Luo Fengyu, about its resume

Morphological characteristics of Jade Fengyu

Planetary genera. The plant is globose, and the old plant becomes slender and cylindrical. The sphere is 10-20 cm in diameter and has 3-9 distinct edges, most of which are 5-sided. The thorn seat on the rib is unarmed, but has brown woolly hair. The sphere is gray-white densely covered with white stellate hairs or scales. The flower is planted on the thorn seat at the top of the sphere, funnel-shaped, yellow or with hearts. Trigonous "triangulated Phoenix jade" is rare and valuable, while four-rowed "Sijiao Fengyu" is also known as square jade, with four broad edges evenly symmetrical and interesting.

The plant is solitary, initially globose, then grows into a cylinder, 16-18 cm in diameter.

It is as high as 50-60 cm, with 5 high ridges, the sphere is symmetrical five-star, and the large ball can be increased to 6-8 edges. The gray-green sphere is densely covered with tiny white stars. Terminal funnel-shaped orange-yellow flowers from spring to summer, 4-5 cm in diameter.

The growing environment of Fengyu

Originally from Mexico. Like cold, sunny environment, summer should also have plenty of light. Sandy soil that is well drained and rich in calcareous matter.

The Variety Classification of Fengyu

Fengyu is a famous representative species of the genus Cactaceae, which is native to Texas in the United States. Fengyu can be crossed among genera, and there are many variation types of the original species. Some countries have done a lot of work on the breeding of these two varieties, such as "Chaodou, Yamamoto Dou, Turtle Shell Dou, Garden Dou" selected by Japan, "Enzuka Fengyu, Hongye Fengyu" and so on. China's breeding of "Dou Jin, Bi Fangyu" and so on.

The main value of Jade Fengyu

Thus it can be seen that its horticultural value is higher, and its ornamental value is also higher. It is a treasure that botanical gardens and succulent plant lovers are keen to collect. Because the reproduction coefficient of this kind of plant is very low and its variability is large, it is not easy to preserve all kinds of horticultural varieties. The method of tissue culture may be an effective way to solve the propagation and germplasm conservation of various horticultural varieties of Planet and Fengyu, and it also has the significance of protecting endangered plants. There is no report of successful tissue culture of this plant at home and abroad.