The lush green lush rosette of long arched leaves is chlorophytum. This plant can be found everywhere, in recent years it often adorns urban flower beds. Recognize its varieties by long mustache, on the tips of which bunches of small bushes of children huddle.
Plant description
The green bush belongs to the Liliaceae family, it lives in all the tropics, but South Africa is its true homeland. Tall bushes grew there along the banks of rivers and ponds, they are big lovers of moisture and the sun.
At the same time, these plants are characterized by unprecedented resistance to unfavorable conditions of a temporary nature: they are not afraid of temperature drops and lowering it up to 8 ° C. Remarkably tolerate drought, retaining moisture in its fleshy roots. They grow both on windows and on shaded cabinets or tables.
This is a great decoration of the interior, it is loved for its beauty and lush greenery.
For your information! The plant was first described in European countries at the end of the 19th century.
Is it possible to keep chlorophytum at home
The flower is recognizable, it has gained such popularity because of its unpretentiousness. It is easy to grow and propagate. It will be a great start in breeding flora representatives for a beginner grower, decorate offices, schools, hospitals.
Sometimes they ask a question about chlorophytum for the house: is it good or bad to grow it in the home. The owner of the oldest roots, along with fern, indoor chlorophytum is an excellent filter of magnetic and biological fields, it fills the room with a favorable aura and protects against computer and mobile radiation.
The owner of green leaves cleans the air and moisturizes it, and it is not poisonous, as many people write on the Internet. With abundant watering, its long leaves evaporate excess moisture. It has the ability to absorb carbon dioxide harmful to humans from the air. He is an indispensable assistant in landscaping apartments located near roads, as well as in any apartment near furnaces and heating boilers.
Important! The leaves of the plant secrete volatile, disinfecting air. The plant absorbs harmful particles contained in air, releasing pure oxygen in return.
Chlorophytum: types
The chlorophytum family has about 200 species. They are almost all similar in appearance and care. But there are also decorative varieties distinguished by their beauty and method of reproduction.
Green orange
Ornamental shrub that differs in appearance from its counterparts. Its glossy leaves are much darker and wider, and the stalk of the leaf is painted in a beautiful orange color, which smoothly passes into the central strip of the leaf. The flower does not have a developed stem; its plate shoots form an elongated rosette. The leaf plate is not too long, the bush reaches a height of up to 35 cm.
The care is unpretentious and requires the same conditions of detention as his relatives. The only thing to consider when maintaining this view is the placement. This species is very sensitive to bright sunlight, they can leave burns on its shiny leaves. In the summer, it is better to rearrange in the back of the room, but not in the shade.
For your information! With a lack of light, there is a risk of depriving the flower of an orange color.
Peduncles on the plant do not linger for a long time. White flowers, collected in a conical spikelet, shrouded in a green leaf. Flowering looks very unusual.
The plant is famous for the beauty of its leaves and their unusual color.
Note! In stores, Chlorophytum Green Orange can also be found under the name Chlorophytum Orange or Orchidastrum.
Winged
The winged name was formed from beautiful leaves that are not as long as the usual arches of chlorophytum, they are wide and on long cuttings. Chlorophytum is the winged ancestor of Orange, but only its cuttings can be not only orange. These bright representatives pamper their breeders with a contrasting palette. The cuttings and cores of the leaf are light yellow to dark crimson in dark green leaves.
A beautiful bright bush requires a lot of diffused light, which maintains the brightness of the exotic color. His leaves are shiny, glossy love a lot of humidity and regular spraying. In winter, it is important not to overfill or overdry the earthen lump. Flowers are as unusual as the previous species - a delicate spikelet with inflorescences arranged in a spiral.
Note! An unusual variety that combines the method of growth of the winged and the coloring of the striped species - Charlotte - chlorophytum with a white wide strip on a leaf plate.
Green
Cape chlorophytum is a green bush without stripes. Its shoots are long and drooping, narrow, doubled.
Chlorophytum green can survive drought for up to three weeks
It grows remarkably in flowerbeds and tolerates temperature changes in the summer on the balcony and terrace. Often it can be seen in the role of an ampel plant in a pot or on the walls. The dimensions of its bush often reach 80 cm in height and 50 cm in diameter. It can stand all winter and on window sills. And in the summer, with too bright sunshine, it can get burns on the window. In this case, the areas of foliage will be discolored and will have a silver tint.
Laxum
Rare chlorophytum for Russian apartments. It can be purchased in stores, or by mail ordering directly from Dutch greenhouses. And there he was pampered, so much so that in apartment conditions he does not always grow successfully. Another of its not the most successful advantage is the lack of familiar children. Its flowering is similar to the flowering of winged chlorophytum - in the form of a spikelet.
For your information! The plant propagates only by dividing the root, which does not always grow as we would like.
But, nevertheless, the flower is very beautiful. Its rosette consists of long green leaves with a white, thin edging. This color looks very impressive and decorative, which deserves the love of breeders. The flowering is beautiful, unusual, with white flowers collected in a spikelet.
It will be whimsical in care, since greenhouse cultivation does not forget, which means it will be demanding for sufficient lighting and moisture
Curly-haired
A frequent guest in schools, hospitals and other public institutions, as well as tradescantia. An unpretentious flower is able to create a real holiday on the windowsill. His curly striped hair is pleasing to the eye, purifies the air and gives peace and relaxation of the situation. It grows rapidly, filling the entire diameter of the pot with its outlets. Its not too long leaves are decorated with white and silver stripes in the center of the entire length of the sheet plate. The leaves are twisted and curved beautifully by an arc. It really curls along with peduncles, which also have intricate shapes.
The second name of this chlorophytum is Bonnie curly. To grow a real curly handsome, it is enough to pay attention to him during the active period of growth in the summer. Care for curly chlorophytum is a drinking regime and light. He will be grateful for daily spraying, and once every two weeks, bathing and feeding. Watering is needed after half the soil in the pot has dried. The light is scattered, but in sufficient quantity, otherwise the leaves will fade, and the white decorations will become narrower.
Note! The closest brother with whom the curly-haired handsome man is often confused is chlorophytum komosum, or crested. Inexperienced flower growers expect curls from this variety, but get high arches of a lush variegated bush.
Crested
Pearl
From the beginning of sales through online stores, more and more you can meet with deception. So chlorophytum is not spared by marketers who want to gain profit by fraud. First of all, a new type of Pearl Chlorophytum was invented. And the most terrible deception was that he was attributed a subspecies - Blue pearl, which in the photo depicted a bright blue plant of both shoots and foliage.
The Blue Pearl variety is just an edited photo of a green flower.
In fact, the plant, which is attributed to the Pearl variety and belongs to the family of chlorophytums, is called Rowley's godson, or another name is pearl thread. Yes, the plant is certainly very unusual and beautiful. It resembles beads with its round leaves on thin shoots-strings. But the godson is not a brother of chlorophytum.
Important! Chlorophytum Pearl is a fictional type of plant.
When and how does Chlorophytum bloom
The absence of flowers can be for two reasons:
- insufficient lighting;
- untimely transplant.
The vegetative period of the plant is active, very rare, when the flower does not bloom for a long time
Transplanting is necessary for updating the soil by transshipment in a larger pot. During the transplant, it is important to inspect the roots and remove all damaged ones, since they accumulate moisture, there is a high risk of decay of the processes. Also, sometimes the tips of the leaves begin to blacken, which is also a sign of a plant overflow.
Usually, after a spring transplant, two weeks later the plant releases the first shoots of peduncles. An indicator of a healthy plant will be the thickness and length of this shoot.
Note! If the plant feels comfortable, it releases flower arrows the entire active period of growth - from spring to winter.
Different varieties bloom in different ways, but they are all united by the ugliness of flowers. Chlorophytum is a deciduous ornamental plant that does not belong to beautifully flowering.
- Chlorophytum Cape does not bloom at home. It multiplies by dividing the root and by the children who grow right on the rosette of the flower.
- Striped and crested chlorophytums produce long shoots, on which white-flowered flowers with yellow stamens are arranged in a spiral. They are cute, but inconspicuous in comparison with the green fountain of lush greenery. After flowering, small bushes of children appear on the tips of the shoots of curly chlorophytum. They soon acquire aerial roots and can live on maternal shoots for a long time. Crested varieties nurture babies from leaf sinuses.
- Exotic and unusual varieties of chlorophytum, such as Orange, Laxum and Chlorophytum Ocean or Ocean, bloom with unusual ears of light yellow or greenish flowers.
This interesting spikelet appears as if from a new leaf that envelops it until flowering
Chlorophytum is ideal for beginner gardeners and is loved by experienced breeders. Its unpretentiousness and decorativeness won the love of designers using these green fountains in compositions in the open ground. In the house, this phyto-friend will benefit from air purification and a minimum of care.
