The most beautiful cactus blossoms like a peacock. Lotus conservation is easy to start with.

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Green potted plant is a necessary embellishment of home life, which can not only beautify the room, but also refresh the mood and nourish nature. There are many advantages in raising flowers and plants at home. "Huasheng potted Diary No. 1055" will introduce you to a beautiful cactus.

Today's protagonist

In your impression, the cactus is always bare, with thorns and rarely blossoms, isn't it right? In fact, there are many cactus plants, and there are still many varieties that will bloom, such as the famous "flash in the pan" epiphyllum, which is a kind of cactus, but it only blooms once a year for only a few hours at a time, as if fleeting. The above flower, called the arrow lotus, is more beautiful and blossoms diligently.

Make the arrow lotus

Make arrow lotus, and epiphyllum is a sister, also known as false epiphyllum, the two flowers are very similar, often confused. Make the arrow lotus more colorful, there are purple, bright red, pink, magenta, yellow, white, blue and purple, large and medium-sized flowers, from the stem node on both sides of the thorn seat, trumpet-shaped, perianth double or compound petals, petals neatly arranged, like a peacock screen, like a lotus, hence the name, also known as peacock orchid.

Summer flowering

Make the arrow lotus blossom in summer, blossom during the day and close at night (as opposed to epiphyllum and dragon fruit). A flower blossoms for only a few days, but it has a large number of flowers, and adult plants can bloom several arrows at a time. Its flowers are delicate and light, colorful, but also send out a melancholy aroma, ornamental value is not inferior to the lotus. These days to see a lot of friends in the sun, very pleasing to the eye.

Easy to maintain

The arrow lotus is a cactus with extremely strong vitality and can be grown in barren and nutrient-scarce soil. Drought tolerance is essentially a succulent plant (succulent plant). Its leaves are thick and store water, and it is no problem to water it once every ten days and half a month. The disadvantage is that it is not hardy. Except for South China, all parts of China have to spend winter indoors in winter, so China thinks potted plants are the main thing.

It's worth starting.

Another disadvantage is that the arrow lotus, like the crab claw orchid, grows slowly and often needs to be grafted on other cacti to get faster growth. After grafting, the flowers, with rootstocks to provide nutrients, grow faster and blossom more and earlier. When different varieties of flowers are grafted on the same rootstock, there will be colorful flowers. Grafting is very simple, the survival rate is very high, it is worth getting flowers.