A new type of ornamental plant with unusual flower shapes, blooms in all four seasons, is easy to grow and beautiful, and can also be made into a bonsai

Introduction

Potted green plants are already essential decorative elements of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and pleases the mood. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary - Issue 1114" introduces you to a new type of ornamental plant.

Today's featured plant

In the scorching summer, many herbaceous plants go dormant, such as succulents, pelargoniums, fuchsias, and others, in order to safely make it through summer, so there are not many summer-flowering plants, and summer is not very suitable for growing flowers. The flower introduced this time is called Pearl Pagoda, a perennial woody plant in the Verbenaceae family. The hotter the weather, the more brilliantly it blooms, making it suitable for summer cultivation.

Pearl Pagoda

The Pearl Pagoda tree is native to West Africa. As an ornamental plant, it first shone brilliantly in the Netherlands. Its flower shape is unusual: the red corolla extends from the white calyx, one flower with two colors, in a form like a pagoda, hence the name. After being introduced to China, it remained obscure for a long time and was even ignored by many, until clever Guangdong merchants gave it a name, "Dragon Spitting Pearls," after which it suddenly became famous, quickly opened up the market, and became a newly emerging and very popular potted ornamental flowering tree.

Continuous blooming

Like other plants from the tropics, Pearl Pagoda has an extremely long flowering period. Under natural conditions, it can bloom from spring and continue into late autumn. If grown indoors as a potted ornamental, with sufficient winter temperature and ample light, it will also keep blooming in winter, with flowers almost covering the branches throughout the year. Its ornamental period is extremely long, it stays evergreen through all four seasons, and it adds beauty on top of beauty, making it deeply loved.

Easy to cultivate

Pearl Pagoda has extremely strong adaptability to the environment. It is not choosy about soil and does not have high requirements for fertilizer or water. As a household potted plant, it can be maintained with completely extensive care, and is as easy to care for as pothos and spider plants. Its drawback is that it is not cold-resistant. In China, except for South China, where it can be grown outdoors, it must be moved indoors in winter in other places to overwinter. It has strong reproductive capacity and can be propagated by stem cuttings, with a very high survival rate. One mother tree can produce many pots in a year, and the surplus can also be given away.

Excellent material for bonsai

Pearl Pagoda is a woody plant with fast growth. With proper care, it can grow half a meter in a year, has many branches, continuously produces new shoots, and is tolerant of pruning. It is an excellent new type of tree for bonsai. Skilled flower enthusiasts can shape it into beautiful forms according to their preferences and place it at home, where its decorative effect is excellent. Both its flowers and leaves are beautiful, and it offers flowers to admire in all four seasons. The name "Dragon Spitting Pearls" is also festive and auspicious, making it very worth having.