Alias: Tiger blue orchid
Latin name: Haemanthusalbiflos
Section name: Liliaceae
Genus:Tirania
Adaptation Area: Native South Africa
Watch Category: Flower
Morphological characteristics:
For the Amaryllidaceae perennial evergreen herb. Up to 80-90 cm, flat spherical bulbs, about 7 cm in diameter. The leaves are drawn from short stems above the bulbs, 3-6 pieces. The upper part of the stems are often gathered, elliptic to oblong, up to 30 cm long. The stems are 30-90 cm tall, with the first leaves purplish and green with purplish spots. Its leaves are thick, fleshy, and are extracted from short stems above bulbs. Umbrellas are topped, flowers are white, and leaves are 2 to 4 pieces. The leaves are broad-brown and the anthers are yellow.
Umbrella umbellate terminal, flower diameter of about 15 cm, 30-100 flowers, blood red, flowering from May to June.
Growth habits:
Sexual warmth, moist and semi-negative conditions require slightly acidic sandy loam or peat soil.
Cold resistance is poor, summer should be half-yin, winter overwintering temperature must not be less than 5 °C.
Hi well-drained sandy loam soil. Not cold, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River must be cultivated indoors, and winter bulbs enter dormancy.
Breeding:
Commonly used ball and sowing breeding. The branching is carried out in the spring, and the bulbs have poor ability to form the sub-balls. It takes 2-3 years for the ball to reproduce. Seeding propagation, using potting, sowing 2 weeks after sowing, seedling growth rate is slow, need to cultivate 4-5 years before flowering.
Cultivation:
Each spring planting, basin soil requires loose fertility, fertilization and leaf development period of fertigation once every ten days, when the summer light is too strong, put a half shade maintenance. Cooling in summer flowering season can extend flowering period. In autumn, the flakes begin to yellow and reduce watering. The bulbs enter dormancy. Watering should be stopped, the soil should be kept dry and the bulbs should be dug up and stored indoors.
Pests and diseases:
Pendulum soil is too wet, and nematodes and fleas are more likely to occur in bulbs. The bulbs can be soaked in 0.5% formalin for 3 hours and sprayed with 3% lime water.
application:
Tennis balls are bright and colorful, with red, white and bright red. Flowers are intensive and shot like a ball. It is a common indoor potted ornamental open flower.
The outdoor clusters of the south are arranged in patches and the flowering landscape is unique.
In addition, tennis balls can also be used as medicine.
Drug Name: Tennis Flower
Pinyin: WANGQIUHUA
source:
Bulbs of tennis flower for Amaryllidaceae.
Efficacy: swelling and pain.
Indications:
Bloated, swollen, swollen, unknown swelling and other drugs.
Tropism of taste: Xin, cool. Into the lungs, spleen two classics.
Dosage:
Oral: Decoction serving, 9-20 grams. External use: Jianshui wash swollen poison local.
Alias:
Tiger ear orchid ("seed plant directory")
Animal and plant resources distribution:
Native non-state tropical, introduced and cultivated in China.
Latin name:
HaemanthusmultiflovusMartyn
research:
It was first published in the "List of Seed Plants."
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