What is the language and symbolism of camellia?

Species: Camelliaceae

Origin: Japan

Flower Color: Peach-red-white

Flowering Period: Late Autumn～Winter

AKA: Himeji Pile

The Camellia sinensis, which was given its name by a botanist in Germany, has been popularized all over the world.

It is always in the late fall when the weather is a little cooler, quietly blooming in the garden circle. Camellia is not like a pile, the whole flower falls down, but the petals of a piece of slowly withered, until the end of life.

So the careful way of fading, not the same as the pursuit of the ideal partner's attitude? So gradually the camellia has become the spokesperson for the female lover.

In the winter when almost all the flowers wither, the red camellia is especially warm and full of business. Also, you can enjoy the light fragrance of her flowers in your garden.

★Highlights:

Camellias are easy to see in the garden. The dark green foliage is also very beautiful and can be used as an accompaniment to other flowers. However, it has the disadvantage that the flowers fade easily.

Propagation Methods

The camellia is commonly propagated by cuttings, grafting, pressing, seeding and tissue culture. Usually take cuttings as the main.

Cuttings

Camellia's stem and branch regeneration ability is strong, so cuttings and grafting survival rate are very high, and reproduction speed, easy to operate, high economic benefits, widely used in production. Camellia in better growing conditions, cuttings can be taken throughout the year, generally more in the summer and autumn, and cuttings in the rainy season around June, the survival rate is higher, so when high temperature, high humidity, favorable rooting and budding growth of cuttings.

1, pots and boxes cuttings method

Cuttings with pots, wooden or plastic boxes, pots or boxes in the bottom of the 1-3 drainage holes, the size of each hole for 2-3 cm, requires good drainage. Hole covered with broken tiles, in the bottom layer of a layer of small stones, the middle layer of a layer of coarse sand, the upper layer of 5-10 centimeters of culture soil. Cultivation soil is generally used acidic red and yellow loam, pH 5-6.5, such as clay is too heavy can be mixed with fine sand or sawdust chips. If conditions permit, in the culture of soil mixed with the appropriate amount of humus, vermiculite, rotting organic fertilizer or phosphate fertilizer, bone meal. When the culture soil is alkaline, add ferrous sulfate solution to adjust, so that it is slightly acidic reaction. Culture soil can be exposed to sunlight for a few days, or sterilized with formaldehyde solution, smothered in plastic film for a few days, both have the effect of sterilization.

Pots or boxes filled with culture soil, should be higher than the surface of the pots or boxes, so that it becomes a steamed bread shape, to prevent the pots or boxes of water, and at the same time conducive to the ventilation of the cuttings, improve the survival rate. Cuttings with a finger slightly snap culture soil, and with a fine masticated pot watering, shade, moisturizing management.

2, seedbed cuttings method

Seedbeds should be selected acidic to slightly acidic sandy loam, tilled, made bed width of about 1.2 meters, ditch width of 40-50 centimeters, 20 centimeters high bed, fine, rake flat, bed spray disinfection, covered with film 2-3 days after the cuttings, conducive to the control of pests and diseases. Before the cuttings, with cement columns or moso bamboo built into 1.5-2 meters high trellis, covered with reed curtains or black shade net (shade rate of 60-70%), all around the top down to the ground, and fixed, so that you can take into account the role of shading, wind, moisturizing. If you use plastic greenhouse cuttings nursery, you can take four 30-40 cm high, 80 cm wide arches in the greenhouse, arches spaced about 50 cm, cuttings covered with shade net. The cuttings should pay attention to the leaves are arranged in a neat and orderly manner, after the cuttings are poured with enough planting water, and a layer of mulch is added to the small arches to improve the effect of moisture retention.

3, full light fog cuttings

The full light fog cuttings method requires certain facilities and production scale, low nursery costs, fast rooting, high survival rate.

The full light fog cuttings nursery bed more substrate material or fine sand, under the stone, the bottom of the drainage facilities. The seedbed is equipped with spraying equipment, through the setting of intervals of spraying, maintaining relative humidity, regulating the temperature of the seedbed and other measures to ensure that the cuttings normally absorb water, to prevent the cuttings and leaf buds from drying out.

Grafting

Commonly used in cuttings rooting difficulties or propagation material less varieties. To May-June, the new tips have been half-quality grafting survival rate is the highest, catching live sprouting fast. Rootstock to oil tea-based, October seed, winter sand, early April of the following year, sowing, to be seedlings grow to 4-5 cm, can be used for grafting. Using the shoot splitting method, with a razor blade to cut the germ part of the bud rootstock, in the center of the embryonic axis cross-section, along the medulla upward longitudinal cleave, and then take a section of the camellia scion, but also the section of the lower part of the base cut into a positive wedge, and immediately inserted the peeled scion into the bottom of the rootstock cleavage, aligned with the formation of the formation of the two sides of the layer, with a cotton thread tie, set on a clean plastic pockets. Remove the pocket after about 40 days, and it will take about 60 days to bud and twig.