Guide to the maintenance of Michelia bonsai

Michelia mollissima is an evergreen shrub with bright green leaves and banana flavor. When it blossoms, it is half-open and drooping, both shy and seemingly smiling, attracting love and pity. Michelia mandshurica is native to the provinces and regions of southern China. It is wild in Dinghushan, Guangdong, and is born in the forest of mixed trees on the shady slope. The picture shows a pot of Michelia mollissima.

1. Environmental protection effect

Michelia can absorb chlorine, flowers emit volatile aromatic oil, can play an inhibitory role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, pneumococci [Jishan Huayao].

two. Maintenance guide

(1) Lighting Michelia prefers semi-shade to be afraid of strong light exposure, likes warm and humid climate, and is more hardy. Indoor potted plants can be placed in bright areas with more scattered light. Summer should be properly shaded to avoid direct glare.

(2) the room temperature should be kept at 5-15 ℃ in winter, and it is easy to suffer frost damage if the temperature is too low. After suffering from cold, you can cover the basin with plastic bags and put it in the indoor sunny area for maintenance.

(3) watering should keep the basin soil moist at ordinary times, but should never be too wet. Because its roots are mostly fleshy, such as watering too much or basin waterlogging after rain will cause rotten roots, so we should pay attention to control humidity in rainy season.

(4) fertilization means that Michelia likes fertilizer, apply fertilizer every 15 days or so in the growing season (April-September), stop fertilization during flowering and after October. If you find that the leaf color is not bright and thick green, you can apply fertilizer and water for once.

(5) the soil Michelia prefers deep and fertile slightly acidic soil. The pot soil was mixed with 6 parts of rotten leaf soil, 2 parts of garden soil and 2 parts of yellow sand to prepare culture soil.

(6) Cuttage and striping are commonly used to propagate Michelia mollissima.

① cuttage. After flower fade, soft wood cuttings were carried out, 8-10cm long branches were cut, the upper leaves were left, and inserted into the basin soil to keep the basin soil moist and shaded, and rooting about 4 months after planting.

② striping. High-altitude pressing was carried out in the rainy season, and it took about 2 months to take root.

② striping. Michelia is indoor medium-and small-sized potted flowers and trees, suitable for display in the living room and toilet.