What kind of plant is thick skin?

Thick skin is a very chic plant, and many people think that this name is strange. In fact, thick skin is a small evergreen shrub in the family crassulaceae. It is also known as swallow palm, jade tree, immortality, falling to the ground and leaves to take root, etc., and thick skin is just a common name for it, belonging to a kind of succulent plant, with high ornamental value.

Thick skin is a perennial fleshy herb, 40-150 cm high. Stem erect, much branched, glabrous, with conspicuous, upper purplish red, densely elliptic lenticels, lower sometimes slightly Lignification. Leaves opposite, simple or pinnately compound, compound leaves with 3-5 leaflets. Leaves two purple, 2.5 × 5 cm long, base broadly flat, semi-clasping. The leaf is fleshy, oval or long oval, 6 cm long and 3 cm wide, the apex is obtuse, the edge is crenulate, the bottom of the crenate is easy to sprout, and a new plant is formed when it falls to the ground.

Inflorescences of thick-skinned panicles borne, flowers large, bisexual, pendulous. Bracts two, leaf-like. Flower guide campanulate, membranous, inflated, 2.5 × 4 cm long, light green or yellowish white. Corolla tubular, 3-4.5 cm long, reddish or purplish red, base dilated globose, middle contracted, apex 4-lobed, lobes protruding from calyx tube. Stamens inserted at the base of Corolla tube, connate with Corolla tube, filaments long, anthers purple. Follicles, enclosed in calyx and Corolla. Seeds small, numerous, striate. The flowering period is from March to May and the fruiting period is from April to June.

Thick-skinned origin is in South Africa, relatively drought-resistant, but not cold-resistant, for the warm and sunny environment is very fond of, at the same time, it can also live in the semi-shady environment, the winter temperature and environment can not be lower than 6 ℃. It is often grown on the moist grasslands along hillsides and ditches, and is often cultivated in greenhouses and gardens. China is mainly distributed in Fujian, Taiwan, southern Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places.

The thick-skinned whole herb is used in medicine, which has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing heat and detoxification, mainly treating traumatic bleeding, falling injury, eczema carbuncle, breast carbuncle, milk rock, erysipelas, ulcer, scald, stomachache, joint pain, sore throat, lung heat cough and so on. Take decoction for internal use, fresh whole grass 30g to 60g, root 3g to 6g, or strangled juice, external application with appropriate amount of tamping or hanging juice for powder research, or tamping juice gargle, pay attention to those who are cold due to deficiency of spleen and stomach.

Thick skin is the most common succulent plant, cultivated for ornamental use, its leaves are thick and succulent, the edges grow neat and beautiful adventitious buds, like a group of small butterflies, fly to the ground, immediately take root and breed future generations, quite interesting, potted is a good material for windowsill greening, decorating the study and guest room is also elegant and interesting.