Narcissus is a perennial herbaceous flower. It usually blooms in spring. Narcissus can purify the air. It can be used for medicinal purposes. It is easier to breed water narcissus. It does not require very professional farming knowledge. Please refer to this page for knowledge about the cultivation method of narcissus.
Introduction of Narcissus
Narcissus, a perennial herb of the genus Narcissus, is native to China, and the daffodil is spread all over the country from Jingzhou. It has been cultivated for more than a thousand years in China and is one of the traditional Chinese flowers. There are more than 800 species of this genus in the world, and more than 10 of them are of great ornamental value, such as trumpet daffodils and apron daffodils. Narcissus is distributed in Central Europe, the Mediterranean coast and North Africa. The Chinese narcissus is a variant of the narcissus. The flower is white, with an umbrella inflorescence, and the leaves are narrow and long, and the narcissus root made of it has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Daffodil is for the sake of reminiscence and reunion.
Morphological characteristics of narcissus
Bulbs ovate to broadly ovoid-globose, pubescent. The leaves are long and narrow, 30 to 80 cm long and 1.5 to 4 cm wide. The whole edge has white powder on the surface. The flower buds are extracted from the leaf plexus, higher than the leaf surface; the flowering buds are usually 4 to 5 leaf plexus, 1 to 7 branches per ball, and more than 10 branches; the umbrella inflorescence) 4 to 6 flowers, more than 10 flowers; flowers white, aromatic; flowering period from January to March.
The narcissus petals are mostly 6 pieces, which resemble an oval shape, with a goose yellow at the end of the petals. There is a bowl-like protective cover on the outside of the flower.
Root: Narcissus is a fibrous root, which grows from the stem disk, milky white, fleshy, cylindrical, without lateral roots, fragile, easy to break, can not be regenerated after breaking, the epidermis layer is composed of single-layer cells, the cross-section is rectangular, the cortex is thin wall The cells are composed of ovals. For the origin of the outside, the old root has an airway.
Bulb: The bulb of Chinese narcissus is conical or oval. The bulb is covered with a yellow-brown paper film called the bulb skin. There are several layers of fleshy, white and husk-shaped bulbs, each with axillary buds, the central part with flower buds, and the base connected to the bulbous disk.
Leaf: The leaves of Chinese narcissus are flat ribbon, pale green, leaf mask frost powder, apex blunt, veins parallel. Mature leaves are 30 to 50 cm long and 1 to 5 cm wide. The base is a milky white sheath scale with no petiole. The cultivated Chinese narcissus usually has 5 to 9 leaves per plant and up to 11 tablets.
Flower: The inflorescence axis is extracted from the leaf cluster, green, cylindrical, hollow; the outer surface has obvious concave and convex prism shape, the epidermis has wax powder; the length is 20 to 45 cm, and the diameter is 2 to 3 mm. Umbrella; florets fan-shaped at the top of the inflorescence axis, surrounded by membranous Buddha flames, usually 3 to 7 small flowers (up to 16); perianth base connate, tubular, lobes 6, open When the flat is like a plate, white; the crown is cupped with goose yellow or bright yellow (called gold gilt silver table. There are still gold gilt gold table - the petal sub-crown is yellow; silver enamel silver table - petal sub-crown is white) . Stamens 6, 1 pistil, 3 stigmas.
Fruit: small hazelnut. The capsule is developed from the ovary and is cracked by the back after ripening. Chinese narcissus is triploid and does not grow.
Narcissus ecological habits
Sexually warm, moist, and well-drained. It is best to use loose and fertile soil and deep alluvial sandy loam soil, and it should be grown from ph5 to 7.5. I like the sunshine. Daffodils are sunny and warm, and during the day the narcissus pots should be placed in a sunny place to give plenty of light. Because plants need to provide nutrients through chlorophyll through photosynthesis so that the leaves of the daffodils can be thick and straight, the leaves are bright green, and the flowers are fragrant. On the contrary, the leaves are tall and thin, weak, and the leaves are yellow and not even flowering.
Daffodil cultivation techniques
Narcissus cultivation has three methods: dryland cultivation, paddy field cultivation and soilless cultivation.
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