Junzi orchid, also known as big-flowered junzi orchid, large-leaf stone garlic, sword-leaf stone garlic, and da mulan, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Junzi orchid in the family Stone Garlic family, and is the city flower of Changchun City.
Many friends like to breed Junzilan, but they know less about the source of Junzilan, so let's introduce the source of Junzilan.
In September 1815, the fearless natural scientist William. Busir first scientifically collected Junzilan at the headwaters of the Giant Fish River in South Africa's Eastern Cape. Then, around 1820, James Bovey collected some Junzilan at the same location and shipped it to England, and in 1828, John Lindley named CLIVIA in honor of the Duchess of Charlotte Florence Clive in Northumberland, England.
Junzilan plant elegant and handsome, has a gentleman's style, flowers such as orchids, and named, the root fleshy fibers, the base of the leaves form a false bulb, the leaves are shaped like a sword, alternate arrangement, full edge. Junzi orchid is native to southern South Africa, avoid strong light, semi-negative plants, like cool, avoid high temperature, like thick, well-drained soil and moist soil, avoid dry environment, life can reach decades or longer.
Junzi orchid is a member of the Lycophyllaceae family. Junzi orchid is a perennial herb, its plant is elegant and handsome, has a gentleman's style, flowers like orchids, and got its name. The roots are fleshy and fibrous, forming pseudo-bulbs at the base of the leaves, the leaves are sword-like, up to 85 cm long, alternately arranged, full margins. The umbel-shaped inflorescence is apical, and each inflorescence has 7 to 30 small flowers, and more than 40 flowers. The florets have stalks, arranged in an umbel shape at the tip of the flowers, and the flowers are funnel-shaped, upright, yellow or orange-yellow. It can bloom all year round, mainly in spring and summer. The fruit ripens around October. Flowers and leaves are beautiful. Beautiful and generous, and shade-resistant, it is suitable for potted indoor decoration, which is an ideal potted flower for viewing leaves and flowers, and is also an ideal potted flower for arranging the venue and decorating the hotel environment. There is also the effect of purifying the air and medicinal value, is the preferred variety of people.
The roots of Junzilan are milky white, very stout, and very fleshy. Roots and leaves have a certain correlation, when new roots and leaves grow, new leaves will also be issued, the roots will be eliminated (rotted or dried by the water, etc.), as long as the leaves do not wilt, pay attention to maintaining the moisture of the soil during maintenance, remember not to water over-watering and over-drying, then the roots will re-grow new roots, so that the plant can survive (proper maintenance, about 10 days can find the growth of new roots); Damage to the blades can also affect the roots.
Junzi orchid can be arranged in south China for flower beds or cut flowers, and in East China and the north of the Yangtze River Basin, it can be used as an indoor potted plant to watch leaves and flowers.
China mainly uses the sowing method to breed Junzi orchid, thus forming a variety of varieties. Junzi orchid cultivation is relatively simple, first of all, choose a good potting soil, can be placed indoors near the window, according to the characteristics of the temperature in various places to grasp the fertilizer water. During the growth period, the potting soil should be kept moist, and the potting soil should be dried during the high temperature and semi-sleeping period, and more water should be sprayed on the foliar surface to achieve the purpose of cooling. Junzi Lan likes fertilizer, and every 2 to 3 years in the spring and autumn, change the potting soil and add rotten cake fertilizer to the potting soil. Apply 5 to 40 grams of rotten cake fertilizer under the pot soil before the growing period every year, and grow liquid fertilizer once a year. In the management, it is necessary to rotate the pot frequently to prevent the leaves from being deflected to one side, and if there is a side, it should be straightened in time. When the temperature is 25 to 30 degrees, it is easy to cause the leaves to grow long, making the leaves narrow and long and affecting the ornamental effect, so the cultivation of Junzi orchid must pay attention to adjusting the room temperature.
Junzi Orchid has so far found a total of five kinds of Junzi Orchid, called The Laughing Gentleman Orchid, the Big Flower Junzi Orchid, the Fine-leaved Junzi Orchid, also translated as the Garden Junzi Orchid, the Stem Junzi Orchid and the Strange Junzi Orchid, and in 2004, another one called the Swamp Junzi Orchid was found in southern Natal. That is to say, only the above six kinds of junzilan are recognized by the South African Junzilan Association.
Among them, all Chinese Junzi orchids belong to the large-flowered Junzi orchids in the genus Junzi orchids, and the flower colors are mainly red and orange. In contrast to the floral arts of other countries, China's Junzi orchid is mainly based on leaf art. According to the classification of flower strains, the Chinese Junzi orchid belongs to the red and orange flower families of the Junzi orchid genus.
Smiling Gentleman Lan
The weeping leaves are very hard and rough, banded, about 300-800 mm long and 25-50 mm wide. The leaf ends are very blunt. Its inflorescences generally have 20-60 small flowers, drooping. The flowers are mostly dark orange with green petal tips. But there are also flowers with colors between pink and yellow and dark red. It generally has 1-2 seeds in the fruit, the skin is red, and the red fruit takes 9 months to mature. The leaves of seedlings bred from seeds are slender, about 1.5 mm thick.
Big Flower Gentleman Orchid
In the original ecological area, the width of the leaves of the large flower Junzi orchid generally does not exceed 50 mm, and rarely reaches 90 mm. The shape of the flower is thin-petaled and wide-petaled, like a trumpet. The inner petals are generally wider than the outer petals. The color of the flowers is generally orange, with a yellowish-white core. Of course, there are also flowers of color between the yellow-white and dark red lines. Flowers of very light and very dark colors are relatively rare. When flowering, there are generally about 20 flowers in a flower bud, and there are also 40 flowers. There are 1-20 seeds in the berries, usually less than 10.
Junzilan usually uses only two breeding methods: one is sexual reproduction, that is, sowing and propagation; The other is the split propagation method in asexual reproduction. It is more common for the large-flowered junzi orchid to be propagated by sowing seeds. The advantage of the propagation method is that it can be multiplied in large quantities to meet the needs of many flower farmers. However, sowing and propagation should first be artificially pollinated, preferably by heterogeneous pollination (high fruiting rate), and robust plants can generally bear ten seeds after being pollinated by heterophyllum; Pollination of the same plant can only produce a few seeds.
Junzilan summer escape method
In the middle of summer, the temperature is often above 30 °C, which is extremely unfavorable to the growth of Junzi orchid. For this reason, it is generally commonly used to set up a shed to cool down. You can also bury Junzilan into the sand with the basin (bury the basin), and then sprinkle water on the sand once a day in the morning and once in the evening. In this way, not only can the potting soil be kept moist, but more importantly, the heat absorption effect of the water evaporation in the sand can be used to achieve the purpose of cooling.
Junzi orchid is a perennial evergreen herb, but not an ordinary grass, but a treasure grass; Just as a diamond is not an ordinary stone, but a gemstone. Junzi orchid is a kind of exotic flower and grass, she is strange in the leaves and flowers are good, and the leaves are better than the flowers. "Although the hundred flowers are good, don't ask, only the gentleman suppresses the crowd." Other flowers, "flowers bloom and fall sometimes", but also have to "store for the next year", it is difficult to make people long-term infatuation. And Junzi orchid Leaves, moons, months, and months can be enjoyed by people every day, giving people a beautiful enjoyment.
The purpose of junzi orchid flowering is to pollinate, fertilize, set fruit, and produce seeds to become berry reproduction. The fruit takes about 8-9 months to grow, in order to change from small to large, from green to red, the seed can ripen, so Junzilan has three seasons of fruit. The fruit of the color orchid is even more colorful, and it is beautiful.
Junzi orchid can be admired, and the whole plant is medicinal. In addition to beautifying the environment, there is also a certain medicinal value. Junzilan plants contain Iycorine and Clidine, as well as the trace elements selenium, which have been used by drug practitioners to conduct scientific research using plants containing these chemical components and have been used to treat cancer, hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver, ascites and poliovirus. Experiments have proved that the lycopene extracted from the leaves and roots of Junzilan not only has antiviral effects, but also has anti-cancer effects.
The anticancer activity of lycopene was confirmed by experiments, which were mainly manifested as obvious inhibitory effects on aerobic or anaerobic fermentation of cancer cells. The positively charged quaternary ammonium salt in lycopene can be combined with negatively charged tumor cells, and the negatively charged phenolic ion group can enter the interior of positively charged tumor cells, thereby playing an anti-cancer role.
Lycopene is mainly used for the treatment of gastrointestinal tumors, such as stomach cancer, liver cancer, esophageal cancer, etc., and also has a certain effect on lymphoma and lung cancer. On February 18, 1985, the Changchun Junzilan News published a message saying: A liver cancer patient who took Junzilan Decoction and was able to revive the dead is a good example. In addition to the above effects, lycopene still has a more obvious emetic effect, and its emetic effect is stronger than that of tugenine. At the same time, lycopene is low in toxicity and can be used as an emetic agent for various types of poisoning.
Junzi orchid is particularly popular not only because of its bright and delicate floral appearance, but also because it has a superiority that no other flower can match: it is that it has both pleasing flowers and worthy of admiring turquoise, waxy, crystal clear, brilliant leaves. Therefore, many connoisseurs of flowers believe that even if Junzilan does not have delicate and moving flowers, just its jasper-like leaves are already beyond the reach of some foliage plants.
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