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Aspidistra


Category: Decorative leaf

11 Jul : 14:40

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Origin: Japan

In nature, 8 species are distributed aspidistri. They are perennial herbaceous plants.
Aspidistrata is extremely resistant plant. It is resistant to air currents, dry and dirty air and heat, and cold winter prepolivane, drought. She does not particularly matter what the composition of the soil. There are only two things that can harm this "iron" plant - direct sunlight and inadequate replanting.

Aspidistrata leaves are dark green (there variegatna form with cream covered with leaves), glossy, or shirokoovalni lantsetni (recall the leaves of lily of the valley in shape), reaches 70 cm in length and 15 cm wide on long stems. At the base of the sheet can be seen 1 or 2 reduced leaves lyuspoobrazni covering the handle. Their function is to protect the growing green leaf by helping him to break through the soil. Flowers are small, purple, short-term, appear in the breasts of young leaves of lyuspoobraznite drazhchitsi. In indoor bloom conditions is rare. Rhizome is creeping, highly branched. Each green sheet belongs to a separate vertical branch.
Some species have a cream-colored flowers or covered with dots.

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Category: Decorative leaf

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