Is bayberry deciduous or evergreen?

Red bayberry, also known as Shengsheng plum, white plum, tree plum, has high edible and medicinal value, and its trees can also be used as landscaping tree species. Is it deciduous or evergreen? What are the planting methods?

Is red bayberry deciduous or evergreen?

Bayberry is an evergreen tree with a height of more than 15 meters. The bark is gray and longitudinally lobed when old. The crown is round. Branchlets and buds glabrous, lenticels usually few but inconspicuous, only round and peltate glands when young. It blossoms in April every year and bears crimson or fuchsia fruit from June to July.

Second, what are the planting methods of bayberry?

1. Choose a place to build a garden

Choose the north or northeast slope with plenty of light and high temperature. Sandy soil is the best, followed by sand clay, followed by clayey soil. When building the garden, land preparation should be carried out, and generally the methods of building contour terraces, contour trenches and fish-scale pits should be used for land preparation.

two。 Timely planting

In places with frost injury in winter, such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan and Jiangxi, spring planting should be adopted, that is, from late February to mid-March. In warm areas where there is no severe cold in winter, autumn planting or spring planting can be used, that is, from early October to early December, or from mid-February to mid-March. Colonization should be carried out on cloudy or light rainy days. Special attention should be paid to not planting in northwesterly weather.

3. Reasonable density

The strong seedlings with pure variety, good healing of rootstock and scion, developed root system, fresh and strong seedlings and no diseases and insect pests were selected for planting. When 15-40 bayberry plants are planted per 667m2, the seedlings are about 20cm higher than the ground. After planting, you should pour enough water to fix the root. After watering, cover a layer of loose soil and cover with plastic film.

4. Shaping and pruning

The tree shape of bayberry is mostly in the form of natural head. Because the apical buds of Waxberry and its nearby 1mur4 buds can grow into backbone branches or lateral branches, the growth potential of the first shoot is very strong, and most of the lower buds are hidden buds, so the crown branches are very regular. During the shaping of young trees, they can take shape in 5-6 years as long as they are slightly pruned. After forming, withered branches, disease and insect branches, damaged branches, useless sprouting and cluttered branches on roots and stems were removed in spring (April) and autumn (August-September), while others were not pruned. Shoot regeneration should be carried out in combination with fertilization for aging trees.

5. Thinning flowers and fruits

In general, in the middle of February to March, for the big trees with excessive flower bud differentiation, the whole tree is uniformly truncated by 1 beat, 5-2 and 5 fruit-bearing branches, and thin and dense fruit-bearing branches are removed, and 0.5-1.0 kg of available nitrogen such as urea is applied to each tree to promote vegetative branches. The fruit thinning period is divided into 2-3 times. The first time was about 20 days after flowering, and the second was 30-35 days after flowering.

6. Pest control

Cancer, brown spot, dry blight, scale, fruit fly and moth are common diseases and insect pests during the planting period of red bayberry. Growers should take precautions in advance.