Diaozhumei has such characteristics.

Another name for Diaozhumei

Phyllostachys pubescens, also known as Phyllostachys pubescens, Rabdosia angustifolia, Caryophyllaceae, Prunus officinalis, perennial herbaceous foliage plants. The stem is soft, weak and brittle, and the creeping ground grows in vines.

It is called hanging bamboo plum because its leaves are shaped like bamboo and are often hung indoors with potted plants to watch its scattered and drooping stems and leaves.

Morphological characteristics of Phyllostachys pubescens

Diaozhumei is a perennial herb, the stem is slightly weak, green and drooping, semi-fleshy.

Branches of hanging bamboo plum, rooting at nodes; usually oblong, scattered or overhanging, ca. 1 m long.

The leaves of Phyllostachys pubescens are sessile, oval in shape to rectangular in shape, 3-7 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide, apex mucronate, purple-green and silver-white above, purple stripes on the middle edge, purplish red below, and the top and base of the sheath or all are sparsely hairy.

Florets white axillary, flowers agglomerated in a large and small terminal bract-like leaves, sepals 3, connate into a cylindrical tube, ca. 6 mm, Corolla tube white, slender, ca. 1 cm, lobes 3, rose, ca. 3 mm, stamens 6; ovary 3-loculed.

The fruit of hanging bamboo and plum is a capsule and its florescence is uncertain.

The function and value of Diaozhumei

Hanging bamboo plum is often used as a small potted ornamental.

Because the hanging bamboo plum grows rapidly, it can cover the whole basin in one year, the branches and leaves are creeping and hanging, and the leaves are purple, green and silver, dazzling. Put it on a few high shelves, let it droop naturally at the top of the cabinet, and you can also enjoy the hanging basin. Or arranged above the windowsill to make it droop to form a green curtain.

Courtyard cultivation is often used for overall layout. Plant flowers and leaves can sometimes turn into green leaves, at this time, should be removed in time, so as to avoid the whole plant leaves turn green.

In addition, hanging bamboo plum can also be used in medicine, also known as Phyllostachys pubescens, Phyllostachys pubescens, purple back duckfoot grass, with heat-clearing and detoxification, cooling blood to stop bleeding, diuretic function.

The Flower language of Diaozhumei

The flower language of Diaozhumei is simple, pure, elegant, naive, hopeful and quiet. Dancing in the air of the elves, at peace with the world, they are pure and naive.