This woody plant is as easy to grow as pothos, with beautiful flowers and leaves and a strong fragrance, and it can also be made into a bonsai tree

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 has many benefits. "Huasheng Potted Plant Diary, Issue 1050" takes you to get to know a plant with both beautiful flowers and leaves.

Today's featured plant

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and flowers and plants are becoming harder and harder to care for. Many plants, such as succulents, Rieger begonias, and clematis, are well-known for being "difficult to get through summer." For summer flower growing, the plants that can still be chosen are mainly green plants such as pothos and spider plants. The flower introduced this time is called Milan flower, an ornamental flowering tree famous for its rich floral fragrance. The hotter the weather, the better its condition, making it suitable for summer cultivation.

Milan flower

Milan flower, also known as four-season Milan, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the Meliaceae family and the genus Aglaia, native to southern China, distributed from Yunnan to Fujian. Its branches and leaves are dense, the leaf color is verdant and glossy, and it remains evergreen all year round. It blooms small yellow flowers in clustered blooms, with an extremely large flower quantity, and both flowers and leaves are beautiful. It is both a foliage plant and a flowering plant to admire. It is a very common street tree and garden landscape tree in the south, while in the north it is mostly kept indoors as a potted ornamental plant.

When it blooms, the whole room is filled with fragrance

The Milan flower has a very long flowering period. In South China, under natural conditions, it flowers from May to December, blooming many times a year. Grown indoors as a potted plant in the north, as long as there is sufficient light, it will also bloom continuously, making it truly a flowering machine. Its greatest characteristic is its extremely aromatic fragrance. Especially in summer and autumn, when Milan flower street trees on the streets bloom one after another, fragrance is everywhere you go, comparable to the "fragrance spreading for ten li" of osmanthus trees. Grown indoors, when it blooms, the whole room is filled with floral fragrance.

Easy care

Milan flower is a woody plant. Aside from not being cold-tolerant, it has almost no other shortcomings. It tolerates poor soil, tolerates shade, and has good disease resistance. Cultivation and care are very easy. As long as it is placed in a spot with sufficient light, it can be managed extensively, and it is about as difficult to grow as pothos and spider plants. Key care points: regularly supplementing with some fertilizer containing more phosphorus or fermented rice-washing water will make it bloom more, with golden-yellow color and a delicate fragrance.

Excellent bonsai material

Milan flower grows vigorously and tolerates pruning. It can be shaped into a bonsai tree according to preference, with even greater ornamental value. Displayed in the living room, study, office, and so on, it appears fresh and elegant, while waves of floral fragrance greet the nose, refreshing the heart and soothing body and mind. Its leaves are evergreen all year round and glossy. It is both a green plant and a flowering plant to admire, and can also be made into a bonsai tree. Its cost-performance ratio is extremely high, and it is worth having.