Growth habits of Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata has a wide range of medicinal value and garden value, mainly used for astringent hemostasis, detumescence and muscle production. The flowers are purple, white, blue, yellow and pink, which can be watched indoors in potted plants, and can also be decorated in shady flower beds, flower borders or a corner of the courtyard, mainly distributed in China, Japan and northern Myanmar.

Growth habits of Bletilla striata

Bletilla prefers warm, damp environments, such as wild valleys and forests. It is slightly hardy and can be cultivated in the open field in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Strong negative tolerance, avoid strong light, leaves are easy to wither and yellow when high temperature and drought in summer. It is suitable for sandy loam with good drainage and high humus content.

Bletilla often grows in wetter stone walls and moss layers, often combined with shrubs, or in forest margins, grass, mountain springs, and under evergreen broad-leaved forests, trees or coniferous forests at an altitude of 3200 meters. Cultivated in Beijing and Tianjin. The stones grown in Bletilla striata are sandstone, so that Bletilla striata can absorb capillary water and absorb it firmly on it.

Distribution of producing area of Bletilla striata

Bletilla striata originated in China and is widely distributed in the provinces of the Yangtze River Basin. From southern Shaanxi, Lianyungang, Nantong, Nanjing, Jurong, Yixing, Liyang, Shanghai, southeastern Gansu, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Guizhou.

It is also distributed on the Korean Peninsula and Japan.