The most beautiful foliage plants do not lose alum roots with colorful embellishments and good maintenance.

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Green potted plants have become a necessary embellishment of home life. Raising some flowers and plants at home has many benefits, which can not only beautify the room, but also refresh the mood and nourish nature. "Huasheng potted Plant Diary No. 1072" will introduce you to a beautiful foliage plant.

Today's protagonist

When it comes to foliage plants, many people may first think of alum root, a plant whose leaf color changes all the year round, known as "God's palette". Indeed, alum root is very beautiful, but without a trace of gorgeous, the color is mainly dark. The plant introduced today, called Colored Leaf Grass, is taller, more colorful and more beautiful than the alum root.

Coloured leaf grass

Colourful leaf grass is a new type of foliage plant that has become popular in recent years. It is native to tropical Asia and belongs to Labiatae. Coleophora is a perennial erect or ascending herb with many varieties, membranous leaves, usually oval, large variability and many colors. It has yellow, dark red, purple and green, and has a good effect on garden and urban greening and beautification.

Beautiful plant type

Unlike alum root plants, which can only grow in a negative environment, coloured leaf grass plants are tall, compact and beautiful, more like trees than grass, it likes a growing environment with plenty of light, and the more abundant the light, the brighter the leaves. It is not only widely used in landscaping, but also can be planted in family as a small display of foliage flowers.

The blossoms are also beautiful.

Colourful leaf grass is usually used as a foliage plant, but in fact it also blossoms, and the flowers are also very beautiful, with terminal racemes, small, light blue or light purple flowers, abundant flowers, buds on almost every branch, beautiful flowers and leaves, leaves and flowers. The florescence is from July to October every year.

Potted goods

Colourful leaf grass has strong adaptability, pot planting does not choose soil, and maintenance is very easy. It can be propagated by sowing and cutting. The disadvantage is that it is not cold-resistant, and it is necessary to move back to indoor maintenance in winter in northern areas. In contrast, alum root is more suitable for courtyard cultivation, colored leaf grass is more suitable for indoor potted ornamental, placed on the table, coffee table and other places, colorful, as a new type of ornamental flowers and plants, or very eye-catching.