide; leaf blade leathery, surface slightly shiny, green, dorsally paler, very broad, arrow-shaped ovate, margin shallowly undulate, 50-90 cm long, 40-80 cm wide, anterior lobes broadly ovate, apex acuminate, length and width several times equal, posterior lobes broadly ovate, apex acuminate. several equal in length and width, posterior lobes semiovate; ca. 13 as long as anterior lobes, basal unions shorter, curved notched rounded, posterior basal veins alternate at right angles or acute angles; anterior lobes class I lateral veins 6-10 pairs, slightly wider. Inflorescence stalks 2-3-clustered, terete, each covered with bracts (scale leaves) 50 cm long, ca. 8 cm wide, the latter lanceolate, green; inflorescence stalks (12-)50-60 cm long, light green. Spathe tube swept into oblong-ovate or ovate, whitish-green, 3-5 cm long, 4 cm thick; limb whitish-green, yellowish-green, turning white, navicular, oblong, apex slightly protruding, slightly recurved, (10-)20-30 cm long, spreading (4-)5-8 cm wide. Flesh spikes aromatic: female inflorescences cylindrical, (2-)3-4 cm long, sterile male inflorescences (2.5-)5-6 cm long, tapering into fertile male inflorescences, the latter 3-7 cm long; appendages paniculate, milky yellow, thicker at base, 3-5.5 cm long, 1-7 cm thick. 5.5 cm, 1-2 cm thick, apex obtuse, embedded in irregular grooves. Female flowers: ovary prismatic, apex tapering into a conspicuous style, stigma discoid, ovule ovate, basal locule. Sterile male flowers flattened, hexagonal apically. Berry bright red, short ovoid, ca. 1 cm, 5-9 mm in diam. Flowering April-July (green spring).
Produced in tropical rain forests and wild plantain forests south, west to southeast Yunnan, 200-1100 m above sea level. Also in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Guangdong, and coastal islands, Fujian, and Taiwan. It occurs in Bangladesh, NE India (Khasi Hills), Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand to the Philippines. Wild or cultivated.
The rhizome is a stomachic, effective for abdominal pain, cholera, and hernia. It can also be used to treat tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis, colds, influenza, intestinal typhus, cancerous toxins, snake and insect bites, burns and fire; kerosene can be used externally to treat neurodermatitis. It can be used externally with kerosene to treat neural dermatitis. It is also used by veterinarians to treat cattle typhus and pig dengue. This product is toxic, must be decocted for a long time and change the water 2-3 times before taking. Toxic components are calcium oxalate and saponin (Sapotoxin); skin contact with the sap is itchy; eye contact with it leads to blindness. Accidental ingestion of stems and leaves will itchy throat and tongue, swelling, salivation, gastrointestinal burning pain, nausea, diarrhea, sweating, convulsions, severe cases of asphyxiation, heart paralysis and death. Folk use vinegar with a little ginger juice **** boiled, taken internally or gargled to detoxify.
Calla Lily
English name: Zantedeschia aethiopica Spreng.
Calla Lily is a bulbous flower in the family of Amanita phalloides, the natural flowering period from November until the following June, the entire flowering period of 6-7 months, and is in the peak season of flowers. Due to the bright green leaves, flower bracts white and large, like a horseshoe, peculiar shape, is an important cut flower at home and abroad, the use is very wide.
Ecological habit:
Calla lily is native to southern Africa in the rivers or swamps. Prefer warm climate, not cold, growing temperature of about 20 ℃. Like moist environment, intolerant of drought. Winter requires sufficient light, insufficient light with less flowers, slightly shade-tolerant. Prefer loose, fertile, humus-rich sandy loam. Its dormancy period varies with different regions. In China's Yangtze River Basin and northern cultivation, the winter is appropriate to move into the greenhouse, winter and spring flowering, summer due to high temperature and drought and dormancy; and in the winter is not cold, summer is not dry and hot subtropical areas throughout the year is not dormant.
Varieties:
There are three varieties in common cultivation. (1) White-stemmed calla lily Smaller tubers, slower growth. However, it blooms early, has many flowers, white pedicels, and a large, round spathe. (2) Red-stemmed calla lily pedicel base slightly reddish, flowering a little later than the white-stemmed calla lily, spathe more round. (3) Green-stemmed calla lily tubers thick, vigorous growth, flowering late. The pedicel is stout and slightly triangular. The spathe is pointed and rolled back, yellowish-white, and smaller than the last two. In addition, there are common cultivars of the same genus, such as yellow calla lily: deep yellow, flowering in July-August, dormant in winter; red calla lily: dwarf, flowering in June; silver star calla lily: leaves with white patches, spathe white or yellowish, the base of the spathe with a purplish-red spot, flowering in July-August, dormant in winter; black-centered calla lily: deep yellow, with a black spot in the throat.
Propagation and Cultivation:
(1) Propagation is mainly by division. After the plant enters the dormant period, peel off the small balls around the tuber and plant them separately. Can also be sown to propagate, seed maturity that is sown in pots. Germination temperature of about 20 ℃. (2) Cultivation of calla lily is usually planted in the fall after the ball. Bed planting row spacing 25 cm, plant spacing 10 cm. With fertile and slightly clay soil, such as: available garden soil 2, huller ash 1, and then slightly add some bone meal or stable manure; can also be used in finely crushed pond mud 2, rotting soil (or compost) 1, add appropriate amount of calcium superphosphate and rotting cow dung formulated soil. After planting mulch 3 cm - 4 cm thick, 20 days or so can be seedlings. Calla lily during the growth period like sufficient water, to often sprinkle water to the foliage, the ground, and pay attention to the foliage clean. Semi-monthly liquid fertilizer 1 time. Fertilizer should also be immediately rinsed with water to prevent accidents, before the frost moved into the greenhouse, room temperature to maintain more than 10 ℃. During the maintenance period in order to avoid a lot of leaves affect the light, can remove the outer leaves, which is also conducive to the flower stalks to extend. February - April is the full bloom period, after flowering gradually stop watering; May after the plant began to yellow, should pay attention to the ventilation and keep dry, in order to prevent rotting tubers. When the plant is completely dormant, the tubers can be removed, dried and stored, and then planted in the fall.
Cutting and preservation of cut flowers:
Cutting can be done when the spathe of calla lily has grown to its maximum length, curled and opened. After picking and cutting, the upper part of each cut flower is wrapped with cellophane, size grading, 10 branches in a bunch, boxed and marketed.
Horseshoe Lotus is poisonous, containing a large number of herbaceous calcium-cleaning crystals and alkaloids, accidental ingestion will cause drowsiness and other symptoms of poisoning.