Can you raise wax peonies?

Wax peony, Echeveria nuda, crassulaceae, Liriodendron. As long as more light, less water and large temperature difference can be redder and more yellow, in Japan and South Korea, the Latin name of wax peony is mistakenly named Echeveria nuda. In fact, Echeveria nuda is another native succulent plant of the genus Clematis, while wax peony is a horticultural variety, and its parent is hybridized from Echeveria agavoides (Dongyun primitive species) x Sedum cuspidatum, so it is directly labeled as Echeveria agavoides x Sedum cuspidatum in Europe.

The leaf surface of wax peony is waxy and very smooth, but because it is an intergeneric cross, the leaves often have irregular variation, like deformities. During the growing period, the leaf color is bright green to yellowish red, the temperature difference between day and night is large, or the leaf edge of the low temperature period in winter will turn yellow, while in the weak light state, the leaf color will be light and light green, the leaf will also be elongated, and the leaf surface of the plant is smooth and not easy to accumulate water.

Wax peony needs to receive sufficient sunshine before the leaf edge will be gorgeous, and the plant type will be more compact and beautiful. Wax peony is a small and medium-sized variety. After many years of group growth, the plant will be very spectacular, with clusters of spikes, yellowish flowers, reddish apex and five-lobed flowers.

Many meat lovers are not very clear about the maintenance methods of wax peony, wax peony is a very good horticultural variety, wax peony needs sufficient sunshine and cool, dry environment, resistant to semi-shade, afraid of waterlogging, avoid muggy and humid. It has the habit of growing in cool season and dormant at high temperature in summer. The growing period is from September to June of the second year (the environment of meat friends is different, and the growing period is also short). If the light is not enough, the leaves will grow too long, and the red edge of the leaves will slowly fade to green or light green; while the plants that grow in sunny places are short and strong, and the leaves will be arranged compactly.

Wax peony needs to keep the soil moist and avoid stagnant water during the growing period. Soil available cinder mixed peat, a small amount of perlite, the ratio is about 5:4:1, wax peony can withstand about minus 2 ℃ of low temperature, is the indoor temperature, non-open air, and then low leaf tip growth point will appear frostbite, dry death, basic water cut off throughout the winter, 5 degrees below will begin to slowly cut off water. When the summer high temperature, the whole plant growth is slow or completely stopped, at this time to be well ventilated and properly shaded, avoid exposure, control watering, not long-term rain, so as to avoid plant rot.

The reproduction of wax peony is generally cuttage and leaf cutting. the cut plants can be cut directly in the dry granular soil, and a small amount of water can be supplied after rooting. The leaf insertion method is to take the complete and full leaves, put them in a cool place to dry the wound (kites usually take off the leaves directly and throw them on the soil surface, and the leaf wounds do not touch the soil), and then put them on the slightly wet soil, it will slowly grow into roots and sprout, the process is a bit long, but you can get a lot of small lateral buds, lateral buds grow, take off the cuttings.

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