Is the thermophilic plant colourful leaf grass poisonous? How to maintain it?

Colorful leaf grass is a kind of flower seen more in daily life, which has bright colors, many varieties and easy reproduction. As a widely used foliage flower, it can not only be used as a small foliage flower display, but also can be equipped with a pattern flower bed. It can also be used as a flower basket and bouquet with leaves. Is the coloured leaf grass poisonous? How to maintain it?

First, the introduction of colored leaf grass

1. Families and genera: Colored leaf grass is a labiate family, and the pistil flower is an erect or ascending herb.

2. Shape: stem is usually purple, leaf blade is membranous, its variation is great, usually ovoid, apex obtuse to short acuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin crenate serrated or crenate, various colors, yellow, dark red, purple and green, Cymes many flowered, flowers mostly densely arranged, pedicels and rachis puberulent Bracts broadly ovoid, calyx campanulate, calyx limb 2-lipped, middle lobe broadly ovoid, lateral lobes short, ovoid, Corolla light purple to purple or blue, Corolla tube suddenly bent, Corolla 2-lipped, filaments connate below the middle to form a sheath.

3. Flower pattern and florescence: the style exceeds the stamens, expands in front of the disk, and blossoms in July.

Second, is the thermophilic plant colourful grass poisonous?

Colourful leaf grass is not poisonous. Not all beautiful flowers and plants are poisonous. Coloured leaf grass belongs to the genus Labiatae, which is generally non-toxic. Not only that, some varieties such as perilla and peppermint can even be eaten!

Warm reminder: generally speaking, even poisonous plants will only be poisoned when they are eaten, and when we breed colored leaf grass, we will not eat it, so we can rest assured that we can plant colored leaf grass.

Third, how to maintain the colored leaf grass?

1. Soil requirements

Potted colored leaf grass requires sandy culture soil rich in humus, loose and fertile, good drainage and air permeability.

2. Lighting conditions

When the light is soft and sufficient, the leaf color is bright and obvious, but the leaf surface is rough and loses glossiness due to the strong light in the clear sky in midsummer. And in the shady environment, the leaf color is not bright.

3. Points for attention in watering

The water demand of colourful leaf grass is to keep the basin soil and environment moist and moderate, avoid drought and prevent waterlogging, so as to avoid dehydration and discoloration of leaves and soft rot of roots.

4. Temperature condition

The color leaf grass likes the environmental conditions of warm and humid climate and fresh air, the suitable indoor temperature in winter is 20 ℃ to 25 ℃, the lowest overwintering temperature can not be lower than 10 ℃, the leaves turn yellow and fall off when the temperature is too low, and the plants below 5 ℃ die.

5. Fertilization skills

Colourful leaf grass does not have high requirements for fertilizer, and rarefied fertilizer based on nitrogen fertilizer is applied 1-2 times a month in the growing season.

6. Proper pruning

The color leaf grass should pick the heart many times in the seedling stage, in order to promote the lateral branch and make its plant shape full. After flowering, 2-3 nodes of the lower branches can be retained, the rest can be cut off and new branches can be reissued.

7. Pest control

Colourful leaf grass is most vulnerable to aphids, which hide on the leaves and absorb tender juice, causing leaves to curl or even wither, so it is necessary to control aphids in time when aphids occur. In order to reduce pollution, plant pesticides can be used for control. The method is to take a certain amount of Platycladus orientalis leaves, add 4-5 times water dilution, spray the damaged plants, generally after 3-5 times spraying can achieve the purpose of killing pests.