This potted plant is raised on the windowsill and looks like a flock of butterflies flying around the house.

The plant I would like to introduce to you is purple sorrel, and some people call it clover. Its leaves look like black, with purple markings in the center of the leaves, and sometimes they look like black butterflies, especially when there is a breeze blowing on the windowsill. It's like a flock of flying butterflies.

Elaeagnus angustifolia has a velvet-like appearance and looks very psychedelic. it is very simple to cultivate it. It is a fleshy plant with certain drought tolerance, and tubers grow at the bottom of the rhizoma. they continue to divide in the soil.

This kind of plant is very suitable for raising indoors, it has good shade tolerance, the demand for light is not too high, but it is sensitive to temperature, belongs to tropical plants, is afraid of cold, and should be kept indoors in a warm and humid environment all the year round. Too low temperature is easy to cause frostbite, if its tuber is frostbitten, it is difficult to survive.

The shape of purple leaf sorrel is very strange, the leaves all look triangular, three leaflets are combined into a large leaf, shaped a bit like a black butterfly, the flowers grow directly from the bottom of the rhizome, the color is usually lavender or pink, and so on.

Purple leaf sorrel as a common indoor potted plant, it should be kept in a semi-cool place, to avoid sun exposure or excessive direct sunlight, otherwise the leaves are easy to burn.

To cultivate leaf-planting grass, be sure to use well-drained soil. You can use compost soil mixed with pine leaf soil or rotten leaf soil to add perlite and sand properly, so as to ensure good drainage.

The potted purple leaf sorrel raised indoors does not need to be taken care of frequently, and it needs less water, as long as it is watered thoroughly after the potted soil is completely dry, and it needs less fertilizer. As long as some organic fertilizer is properly given as base fertilizer when planting, there is no need to supplement fertilizer in the later stage.

In the north, when the temperature is relatively cold, the leaves will continue to fall off, and eventually the plant will wither. don't throw it away at this time, as long as the tuber under its soil does not wither or rot, it can sprout and take root. what you need to do at this time is to stop watering, put it in a cool place, let it go dormant, cut off all the branches and leaves on the soil, and wait for the temperature to warm up. And water it properly.

The purple leaf sorrel is propagated by underground tubers, which can be dug up when the spring is warm, separate the tubers and roots, re-cultivate rice in the new soil, shade and ventilation, maintain a warm environment all the year round, and it can maintain the growth of the four seasons.

Some friends purple leaf sorrel in winter leaves grow very long, looks very ugly, the treatment is very simple, in the spring warm can be cut off the overgrown leaves, it can grow new leaves.

In addition, it should be noted that the maintenance of purple leaf grass indoors in winter should avoid excessive dryness of the air, maintain a certain degree of humidity control, and it is best to give appropriate scattered light and control watering, so as to avoid excessive growth of branches and leaves. Prevent infection with red spiders.

There is also a very interesting feature of Eleurotus angustifolia. In a dark environment or after dark, its leaves will hang down and close slowly, that is, it begins to go dormant at night, and when the light is bright during the day, its leaves will slowly stretch out.