Scientific name: Hypoestesphyllostachya
Origin: Madagascar Islands
Morphological characteristics:
Ajue Gun Knife is a herb. The plant is short, erect, and more branched. When the branches are long, they tend to bend downwards and become sprawling. Leaves opposite, ovoid, green grass, leaves often dense white or gray red spots. Flowers axillary, corolla pink, throat white.
Growth habits:
A humid, sunny environment requires loose fertile, well-drained soil.
Pot maintenance:
After the gun knife medicine emerges from the house in spring, it is necessary to combine the change basin and cut the whole plant once; the pot soil can be prepared by mixing 2 parts of rot-leaf, 1 bowl of mud and 1 part of sand. The leaves of this flower are thin, avoiding the hot sun, but the lack of light will cause leggy; In addition to the summer shade from June to September to maintain 60% of the light, in other seasons, to ensure that half a day of light every month. During the growing season, we must always make the soil moist and have a high ambient humidity. Do not water until the basin is dry; spray the water on the plants often when the air is dry. This flower does not require much fertilizer. Apply 1-2 decomposable bean cakes with water every month.
After entering the winter greenhouse, it should be placed in a sunny place, the temperature should not be less than 10 °C, basin soil can be slightly dry; early spring, when the greenhouse humidity is high during the day, basin soil to increase the amount of water.
When the old knife stems were half-woody, their growth was not prosperous and the lower leaflets fell off. At this time, they should be renewed through cuttings. From May to June, take stems from 2-4 knots into water or vermiculite.
species:
The genus is Hypoestessanguinolenta:
Also known as powder grass, red dot grass, plant height of about 15 to 50 cm, leaves opposite, grassy, ​​ovate-lanceolate, entire, leaf surface with many white, pink or dark red spots; old sticks The stem nodes are enlarged, and the new branches and leaves are covered with white cotton wool. They fall off with the branches and leaves falling. The racemes are topped with white cotton wool and flowers are small.
Erythema gun knife medicine:
Also known as wolfberry tear grass, red dot grass, gun knife medicine, ear spike gun knife medicine, perennial evergreen grass plants. Plant height 20-30 cm, stem side, much branched. Single leaves opposite, ovate to long ovate, 5-7.5 cm long, 5 cm wide, entire, grass green, bright red or pink spots on the foliage. Red-brown petiole, 2 cm long. It blooms at the end of autumn and winter, with a flowery lip, a corolla pink, a white throat, and a twin.
Erythema gun knife drug plant shape is small, the red and pink spots on the leaves resemble the cuckoo blood, it is very beautiful. It is a small indoor potted plant, suitable for desks, cases and other places.
Family: Aegilops lanceolae
Origin: Madagascar
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