A new type of potted ornamental plant that is even easier to grow than pothos, evergreen all year round and blooming continuously throughout the year
Introduction
Green plants and potted plants are essential decorative items for home life; they can beautify the room and also delight the mood and nurture the character. Keeping some flowers and plants at home brings many benefits. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1017" takes you to get to know a new type of ornamental plant.
Today's featured plant
Easy-to-grow plants such as pothos and spider plant are less impressive ornamentally; flowers with long blooming periods, such as fuchsia and Rieger begonia, are not easy to care for. This issue introduces a plant that has a long blooming period and is very easy to grow. This flower is called cigar flower. The plant is short, with many branches and a large number of flowers, and a long blooming period, making it a very popular new type of ornamental flower.
Cigar flower
Cigar flower, also known as peacock blue, with the scientific name Cuphea, is a perennial shrub or subshrub of the genus Cuphea in the family Lythraceae. The plant is low-growing, only 30-70 cm tall, with many branches. It produces small purple flowers, and when it blooms it covers the branches like a sky full of stars, so it is also called "baby's breath," though to distinguish it from the herbaceous baby's breath, it is usually called purple-flowered baby's breath or woody baby's breath.
Blooms continuously throughout the year
Cigar flower originates from Mexico in the Americas. Because of its strong resistance and adaptability, along with its pure and elegant flower color and high ornamental value, it has been developed as an ornamental plant and widely introduced around the world. Its leaves are evergreen all year round, and it blooms continuously throughout the year. It is an excellent plant for greening and beautification, widely used in gardens and on streets, and is also an emerging excellent potted plant.
Very easy to grow
Cigar flower likes light and is also tolerant of shade, with strong adaptability. In the southern South China region, it is a very common street flowerbed and street tree, and even with no care all year round, it can still grow well. As a household potted plant, it can be managed extensively. After taking a section of branch for cuttings, it roots in 12-18 days, with a high survival rate, and is even easier to grow than lazy-person herbaceous flowers such as pothos and spider plant. The downside is that it is not cold-tolerant, so in the north it must be moved indoors to overwinter.
An excellent potted plant
Cigar flower grows quickly. To maintain a beautiful tree shape, it needs frequent pruning. As a woody plant, it can also be shaped into a bonsai tree, and the branches cut off can continue to be used for cuttings. A perennial evergreen shrub, it can not only add springlike greenery to the room like other green plants, but also bloom throughout the year for enjoyment. Beautiful and easy to grow, it is well worth getting.