Recently, the cut flower market of the New Year's Eve flower is hot, but is the "pine red plum" you buy really a pine red plum? #海妈园艺课堂 #
However, most of the so-called "pine red plums" sold on the market are actually "Australian wax plums". Pine red plum and Australian wax plum belong to the same myrtle family.
【Pine red plum】: Alias pine leaf peony. The leaves are shaped like pine needles, and the flowers are mostly heavy petals, resembling a small peony flower. The décor is mostly pink in different shades. Most of them are planted, and cut flowers are less used. Indoors can also have small flower trees, the flowering period is from December to March, and the full blooming period coincides with New Year's Day and Spring Festival. Figures 1 on the right and 2 are pine red plums.
【Australian wax plum】: alias wax flower, gold rush color plum. The leaves are also shaped like pine needles, and the petals have a waxy luster, most of which are single petals, resembling plum blossoms. The décor is pink or white with purple or golden hearts. Mostly for cut flower applications, the bottle cutting period is very long, can be 1-2 months. Figure 3-9 shows australian wax plum.
【How to distinguish between pine red plum and Australian wax plum?】 】
1. In terms of appearance, the petals of the pine red plum are more overlapping and overlapping, and the petals of the Australian wax plum are more single (usually so, the Australian plum also has a heavy petal type. The pine red plum heart is dark red with almost no obvious flower buds; the Australian wax plum has obvious flower buds. The overall flower type of pine red plum is more stretched, and the Australian wax plum type is more compact. Another point is the most intuitive, Australian wax plum cut flowers are usually dyed red, orange, blue and other colors, pine red plum is generally the natural color pink or red. Figure 1 is australian wax plum on the left and pine red plum on the right.
2, from the growth habits, they are not too hardy, pine red plum growth temperature of 18 ° C -25 ° C, Australian wax plum growth temperature of 15 ~ 35 ° C. Seedlings cannot tolerate frost, which freezes flowers and buds, which affects the quality of flowers, and severe frost may also cause seedling death.
【Conservation points】: Planting soil to be rich in humus, loose and fertile, well-drained slightly acidic soil is the best, avoid high temperature and humidity, but also to prevent poor drainage and long-term accumulation of water. In winter, it is best to maintain indoors, and outdoor planting needs to prevent frost.
