In fact, we habitually call evergreen plants evergreen, and southern evergreen is actually a large-leaf boxwood
The large-leaved boxwood is an evergreen shrub or small tree with slightly quadrangular twigs, dense foliage, and a spherical crown. Single-leaf paraphyletic, inverted ovate or oval, with blunt teeth at the edges, dark green surface, shiny. The inflorescence is axillary, with long stems and greenish-white flowers. The capsules are spherical, pale red, and the false seed coat is orange-red.
Common varieties are: Phnom Penh Large-leaved Boxwood with Golden Yellow Leaf Margin, and Silver-edged Large-leaved Boxwood Leaf Heart with Golden Yellow Spots, both of which are important foliage species.
The case characteristic of large-leaf boxwood is long worms, and many creepy small insects like to live in large-leaf boxwood, which really makes friends who like to plant at home and balconies distress
In horticulture, we call the large-leaved boxwood holly spear family, and the large-leaf boxwood also appears in the form of shrub balls in greening projects across the country, mainly used for flower bed greening and road greening. The survival rate of large-leaved boxwood transplanting is very high, and the greening effect can be reflected two months after planting
Spotted moth on large-leaved boxwood: The adult is about 12 mm long, has a wingspan of about 30 mm, the head, thorax and antennae are black-brown, the male moth antennae are feathery, and the female moth's antennae are ctenophoric. The dorsal and ventral sides of the thorax are long orange-yellow hairs , the forewings are translucent , but the base of the wings is yellow , the rest are dark gray , the veins are dark brown , and the base of the hindwings is yellow. The eggs are oval and flattened, yellowish-white at first and gradually become pale brown. The larvae are about 20 mm long , with a small head , black-brown , yellowish-green body , and sparse white hairs on the sides and back of the body. Pupae are oblate ovate , about 8–10 mm long , with a pale yellowish brown head and thorax in the early stages and a yellowish-green abdomen. A black line is visible on the body and brown in the later stages. Its pupae are often covered with an oval flattened brown cocoon.
Prevention and control methods:
1. Strengthen maintenance management and cut off egg branches.
2. Use black light to trap adult insects.
3. Spray 1500 times the rice full liquid during the peak of the larvae.