The flower-loving mandarin is here!
Recently want to get a recommended series, recommend some of their own grass, extremely friendly to novice flower friends, skin and good to raise fragrant indoor flower plants, the requirements are really much (*^▽^*), but also for their own flower list to make a record to keep it!
Silver-spotted bulbous orchid/ bulbous orchid Hoya Carnosa
An indoor vine plant from friend Amway- Silver Spotted Bulbophyllum, Oleander family Radix subfamily Bulbophyllum, perennial evergreen vine herb, mostly from Southeast Asia and Australia, Taiwan and Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan and other places also have.
Many people wonder if bulbophyllum is not a radix? How come there are more oleanders?
Bulbophyllum originally belonged to the family Radix, and with the continuous research, the evidence of molecular biology is becoming more and more sufficient, so the entire Family of Radix is merged into the Oleander family.
The map of Coppenna ball orchid Hoya campanulata in the museum painting is from: pinterest
There is also a small doubt about its name, in the bulbous orchid family, there is also a model called the silver-spotted bulbous orchid, the Latin name is Hoya curtisii, it grows like this:
The flowers of Hoya curtisii go like this:
And the silver-spotted orchid we introduce today, its Latin name is Hoya Carnosa.
It also has many other names, in Guangdong also called ball orchid, cherry orchid, butterfly plum, plastic flower, climbing rock slab, grass shoe board, in Guangxi also called horse coleslaw, dog tongue vine, iron foot board, in Fujian also called wall plum, snow plum, rust ball flower, pneumonia grass, plant name on the test called jade butterfly plum, jade stacked plum, or silver spotted bulb orchid is the best!
Some people say that the hoya of the bulb orchid is derived from Latin, and I learned from the search for the information that the hoya of the bulb orchid was given by the botanist Robert Brown in honor of his good friend, another botanist, Thomas Hoy, and not from the original Latin word.
This cargo is solid, easy to raise, fast growing, hanging can be wrapped and climbed, do not need how to water and fertilize, is really a "lazy" plant.
Cute oval oblong, fleshy and shiny dark green leaves, the even distribution of milky white or silver spots on the leaves is very special, when not flowering, it is also very beautiful to make green plants!
Large balls of pure white flowers, each up to 20 mm in diameter, with a white corolla with a red center. Each umbel-shaped inflorescence has a maximum of 25 flowers.
It can not only produce very beautiful pentagonal or pentagonal flowers, but also use these flowers to form a near-perfect spherical poly umbrella inflorescence, by adjusting the length and direction of each peduncle, so that the entire inflorescence as close as possible to a ball, very special!
The petals of the bulbous orchid are quite delicate and textured. In French, the orchid is called a porcelain flower or wax flower, which refers to its glazed surface.
The floral fragrance is strong, the honey-like fragrance, the flowering period is very long, and the friend said that her flower has not withered for 2 weeks.
It blooms once a year, from April to June, and does not need to be trimmed after the flowering stem, and the second year it will bloom on the peduncle of the first year.
The light requirements are not high, resistant to shade, like scattered light, placed next to the window, can have scattered light on the line.
Do not expose to direct sunlight, as intense sunlight may cause leaf burns, yellow leaves and plant wilting.
The environmental requirements of bulbous orchids vary greatly depending on the place of origin.
Bulbous orchids produced in the subtropics grow in the jungle, mostly associated with yin plants such as ferns, prefer medium intensity light, and are also shade tolerant, growing at a moderate temperature of 15 to 25 °C, some species can tolerate a low temperature of about 0 in winter, because of less rainfall in autumn and winter, its drought tolerance is also strong;
The bulbous orchids produced in tropical areas, mostly born in the rain forest, warm in winter and cool in summer, abundant rain, growing at a moderate temperature of 20 to 28 ° C, the temperature is best not to be lower than 10 ° C when cultivating, otherwise it may lead to cold damage, prefer a humid environment, and have slightly poor drought tolerance.
It prefers to grow in slightly acidic soils with good drainage and high organic matter content. Perlite, vermiculite, peat moss and bark are good choices as media.
Silver-spotted bulbous orchids are beautiful indoors, silver-spotted leaves, clusters of spherical small flowers, vines are entangled, and hanging a pot of bulbous orchids at home is still great!