Distribution area and growth habits of Cymbidium chinense

Another name for Qilixiang

Stone chili, Jiuqiu incense, Jiushu incense, Jiuli incense, Qianli incense, Wanli incense, cross-mountain incense, golden cinnamon, mountain yellow peel, thousand eyes, moon orange and so on.

The living habits of Qilixiang

Qilixiang likes to be warm, and the most suitable temperature for growth is 20: 32 ℃, which is not resistant to cold. In winter, when the lowest temperature drops to about 5 ℃, it moves into the room with low temperature (5: 10 ℃) to survive the winter, and prematurely is not conducive to exercise its cold tolerance. If the room temperature is too low, it is easy to lose leaves and affect the growth of the following year. If the temperature is less than 0 ℃, the plant may freeze to death, but if the room temperature is too high, the plant can not dormant well, or even sprout indoors. When it comes out of the room, the cold wind blows, the bud retracts, and the new bud emerges again, which affects the growth of the same year.

Qili incense is a positive tree species, which should be placed in a place with plenty of sunshine and good ventilation (you can see direct light for at least five or six hours a day) in order to have luxuriant leaves and fragrant flowers. Flowering can be moved to the windowsill, full of fragrance, flowers still need to be placed in sufficient sunshine, growing in the semi-shade is not as strong as the sunny place, the fragrance of the flowers is also weak, too shady, the branches are soft, the leaves are light, the flowers are few or no flowers. Winter entry should also be kept in a sunny place.

The Flower language of Qilixiang

The fragrant flowers in Qili are small and luxuriant, and they are very fragrant in white. Every blooming season, fragrance is everywhere, people are easily attracted by the intoxicating scent of flowers, so the flower language of Qilixiang is: captive of love.

The application value of Qili incense

Qili incense is famous for its fragrance, full-bodied flowers, very attractive, beautiful branches and leaves, white and luxuriant flowers, high ornamental value, and can also be made into bonsai.

The flowers, leaves and fruits of Qili incense all contain essential oils, with an oil yield of 0.25%. Essential oils can be used in cosmetic flavors and food flavors; leaves can be used as seasoning spices.

Branches and leaves are used in medicine, which can relieve pain, activate blood circulation and disperse blood stasis, can treat stomachache, rheumatism arthralgia, external use can treat toothache, falling swelling pain, insect snake bite and so on. In addition, it is also used as a strengthening agent, stomach tonic and so on in medicine.