Pink flowers endless leaf back silver

Introduction to the author: one-hand brush and one-hand flowers: garden major, love plants and nature since childhood, look forward to always be engaged in plant-related work, only beautiful flowers and delicious food in the world can not be failed, Weibo @ one-hand brush and one-hand flowers

Rondeletia leucophylla, which belongs to Rubiaceae, is a new plant that I know this year.

Sometimes I have the feeling that once I know a plant, I can meet her everywhere. Yinye Lang Demu has a long flowering period and works hard to bloom tirelessly. Every time he sees her, he smiles brightly against the pink flowers, as if to say, "come and write about me!"

Yeah, well, I'll introduce you to everyone.

Silver leaf landerwood, native to Mexico, is cultivated in Guangxi, Guangdong and other places in China. Her leaves are slender and soft, called silver leaves, the leaves are not silver, that is, the back of the leaves is silver, as soon as it is opened, sure enough! If I had known her white-backed Lang Demu's name first, I would have turned the leaves more directly.

Sometimes I see her used as a ground plant, with a bit of the same family five-star flower (Pentas lanceolata) temperament, but she is not a "five-star", but a "four-star", flowers with four petals, Cymes terminal or axillary, rendering a ground powder.

The picture shows five-star flowers.

As a shrub, she is naturally not willing to do only the ground cover, she can grow taller than you in a minute. With stones and other plants, it is also a beautiful scenery, which is widely used in the flower border. Silver leaf landerwood is also a good honey plant, attracting bees and butterflies.

But this flower is a little bit potholed, her dry sepals pedicel will not fall off by itself, can stay in the branch for a few years will not fall off. The mixture of new flowers and old flowers affects beauty. How dense her flowers are today, how troublesome she is to trim them tomorrow. And when the seller is too lazy to trim and throw you a silver leaf tree full of withered flowers, the heart will be very broken.

Rondeletia odorata, of the same genus as Yinye Lang Demu, has orange-red flowers and summer blossoms. Let's see if I'm lucky. Will I have a chance to meet and write a sister article this year?

The pink flowers are endless, and the natural plants are endless. I hope I can always walk on the road of meeting new friends.

Author: one hand paintbrush, the other hand flower

Picture: one hand paintbrush, one hand flower, Jiang SB.

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