Choose it for growing flowers in September; it roots from cuttings, looks beautiful, blooms for a long time, and can also be made into a bonsai
Introduction
Green plants and potted plants are essential decorative elements of home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and delights the mood. "Huasheng Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1305" introduces you to a flower with a unique flower shape.
Today's featured plant
September is the season for growing flowers. Previous issues introduced many kinds of herbaceous flowers, such as rose begonia, Eustoma grandiflorum, and petunia, all of which are beautiful and easy to grow and worth getting. The flower introduced this issue is called the pearl pagoda tree, a new type of potted ornamental flowering plant, very worth having.
Pearl pagoda
Pearl pagoda, also known as Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae), is an evergreen shrub plant in the Verbenaceae family, native to West Africa, and widely developed in Europe. It has not been introduced to China for long. Its flower shape is unique, resembling a pagoda, with emerald green and glossy leaves, white calyxes, and red corollas that complement each other, giving it very high ornamental value.
Long flowering period
The pearl pagoda tree blooms very readily. In its native West Africa, it blooms all year round without stopping. In China, indoor potted ornamental cultivation can also bloom in multiple seasons, basically once every 2~3 months, with a very long ornamental period, and the flower quantity is large, easy to bloom profusely, deeply loved by flower enthusiasts.
Roots from cuttings
Although the pearl pagoda tree is a woody flowering plant, it has tenacious vitality and extremely strong reproductive capacity. It roots from cuttings and is also very easy to care for. This plant is not choosy about soil and has strong adaptability to the environment. It can be given plenty of water and fertilizer or grown with rough care. As long as there is sufficient light, it will grow vigorously and bloom continuously.
Excellent bonsai material
The pearl pagoda tree has many uses. It has a vine-like nature and the ability to climb walls, so it can be grown as a vine to adorn flower walls, fences, arches, and more. It has many branches and tolerates pruning, and can also be pruned and shaped into a bonsai tree. Its disadvantage is that it is not cold-resistant. In the north, it must be kept indoors in winter, while in southern China and South China it can be grown outdoors. It is perennial; plant it once and enjoy flowers every year. With high cost performance, it is worth getting.