Succulent plant-- Jixing Beauty

Jixing Beauty is a succulent plant of the genus Sedum of the family Sedum. The arid areas originating in West Asia and North Africa are mainly distributed in the south, middle and southeast of Asia minor. They like warm, dry and sunny environments, and are very suitable for decoration in sunny windowsills, balconies and rooms. It is also unique to be used as ground cover plants in areas with dry climates.

Ji Xing Beauty

Morphological features:

Ji Xing Mei is a perennial succulent plant with a height of 5-10 cm, with branched stems, inflated leaves, Obovate, 2 cm long, green, fleshy leaves, dark green, like jadeite dark green fleshy leaves are very bright and beautiful in the sun. Blooming in spring, the flowers are light pink and white.

Growth environment:

Jixing beauty is native to arid areas of West Asia and North Africa. Like warm, dry and sunny environment. More resistant to cold, afraid of dampness, resistant to drought. Suitable for fertile, loose and well-drained sandy loam. The suitable temperature for growth is 13-23 ℃, and the winter temperature is not lower than 5 ℃. Summer high temperature and strong light, appropriate shading, but shading time should not be too long, otherwise the stems and leaves are tender and easy to lodge. There can be plenty of sunshine in autumn. Watering in the spring and autumn growing season is "dry and thoroughly", keep the basin soil moderately dry between the two watering, and control watering during the high-temperature dormant period in winter and summer.

Ji Xing Beauty

Main values:

Ji Xing beauty is very suitable to be placed in sunny windowsill, balcony and bedroom as embellishment. It is also unique to be used as a ground cover plant in areas with a dry climate.

It should be noted that the serous plants of Sedum family do not have the functions of anti-radiation and anti-formaldehyde.

Methods of reproduction:

Commonly used sowing, leaf cutting, cutting and ramet propagation.

Sowing: from February to May, indoor pot sowing was used, the optimum temperature for germination was 18-21 ℃, and germinated 12-15 days after sowing.

Cutting: can be carried out all year round, easy to survive, spring and autumn is better, cut the top leaves of compact short branches, length 5-7 cm, inserted into the sand bed, cut soil to keep slightly moist, 10-12 days after rooting. It can also be inserted in one leaf, and the mature and fleshy leaves are scattered on the sand bed and sprayed with water several times. after a few weeks, they take root from the base of the leaves and grow young plants.

Ji Xing Beauty

Cultivation techniques:

Cultivation and management

When changing the basin in spring, add a mixture of fertile garden soil and coarse sand, and add a small amount of rotten leaf soil and bone powder. At the same time, the stems and leaves should be pruned properly, the fresh potted plants should not be watered more, and the growth period should be fertilized once a month, but the application amount should be controlled, too much nitrogen fertilizer will cause elongation of internodes, leaf evacuation and poor posture.

When high temperature and strong light in summer, the fleshy leaves are bright green, but the shading time should not be too long, otherwise the stems and leaves are tender and easy to lodge. It is best to keep the room temperature at 10 ℃ in winter, reduce watering, keep the basin soil slightly dry, slow down the growth of Jixing beauty, and keep the stems and leaves compact and resistant. If the basin soil is too wet, the stems and leaves are easy to grow, and if they encounter low temperature, they will suffer frost damage and rot.

Pest control

Sometimes the harm of leaf spot and rust can be controlled by spraying 50% carbendan 800 times solution. Insect pests are harmful to aphids and shell insects, which are sprayed with 1500 times of 50% fenitrothion EC.