The best woody plants can grow flowers better than green pineapple. They can blossom in four seasons and make bonsai.

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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. 1082" takes you to know a kind of woody plant that is easy to raise.

On a hot summer day, most of the succulent plants and herbs raised at home have begun to "die", opening the stage of "difficulty in summer". Summer is not a good season for growing flowers. Now, most flower friends will choose green pineapple, hanging orchid and these tenacious "lazybones green plants". Today's introduction of this kind of flower, called pagoda tree, is not afraid of high temperature and heat, the hotter the weather, the more beautiful the flowers bloom, which is suitable for raising now.

Pagoda tree is a new type of indoor potted ornamental flowers and trees. It is a perennial evergreen woody plant of Verbenaceae. It is native to West Africa and has been very popular since it was introduced into China not long ago. Its flowers are very similar to the "pagoda candy" we ate when we were young, hence the name, the red Corolla protrudes from the white pagoda calyx, like a dragon spitting beads, also known as "dragon spitting beads", the name is auspicious, the flower shape is strange and beautiful.

Like other plants from the tropics, such as fragrant vine, orchid, triangle plum, etc., the pagoda tree has a very long flowering period. The plant blossoms all the year round in South China, even in the north and northeast, as long as it gives enough light in winter. flowers still bloom brilliantly, bloom diligently and tirelessly, known as the "flowering machine".

Pagoda tree has a strong ability to adapt to the environment, maintenance is super simple, do not choose soil, general garden soil can be planted, fertilizer requirements are not high, usually watering, it can flourish, flowers continue to bloom, super easy to raise, even easier to raise than green apple. Can also be like succulent plants, with branch cutting propagation, the survival rate is very high, a plant can be divided into several pots a year.

Pagoda trees have requirements for light, and although they can live in complete indoor conservation, they do not bloom much; they are not resistant to cold, and flower friends in the north have to move back indoors in winter. Pagoda trees grow vigorously, resistant to pruning, trimmed into bonsai trees, better ornamental value. Beautiful plant type, green leaves, red and white flowers, let it become the new darling of potted plants, introduced into our country not long, has entered thousands of families, widely praised.