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Understanding some technical terms to grow succulents

Walter White
2020-08-31 11:00:03
Is planting succulent attracted by its cute appearance? What do you know about succulent terms? You don't know what others are talking about. Today, I will popularize the knowledge of meat for you. You need to know these professional terms!

Succulent name

When searching for some kind of meat on the Internet, there will always be families, genera and species. What are these?

Species name

Also known as scientific name, each plant has only one scientific name.

Generic name

The species with similar morphology and growth habit are classified into one genus.

Scientific name

Professional term for plant classification. If the morphological structure is close to one genus or several genera, such plants are classified into one family. For example, there are 30 genera of Crassulaceae.

Fleshy name

Dioecious (monoecious)

The common term in fleshy maintenance is bisexual flower, which refers to a flower with pistil and stamen. Fleshy can complete pollination by itself. It can bear fruit normally after flowering.

Dioecious tree

It refers to that the unisexual flowers grow on different plants respectively, so there are female plants and male plants.

Fleshy name

dormancy

The plant is in a state of natural growth pause, and is accompanied by the phenomenon of defoliation or partial death on the ground. It occurs in winter and summer.

Winter type and summer type .

Summer type seed

Succulent plants that grow in summer and fall into dormancy in winter. The main flowering time is in summer, but if the weather is too hot, the meat will still be dormant.

Winter type

Growth period in winter, summer is dormant state, known as winter species or dormant plants. The winter here refers to the winter climate of the origin. If the winter temperature is too low, the meat will still be dormant.

It is considerable to say that the succulent plants maintained at home are in a proper temperature, and rarely appear complete dormancy.

meaty name

Yellowing

It refers to the phenomenon that the leaves fade and turn yellow and the stems grow excessively due to the lack of light.

Brocade

Many succulent plant names are followed by brocade characters, but it's unclear what's different. In fact, brocade, also known as colorful brocade, refers to that the whole or part of the stem has lost the function of producing chlorophyll, while other pigments are relatively active, making the stem surface appear red, white, yellow, purple, orange and other color spots.

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