Matters needing attention in culturing winter coral

Disease prevention and cure

When the temperature is high in summer, winter corals are prone to anthracnose, which can harm stems and leaves, and even lead to the death of the whole plant. When winter corals get sick, we can cut off and burn the diseased branches and leaves, and spray chemicals.

Florescence management

The florescence management of winter coral is mainly water and fertilizer management. In its flowering period, we need to control the number and amount of watering, drought rather than waterlogging, until it begins to bear fruit and then restore water and fertilizer.

Now do you know the two cutting methods of winter coral? I hope the supplementary points for attention of winter coral culture can help you! As long as you follow the editor's method, your winter coral survival rate will be very large!

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.

Propagation and sowing of winter coral

The sowing of winter coral usually takes place from March to June every year. We first collect the winter coral seeds that mature in winter and prepare them for rinsing and drying before sowing. We can also buy processed winter coral seeds on the market and sow them directly.

The specific operation of sowing is: first sow the seeds of winter coral evenly in the configured basin soil, and then cover with a thin layer of soil, and then pour water, and then as long as you wait a week, the winter coral can germinate. at this time, you can split the seedlings and transplant. When sowing, it can be covered with thin soil and then covered with a layer of plastic film to protect moisture and promote the germination of winter coral seeds.

Cuttage

The cuttage of winter coral can be carried out in spring, summer and autumn. Cutting propagation in the growing period of summer and winter coral will greatly improve the survival rate of winter coral. The advantage of cutting in autumn is that the lovely appearance of winter coral can be seen in the winter of the same year.

The specific method of cutting is to first trim off a winter coral terminal branch, which is about 8 to 10 centimeters long, remove the top buds, then insert the trimmed branches into the soil, and then keep the soil moist at a temperature of 18 to 28 ℃.

And regularly spray water mist on the buds and leaves at the top of the branch, and after about ten days, the cutting winter coral can survive.

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