Succulent plant-- pink red cross star brocade

Pink Red Cross star brocade is a variety of cross star brocade, which belongs to crassulaceae. It is named because its leaves are surrounded by pink. It is a perennial succulent herb from Cape Town, South Africa, with tufted plants, branched stems and fleshy stems. The stem will gradually become semi-woody after a long time.

The fleshy leaves are grayish green to light green, the leaves are yellow or red on both sides, there are green spots on the leaf surface, and the leaf edge temperature difference is slightly red, especially in late autumn and early spring, when the temperature difference is large, so winter is the most beautiful time of cross star brocade. The leaves of the plant are alternately opposite, ovate-triangular, without petiole, the base is connected, the new leaves are overlapped up and down, and there is a little interval between the adult leaves. The flower is beige and blooms from April to June.

Pink Red Cross Star brocade

Pink Red Cross Star brocade needs plenty of sunshine and cool, dry environment, resistant to semi-overcast, afraid of waterlogging, avoid muggy and humid. It has the habit of growing in cool season and dormant at high temperature in summer. The period from September to June of the second year is the growing period of the plant (the environment of the flower friend is different, and the growing period is also short). If the light is not enough, the plant will grow too long, and the distance between leaves and leaves will be lengthened, so that the plant type will be loose, the pink of the leaf edge will also decrease, and the leaf stem will become tender, and the brocade in summer is not very obvious; while the plant growing in the sunny place, the plant type is short and strong, and the arrangement between stem nodes is relatively compact.

Pink Red Cross Star brocade

Methods of reproduction:

Pink Red Cross brocade reproduction is generally decapitation (cutting, ramet), take healthy branches with growing points, cut according to a section about 3 to 5 centimeters high, dry the wound cuttage, or directly cut in the dry granular soil, a few days later a small amount of water supply, cross star brocade is a very good breeding variety, leaves and leaves are easy to grow a lot of small roots. When it comes to the right soil, it will take root firmly in the soil. Another advantage of beheading reproduction is that it can give the mother plant a better shape. Willing flower friends can give it a try. After beheading, new growing points will sprout again, and some will sprout two branches. If you cut off your head more times, the plant will show an inverted cone. Top-heavy, this is the time to use things to support.

Pink Red Cross Star brocade

Cultivation techniques:

During the growing period, the pink red cross star brocade should keep the soil moist and avoid stagnant water. Soil kites use cinder mixed with peat, a small amount of perlite, the proportion of about 5:4:1, the soil surface covered with small stones. The cross star brocade can withstand the low temperature of about minus 2 ℃, which is the indoor temperature. If it is not in the open air, the top growth point of the lower leaf will appear frostbite, dry up and die, and new side branches will sprout again in the withered place in the coming year. The water is basically cut off throughout the winter, and the water will begin to be cut off slowly below 5 degrees. When the summer high temperature, the whole plant growth is slow or completely stopped, at this time to be well ventilated and properly shaded, avoid exposure, control watering, not long-term rain, so as to avoid plant rot. Cross star brocade needs to be pruned frequently in the process of culture, cutting off disorderly branches in order to maintain the beautiful shape of the plant.