As the saying goes, "flowers also need green leaves", many plant flowers are more and more delicate under the foil of leaves, so the ancients used to compare the beautiful love in the world, or poetry or mountain songs or novels. However, there are also plants that clearly go to different styles, that is, the green leaves used to foil the flowers are huge, if you don't look closely, you really think that there are only green leaves and no flowers, such as tiger face flowers. The three words "Tiger YanHua" are not only domineering, but also its own background is also very strong, "black words" translate to "there are people on the top".
1. Introduction to plants
Tiger flower ( scientific name : Tigridiopalma magnifica C. Chen ) belongs to the wild peony family Tiger face flower genus herbaceous, the stem is very short, covered with red coarse hairs, with a thick and short rhizome, slightly woody; leaf membranous, heart-shaped, nearly rounded at the apex, basal heart-shaped, 20-30 cm long and wider, covered with red long soft hairs and slightly soft hairs; petiole cylindrical, fleshy, covered with red coarse hard hairs, grooved. Scorpion-tailed poly-umbrella inflorescences are axillary, with long peduncles, glabrous, blunt tetragonal; bracts are very small and fall early; calyx funnel-shaped cup-shaped, glabrous, with wrinkled wavy narrow wings on the edges; petals are dark red, broadly inverted ovate; capsules are funnel-shaped cup-shaped, protruding out of the calyx, and the calyx-shaped. The flowering period is about November, and the fruiting period is from March to May.
2. Growth environment
Tiger flower is native to southwestern Guangdong, China (not found on Hainan Island). At an altitude of about 480 meters, the valley is shaded and wet, by the stream, by the river or on the rocks. Prefer high temperature, humid semi-shade environment, strong cold tolerance, not tolerant to drought, avoid direct sunlight. In winter, you must do a good job of keeping warm, and it is easy to freeze to death below 5 ° C.
3. Application value
Because of its large leaves, beautiful leaf shape, strong shade resistance, small and exquisite flower buds, bright water spirit, flowers and leaves set off each other, contrasting with each other, high ornamental value, can be used as a high-grade foliage plant for indoor and courtyard ornamentation. Indoor ornamentation can be used to decorate living rooms, meeting rooms, bedrooms, balconies, windows, etc.; garden cultivation is often used for cultivation in hidden places or potted plants under the gallery.
4. History of Botany
Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the 1970s during a vegetation survey in Ehuangzhuang discovered a strange flower that was not recorded in the Flora of China, which had a peculiar shape, large leaves and small flowers, and the page was covered with tiger stripes, which attracted the attention of the plant kingdom after it was announced in the world. The Chinese botanical community named this flower "Tiger Face Flower", and then the Tiger Face Flower was listed as a first-class endangered protected plant by China, and its name was written into China's "Red Book of Chinese Plants", which was protected by global humans. According to the IUCN's 1994 New Classification System of Endangered Species, wild tiger flowers are listed as critically endangered species and have important scientific research value.
5. The main breeding method
Tiger flower propagation can use sowing, cuttings, splitting and tissue culture, etc., but the sowing offspring is largely variable, cuttings are limited by the season, tissue culture investment is large, stress resistance is poor, and the plant is not suitable for large-scale production. The use of plant non-test tube efficient fast propagation technology to propagate Tiger Face Flower only needs to be a micromaterial (one leaf and one bud) as the seed, and cultured under appropriate conditions, which can directly cultivate plants growing under the natural conditions of the earth, without complex seedling refining steps, without any transplanting. On the whole, the use of plant non-test tube efficient and fast propagation technology for micromaterials asexual and fast reproduction, can be no variation, low cost, short cycle, large-scale, industrialized large-scale fast reproduction production, and quickly supply seedlings to all sectors of society. Plant non-test tube efficient fast propagation technology is a new plant cloning new system, completely out of laboratory conditions, do not need tissue culture bottles and cans, seedling facilities are simple, than conventional seedlings greatly save germplasm material, inoculation speed is extremely fast, labor efficiency is extremely high.