Culture skills of winter coral

Winter coral

Winter coral, perennial woody plant, erect; its plant can reach 40 cm, smooth, leaves alternate, oblong; flowers white, fruit mature red, spherical, more than 1 cm in diameter. Sex is warm and sunny, not cold-resistant; the soil is required to be loose and fertile, good drainage, rich in phosphate fertilizer to look at fruit for a long time, potted plants should be heart-picked in order to promote more branches, flowers and fruits.

Small and medium-sized potted plants. The ripening period coincides with New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, which are displayed on several shelves in the hall and on the windowsill, which can increase the festive atmosphere.

1. Water: appropriate watering during the growing period, free from drought, watering twice a day in midsummer, beware of showers, otherwise it is easy to die of anthrax. Less watering after winter can prolong the fruit hanging period.

2. Fertilizer: appropriate amount of fertilizer, not too much, so as not to grow in vain.

3. Temperature: keep above 2 degrees in winter, and the suitable temperature for growth is 10-25 degrees. Frosts Descent needs to move indoors before to avoid freezing.

4, light: like the sun, do not need shade, need 4 hours of direct light every day, the room should be placed in a bright place.

Culture skills of winter coral

Winter coral

China Garden Network, June 15: winter coral, perennial woody plant, erect; its plant can reach 40 cm, smooth, leaves alternate, oblong; flowers white, fruit mature red, spherical, more than 1 cm in diameter. Sex is warm and sunny, not cold-resistant; the soil is required to be loose and fertile, good drainage, rich in phosphate fertilizer to look at fruit for a long time, potted plants should be heart-picked in order to promote more branches, flowers and fruits.

Small and medium-sized potted plants. The ripening period coincides with New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, which are displayed on several shelves in the hall and on the windowsill, which can increase the festive atmosphere.

1. Water: appropriate watering during the growing period, free from drought, watering twice a day in midsummer, beware of showers, otherwise it is easy to die of anthrax. Less watering after winter can prolong the fruit hanging period.

2. Fertilizer: appropriate amount of fertilizer, not too much, so as not to grow in vain.

3. Temperature: keep above 2 degrees in winter, and the suitable temperature for growth is 10-25 degrees. Frosts Descent needs to move indoors before to avoid freezing.

4, light: like the sun, do not need shade, need 4 hours of direct light every day, the room should be placed in a bright place.

Culture methods and matters needing attention of winter coral

Latin name Solanum pseudocapsicum L. Var. Diflorum (Vell.) Bitter

Don't call it coral cherry or Jiqingguo.

The plant kingdom.

Phylum angiosperm

Dicotyledonous class

Subclass synpetalous flower

Order Tubularia

Family Solanaceae

Family eggplant tribe

Genus Solanum

The distribution area is native to Europe and subtropics, but it is wild in Yunnan, China.

Winter coral, now known as coral bean (Solanum pseudocapsicum L. Var. Diflorum (Vell.) Bitter). Erect shrubs, much branched into clusters, cultivated for 1-2 years. The plant height is 30ml / 60cm. Leaves alternate, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate. Summer and autumn flowering, flowers small, white, axillary. Berries, dark orange-red, globose, 1 Mel 1.5 cm in diameter. After flowering, the fruit will not fall for a long time, but it can be retained on the branches until after the Spring Festival. Now there are dwarf species cultivated, and the plant shape is short and multi-branched. Berries, seeds small, fruit shaped in a wide ellipsoid, apical tip. Aliases are: coral cherry, Jiqing fruit, coral son, coral beans, jade coral, red coral, wild spicy eggplant, wild sea pepper, look cherry, four seasons fruit.

1. Morphological characteristics.

Coral beans (Beijing) Jade Coral (Japan); Pomegranate (Yixian County, Shaanxi Province); Yanghai Pepper (Leibo, Sichuan); Winter Coral (Anjiang, Hunan). (variant)

Erect branched shrubs, 0.3-1.5 m tall, branchlets branched tomentose when young, then gradually deciduous. Leaves twin, unequal in size, elliptic-lanceolate, 2-5 cm long or slightly long, 1-1.5 cm wide or slightly wide, apex obtuse or mucronate, base cuneate-decurrent into short stalk, leaf surface glabrous, leaves often dendritic tomentose along veins below, margin entire or slightly undulate, midrib protruding below, lateral veins 4-7 on each side, obvious below Petiole ca. 2-5 mm, dendritic tomentose when young, then gradually deciduous. Inflorescences short, axillary, usually 1-3-flowered, solitary or into scorpion tails, total pedicels short to nearly absent, pedicels ca. 5 mm, flowers small, ca. 8-10 mm in diam. Calyx green, 5-parted, lobes ovate-lanceolate, tip obtuse, ca. 5 mm long, Corolla white, tube concealed in calyx, ca. 1.5 mm long, limb about 6.5-8.5 mm long, 5-parted, lobes ovoid, ca. 4-6 mm long, ca. 4 mm wide, tip tip or obtuse; filaments ca. 1 mm long, anthers oblong, about 2 times as long as filaments, apical hole slightly inward Ovary suborbicular, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., style ca. 4-6 mm, stigma truncate. Berries solitary, globose, coral red or orange, 1-2 cm in diam.; seeds flattened, ca. 3 mm in diam. The flowering period is from April to July and the fruit ripening stage is from August to December.

2. Related species

Coral cherry (original variety)

Var. Pseudo-capsicum

Erect branched shrubs, up to 2 m tall, smooth glabrous throughout. Leaves alternate, narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 1-6 cm long and 0.5-1.5 cm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base narrowly cuneate extending into petiole, margin entire or undulate, both surfaces smooth glabrous, midvein protruding below, lateral veins 6-7 pairs, more obvious below; petiole ca. 2-5 mm, cannot be completely separated from leaf blade. Flowers solitary, rarely caudate, without peduncle or nearly without peduncle, extraaxillary or subopposite leaf, pedicel ca. 3-4 mm; flowers small, white, ca. 0.8-1 cm in diam.; calyx green, ca. 4 mm in diam., 5-lobed, lobes ca. 1.5 mm long; Corolla tube concealed in calyx, less than 1 mm long, limb ca. 5 mm long, lobes 5, ovate, ca. 3.5 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide Filaments less than 1 mm long, anthers yellow, rectangular orbicular, ca. 2 mm; ovary suborbicular, ca. 1 mm in diam., style short, ca. 2 mm, stigma truncate. Berries orange-red, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, calyx persistent, petiole ca. 1 cm long, tip dilated. Seeds discoid, flattened, ca. 2-3 mm in diam. Flowering in early summer and fruiting in late autumn.

3. Growth habits

Especially found in the field side, roadside, jungle or ditch edge, 1350-2800 meters above sea level is common, 600m area also has distribution.

Winter corals like sunshine, warmth and high temperature resistance, and there is no sunburn above 35 ℃. Not resistant to shade, cold, drought, hot summer afraid of rain, waterlogging. It is not strict with the soil, but it grows vigorously on the slightly acidic or neutral soil with loose fertility and good drainage. It's very cute. Not cold-resistant, pot plants in the north need to go to the greenhouse to survive the winter.