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What are the precautions for growing coral bean (Erythrina corallodendron)?

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Coral bean is extremely fond of light, and during care, only by maintaining sufficient light will it grow more luxuriant with abundant branches and leaves and produce more flowers. Therefore, it is best to provide no less than 6 hours of light per day, and when growing it in a pot, you can place it on a balcony with good light. When coral bean blooms, its colors are brilliant.

Coral bean is extremely fond of light, and during care, only by maintaining sufficient light will it grow more luxuriant with abundant branches and leaves and produce more flowers. Therefore, it is best to provide no less than 6 hours of light per day, and when growing it in a pot, you can place it on a balcony with good light.

When coral bean blooms, its colors are brilliant and its flowers are numerous, making it very charming and highly ornamental. However, coral bean is also very toxic, and if accidentally ingested, it can cause great harm to the human body, so when growing it we can only admire it from afar! If you want to learn more, please pay more attention to the Four Seasons Plant Network!

Precautions for growing coral bean

During growth, coral bean is prone to pests and diseases. The common diseases are mainly root rot, wilt and anthracnose, and the pests are mainly aphids and scale insects. For diseases, sprays such as Bordeaux mixture can be used for treatment, and for pests, insecticides or relatively eco-friendly homemade insecticides can be used to kill them.

Although coral bean has high ornamental value, during cultivation you must also remember that coral bean is highly toxic, and it must never be eaten!

Issues to note when growing coral bean

Avoid excessive contact

Coral bean has many flowers and brilliant colors, making it very suitable as an ornamental flowering plant, but because it is toxic, during cultivation you need to avoid excessive contact, do not let your hands touch its sap, and do not place it where children can easily reach it.

Never "take it orally"

Although coral bean is toxic, its floral fragrance is non-toxic, so as long as we do not have excessive contact with it, place it on a windowsill or balcony as a potted ornamental, and only admire it, it must never be swallowed by mistake as food.

When coral bean blooms, it has high ornamental value, and we can only admire it, never eat it! As long as we do not pick and eat it by mistake, its toxicity will not harm us!

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