If this potted green plant is super shade-tolerant cuttings, it can blossom all the year round and keep flowers and leaves beautiful indoors.

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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. 1102 takes you to know one of the best indoor plants.

Today's protagonist

All things can not grow without sunlight, although many plants are shade-tolerant and can be maintained indoors, but they basically do not blossom and can only watch the leaves, such as green turnips and orchids. This kind of flower introduced in this issue, called hairy grass, is a new type of potted ornamental plant, which likes scattered light and can bear shade. It blossoms continuously in the four seasons, beautiful and easy to raise, so it is worth starting with.

Hairy grass

Hairy grass is what we call it here, because there are fine villi on leaves and flowers, the leaves are ovate opposite, slightly fleshy, the leaves are dark green, the back of the leaves are light green, the branches and leaves are luxuriant and evergreen, and it is an excellent foliage plant. The flowers of Mao Zicao are very strange, and the red Corolla protrudes from the dark red calyx, just like the "lipstick" spun out of the tube, so it is also called lipstick flower, lipstick hanging orchid and so on.

Peculiar flower pattern

In the natural state, hairy grass generally blossoms from spring to autumn, ornamental in indoor potted plants, give sufficient light, can blossom all the year round, irregular, ornamental period is very long. Its peculiar pattern, with bright green leaves, safflower with green leaves, suitable for display in the living room, or hanging from the balcony, the effect of embellishment is very good, the introduction of our country is not long, has been all over the provinces and cities.

Cuttings can live.

Hairy grass vitality is very strong, strong reproductive ability, easy to maintain, can be like succulent plants, with branch cutting propagation, can also be leaf cutting (but grow slowly, generally use cutting), the survival rate is very high. The specific operation is as follows: take mature branches, leave 3-5 leaves, insert them into water to take root, root and transplant in about 7-15 days, a large seedling can be divided into many pots in a year.

The flowers and leaves are beautiful.

Mao Zicao is very shade-tolerant and can live well in complete indoor conditions, but if you want it to blossom, you should give it some light, not exposure, preferably in the morning and twilight, and do not require much light. The disadvantage is that it is not hardy. In our country, only South China can plant it for the winter, while the north can only watch it as an indoor potted plant. If we put it indoors in winter, it will blossom if there is enough heat or light. It is worth having.