The easiest woody flowering plant to grow - survives from cuttings, has unusual flower shapes, blooms all year round, and can also be made into bonsai
Introduction
Potted green plants are already an essential decorative element of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits - it beautifies the room and lifts your mood. "Flower Voice Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1138" introduces you to a super easy-to-grow woody flowering plant.
Today's Featured Plant
The city where I live is known as the "Flower Capital" and "Flower City", with a developed flower-growing industry. Since childhood I have been exposed to all kinds of flowers and plants: common ordinary potted green plants like pothos and spider plant, oddly shaped pitcher plants and Venus flytraps, the fuchsia with its unusual flower shape, and beautiful fairy-like herbaceous flowers such as ranunculus and Lisianthus. The flower introduced today is called white dragon spit pearl (Clerodendrum thomsoniae), which I consider the easiest indoor woody flowering plant to cultivate.
White Dragon Flower
White dragon spit pearl, affectionately called white dragon flower by gardening enthusiasts, compared with the red dragon spit pearl (the red dragon is rare and expensive), is a perennial shrub in the Verbenaceae family, a woody plant, and when planted in the ground can grow to over 3 m tall. It has a somewhat vine-like nature and can be used for flower walls and flower columns. Its flower shape is unusual, with a white corolla and red calyx, shaped like a pagoda, evergreen all year round, and with high ornamental value.
High ornamental value
The white dragon flower is one of the plants with the longest flowering period I have ever seen, comparable to Madagascar periwinkle. Madagascar periwinkle is said to bloom every day, while the white dragon blooms every month. With proper care, it blooms almost continuously all year round, with an extremely long ornamental period. Moreover, it opens in clusters of many buds at once, and when it blooms it covers the whole branch, even outnumbering the leaves, which is very spectacular.
Survives from cuttings
At the same time, the white dragon flower is also recognized as one of the easiest woody flowering plants to grow. It can be propagated from cuttings just like succulents and herbaceous plants: take mature branches, keep 3-5 leaves, insert them into growing medium (such as vermiculite), keep the soil moist, and in about a week they will take root and sprout. After transplanting, it becomes a small tree again - super easy to grow, and even beginners can grow it well.
Excellent bonsai material
The white dragon flower is also very easy to care for. This plant is robust by nature, tough and durable, likes light, and has low requirements for fertilizer and water - water thoroughly after the soil dries out, and apply a light fertilizer once a month. It grows rapidly, is in a growth period in all four seasons, and tolerates pruning. You can shape it into various bonsai tree forms according to your preference, place it on a balcony or in a room for both ornament and elegance, and it also has a flowering period that continues through all four seasons - well worth having.