The flower ball is compact-- dog tooth flower

Dog tooth flower, also known as white dog tooth, lion flower, beancurd jelly. Apocynaceae shrubs, usually up to 3 m tall, glabrous except sepals ciliate; branches and branchlets gray-green, lenticellate, longitudinally lobed when dry; internodes 1.5-8 cm long. Leaves firm papery, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, base cuneate, 5.5-11.5 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide, leaf surface dark green, abaxially light green; Corolla white, Corolla tube to 2 cm long; stamens inserted below middle of Corolla tube; style 11 mm long, stigma obovoid. Follicles 2.5-7 cm long, divaricate or curved; seeds 3-6, oblong. Corolla double. The florescence is from June to November and the fruiting period is autumn.

Dog tooth flower

Gouya flower likes high temperature, humid environment, dense branches and leaves, compact plant type, clean and white flowers, elegant and simple, long florescence, suitable for hedgerows, flower diameter or large potted plants. Leaves can be used medicinally and have the efficacy of lowering blood pressure. it is said to be cool and antipyretic, diuresis and detumescence, treatment of ophthalmopathy, scabies, breast sores, epileptic dog bites and other diseases; roots can treat headaches and fractures.

Growth environment:

Like high temperature and humid environment. Cold resistance is low, in case of long-term 5muri 6 degrees Celsius low temperature, the plant is seriously damaged by freezing, below 0 degrees Celsius will freeze to death. Like half-shaded ground, it can grow well in full light. Like fertile, moist and well-drained acidic soil.

Dog tooth flower like warm and humid, not cold-resistant, should be semi-shady, like fertile acid soil with good drainage. Because the dog tooth flower leaves the room in April, the growth habit of changing the pot once in 1 or 12 years. So when changing the basin, we should add compound fertilizer or bean cake as base fertilizer, and prune the withered branches and weak branches, and then put them in a semi-shady place.

Dog tooth flower

Dog tooth flower usually to keep the soil moist, not dry should be watered, summer should often spray water around to increase the air humidity of the environment. This flower is good fertilizer, and the florescence is long. From May to September, it is appropriate to apply compound fertilizer and manure water alternately every 7-10 days. After entering the house at the end of October, the soil should be watered once every 5-7 days, and the soil should be slightly moist and keep a good light. The room temperature should be kept above 10 ℃, otherwise the leaves would turn yellow and fall off, and the branches below 0 ℃ would be frozen.

Cutting propagation:

The dog tooth flower can be propagated by cutting or high pressure, mainly by cutting. It can reproduce from spring to autumn in South China, but it is better in spring. Cut 15 cm long, 1 Mel-2-year-old twigs as cuttings, milk flow out of the wound, wash the juice first, and then insert it into the wet sand bed, shade or full light.

Dog tooth flower

Note:

1. It can be carried out in the greenhouse all year round, and the best outdoor cuttings are from June to July. Select annual healthy branches and cut the shoots 8-12 cm long, cut them into vermiculite, pay attention to moisturizing and shading, and take root in about two weeks.

two。 The dog tooth flower moved outside in April and changed the basin every 1-2 years. When changing the basin, it was necessary to add compound fertilizer or bean cake as the base fertilizer, trim the dead branches and weak branches, and then place them in a semi-shady place for maintenance.

3. The dog tooth flower likes the environment where there is plenty of light, so it should be placed in the place where there is sunlight to absorb the scattered light from the sun. Summer sun exposure, to be placed in a semi-shady place, so as not to burn the leaves.