Duckfoot wood, maybe you didn't know it had such a nickname

Another name for duck foot wood

Duck palm wood, goose palm wood, hand tree, leaflet umbrella tree, dwarf umbrella tree, Schaeffler wood.

The growth habit of Camellia oleifera

Duck foot wood prefers warm, moist and semi-sunny environment, and the optimum temperature for growth is 16-27 ℃. It is 21: 27 ℃ from March to September and 16: 21 ℃ from September to March of the following year. It can still grow normally under the condition of high temperature above 30 ℃. The winter temperature is not lower than 5 ℃. If the temperature is below 0 ℃, the plant will be frozen and the leaves will fall, but if the stem is intact, new leaves will sprout again in the following spring.

Duck feet like to be wet and afraid of dry. Under the condition of high air humidity and sufficient soil moisture, the stems and leaves grow luxuriantly. But too much water, resulting in waterlogging, will cause rotten roots.

Duck foot wood has a wide range of adaptation to light, and can grow in full sunshine, half-day or half-shade environment. But when the light is strong, the leaf color is lighter, and when the light is weak, the leaf color is dark green. The color of the variegated leaf species is more bright in the bright light.

The soil should be rich, loose and well-drained sandy loam. The family potted soil is a mixture of peat soil, rotten leaf soil and coarse sand.

The moral of duck foot wood

Natural and harmonious.