What kind of flower is this?

This is the longevity flower, and its official name is "kale".

Longevity flower is a lovely indoor potted flower with dense green leaves, blooming in winter, clustered and rich colors.

Longevity flower has a long flowering period, so it has become a "festival flower" to set off the festive atmosphere. This kind of flower has high ornamental value, and leaves can be enjoyed when it is not flowering. It is an ideal indoor potted flower. Small and exquisite plants, compact plant type, dense green leaves and flowers. It is an ideal indoor potted flower in winter and spring.

It is very suitable to arrange windowsills, desks and desks on New Year's Day and Spring Festival. The flower beds, windows and halls used in public places have excellent overall viewing effect. Because of the common name "longevity", it is very appropriate and pleasing to send a pot of longevity flowers to relatives and friends on holidays.

Cultivation techniques of longevity flower

Cutting propagation method

May-June or September to 10 can achieve the best results. Select a slightly mature succulent stem, cut it into 5-6 cm long, insert it into a sand bed, cover it with a film after watering at room temperature 15-20℃, and plant the pot after 30 days. Commonly used 10 cm flowerpot. If there are not many seedlings, you can use leaves for cutting. Cut strong and full leaves from the petiole, insert them obliquely or spread them on the sand bed after the incision is slightly dry, and keep the humidity for about 10 ~ 15 days to make them take root from the leaf base and grow new plants.

pot culture

After potted, it grows vigorously in a slightly humid environment, and reddish aerial roots are constantly produced between nodes. Too dry or low temperature, slow growth, red leaves, delayed flowering. Control watering and pay attention to ventilation in midsummer. If the weather is hot and humid, the leaves will rot and fall off easily. Fertilize 1 time every half month during the growth period, or use special fertilizer for potted flowers. In order to control plant height, 1 ~ 2 times coring is needed to promote multi-branch and multi-flowering. After two weeks of planting, longevity flowers were sprayed with 0.2% Bijiu 1 time, plant height 12 cm, and then sprayed with 1 time. This can effectively control the plant height and achieve the effect of beautiful plants, green leaves and many flowers. In the process of flower bud formation in autumn, 1 ~ 2 times of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be applied.

At the same time, in the cultivation process of longevity flowers, short-day treatment can be used to adjust the flowering period, so as to achieve the purpose of providing potted flowers all year round. ?