The best woody plant cuttings can blossom for many seasons and have high ornamental value to make bonsai.

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Green potted plants are necessary embellishments of home life. Raising some flowers and plants at home has many benefits, which can not only beautify the room, but also please the mood. "Huasheng potted Plant Diary No. 1221" takes you to know a kind of woody flower that is super easy to raise.

Today's protagonist

Living in Lingnan, adjacent to the "Flower City" Guangzhou, I often patronize the "Lingnan Flower Market", the largest wholesale flower market in Asia. I like all kinds of strange flowers and plants, such as green orchid succulent plants. Today's introduction of this plant, called Jiulong Tuzhu, a new type of potted ornamental flowers and trees that is very popular in recent years, is often out of stock in the local wholesale market for dozens of yuan a pot.

Kowloon spit beads

Jiulong Tuzhu, a veritable woody flower, is a veritable woody flower, not herbaceous. Planted in South China, it can grow to more than 3 meters high, and the flowers are also very strange. The whole flower is like the shape of the pagoda sugar we ate when we were children. The upper part of the red Corolla, like a bead, slowly grows from the lower half of the white petals. The process is like "dragon spitting beads", hence the name, the leaves are emerald green, evergreen, flowers and leaves are all beautiful. The ornamental value is very high.

The florescence is very long.

Jiulong Tuzhu is native to western Africa. Like other plants from the tropics, such as Fusang, it blossoms very diligently. Naturally, it blossoms in spring, summer and autumn. If it moves back indoors in winter, with sufficient light and temperature, it will also blossom in winter. It can be said that it is not too long to blossom all the year round. The single flowering period is more than 20 days. After flowering, it will grow branches, grow tired and blossom, and cycle alternately.

Easy to cultivate

Although it is woody, Kowloon spitting beads can be planted in pots, have a certain ability to climb walls, and can be raised as vines. Vitality is super tenacious, very heat-resistant, I once sent flower seedlings to flower friends in the north, in the summer, sent to the local leaves wilted, originally thought hopeless, on the basin watered thoroughly, the next day to restore as before, it is very commendable.

You can also make bonsai.

Kowloon spit beads grow very fast, even in the hottest season, do not dormant, grow as usual, can grow 20 cm a month, many branches, resistant to pruning, but also woody flowers, very suitable for pruning into bonsai trees, bonsai flowers full of branches, ornamental value is still very high, pruned branches, but also can continue to cuttage propagation, the survival rate is very high, a mother tree can be divided into many pots a year, the excess can also be given away. It is a good product of rare potted plants and bonsai.