Matters needing attention in the culture of Dichondra repens

Remove weeds

Dichondra repens in lawn greening, because it takes a period of time to fully cover, so there will be weeds, less weeds can be used to pull out manually, if more weeds can be used herbicide spray.

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Culture methods and matters needing attention of Dichondra repens

Latin name Dichondra repens Forst.

It is also called small money grass, lotus bract grass, meat wonton grass, gold key, copper money grass, small horseshoe, jaundice grass.

Binomial Dichondra repens

The plant kingdom.

Phylum angiosperm

Dicotyledonous class

Subclass synpetalous flower

Order Tubularia

Family Convolvulaceae

Subfamily Convolvulinae

Family Xuan Hua tribe

Horseshoe metal

Dichondra repens

Distribution area tropical and subtropical regions of two hemispheres

Dichondra repens (Dichondra repens Forst.), alias small money grass, lotus bract grass, meat wonton grass, gold key, copper money grass, Dichondra repens, jaundice grass, is a spiral flower family, horseshoe metal plant. Distributed in the south of the Yangtze River in China (including Taiwan), widely distributed in Guizhou, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Hunan and other places, growing in areas ranging from 1300 meters to 1980 meters above sea level, and growing on roadsides, hillside grasslands or ditches. Has been artificially introduced and cultivated. It is a common herb for the Miao people to treat hepatitis. The name of the Miao medicine is Wobi Credit slip. It is a perennial creeping herb, harvested from April to June. Taste bitter, pungent, slightly cold, the host lung meridian and stomach meridian, with heat-clearing and detoxification, diuresis, blood-activating effect, is blindly rich in resources of Miao folk medicine, has a good development and utilization value.

1. Morphological characteristics.

Small creeping perennial herbs, stems slender, gray pubescent, rooting at nodes. Leaves reniform to orbicular, 4-25 mm in diam., apex broadly rounded or emarginate, base broadly cordate, leaf surface puberulent, abaxially Adnate pubescent, entire; petiole long, petiole (1.5) 3-5 (6) cm long.

Flowers solitary leaf axils, petiole shorter than petiole, filiform; sepals Obovate-oblong to spatulate, obtuse, 2-3 mm long, abaxially and marginal hairy; Corolla campanulate, shorter to slightly longer than calyx, yellow, deeply 5-lobed, lobes oblong-lanceolate, glabrous; stamens 5, inserted in curved spaces between Corolla 2 lobes, filaments short, equal; ovary sparsely pilose, 2-loculed, with 4 ovules, style 2, stigma capitate.

Capsule subglobose, smaller, shorter than calyx, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., membranous. Seeds 1-2, yellow to brown, glabrous.

The culture method of Dichondra repens and the matters needing attention in the process of culture

Dichondra is a rotational flower family, horseshoe metal plant, is blindly rich in resources of Miao folk medicine. So, do you want to know what are the planting techniques of Dichondra repens? Do you want to raise Dichondra? Today, the editor, next we will come to know the plant Dichondra.

Culture methods of Dichondra repens

Light and temperature

The growth of Dichondra should maintain enough light and be exposed to more sunlight every day so that it can grow exuberant and green. Dichondra repens has both light-loving and shade-resistant growth habits. It can grow in semi-humid places and does not require high temperature, but it will frostbite when the temperature drops from-6 ℃ to-7 ℃.

Water and fertilizer management

Dichondra repens needs regular irrigation and appropriate fertilization during its growth. The seedlings of Dichondra repens were irrigated once or twice a week after being unearthed, and the times of irrigation should be increased in dry season. After maturity, watering should be controlled in early spring and early winter, and the watering times should be determined according to the soil quality in the Spring Festival growing season.

Dichondra likes nitrogen fertilizer, usually combined with rain and watering, should apply appropriate amount of nitrogen fertilizer, after fertilization to pour a lot of water to reduce the degree of leaf burns. Or fertilize first, then sweep the fertilizer under the leaves, and then combine with watering. At the same time, the high temperature in summer can not be fertilized.

Soil

Dichondra is not very strict on the soil, as long as the drainage conditions are moderate, it can be planted on sandy soil and clay.

Grow in fields or mountains with fertile soil.

Matters needing attention in the culture of Dichondra repens

Remove weeds

Dichondra repens in lawn greening, because it takes a period of time to fully cover, so there will be weeds, less weeds can be used to pull out manually, if more weeds can be used herbicide spray.

Propagation methods of Dichondra repens

Dichondra repens is commonly used to reproduce by sowing and dividing plants.

Pest control of Dichondra repens

Dichondra repens lawn has strong disease resistance, only white silk disease and a small amount of leaf spot mildew occur. Rust will also occur.

Sclerotinia disease.

The larval grubs of beetles, armyworm of night moths and larvae of small land tiger are the main pests of Dichondra lawn. There are other pests such as snails, meadow borer, and pointed locusts.

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