This kind of woody plant blossoms all the year round and is full of fragrance. It is a good ornamental for potted plants.

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Green potted plant is a necessary embellishment of home life, which can not only beautify the room, fresh air, but also refresh the mood and nourish nature. There are many advantages in raising flowers and plants at home. "Huasheng potted Plant Diary No. 923" takes you to know a kind of fragrant flower plant that is worth having.

Today's protagonist

When it comes to fragrant flowers, most people will think of sweet-scented osmanthus, jasmine, Qili incense, camellia and so on. Today, I would like to introduce to you a new type of ornamental plant which is suitable for family potted plants and has fragrant flowers. This flower is called "Michelia flower", woody plant, bracts such as jade, fragrant if orchid, beautiful flowers, very fragrant.

Smiley flower

Michelia mandshurica is a perennial evergreen shrub of Magnoliaceae, native to Lingnan, China, cultivated in the south of the Yangtze River basin, and mostly indoor potted in the north. Its flowers are peculiar, with the characteristics of "blooming but not letting go, seeming to laugh but not speaking". The poem says, "the flowers do not open their mouths, they are shy and bow their heads, like jade people laugh, and they flow affectionately and secretly." they are reserved and reserved, which is very much in line with the aesthetic values of the Chinese people.

The florescence is long and extremely fragrant.

Michelia florescence is very long, the company office planted a pot, blooming all the year round, a single bud for a month or two, potted plants in the north can also blossom repeatedly in many seasons. When the flowers bloom, it is really fragrant all over the room, the smell of flowers is like the taste of apples and bananas, very full-bodied and refreshing, so we also call it "banana flowers".

Easy to cultivate

Michelia is widely distributed in the south of the Yangtze River in China, and it has strong adaptability. It can be planted in the south, but it is no problem to spend the winter. In the north, it needs to move indoors. In the case of heating, it can also be raised in the northeast. Its vitality is strong, not hypocritical, it is easy to feed, potted plants require good drainage, fertile slightly acidic loam is better.

Potted goods

Michelia is a woody plant, growing vigorously, can be trimmed into bonsai trees, and pruned branches can continue to cut into pots, its flowering all the year round, very suitable for cultivation in the family balcony, workplace office, etc., when the flowers bloom, the room is full of fragrance, it is a natural air freshener, it is worth having.