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Gladiola Uses

Used and legends
Used
Dead flowers on the graves is a virgin sacrifice. For other purposes, as though this is to live in the West almost a virgin dedicated to the dead man’s grave is said.

Legend
King of any country (King) was 20 weeks leave a bottle of the princess died. Princess to the King as he dies, bury the two dogs was homesick said. Homesick as the king and bury her daughter’s will, and gave it to her maid, maids opened the bottle and was curious enough. Perfume bottle opens, flew away. Maids a rush I just do not smell the flowers The place was buried byeongmaneul pieonatda 10,002. King angrily killed the maid, the maid, after the death of an intense perfume that the flowers will bloom had taken. The flowers are very geulradiolreoseuda.

Source: http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%80%EB%9D%BC%EB%94%94%EC%98%AC%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4

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1000 Blue Bird

1000 Blue Bird (scientific name: Rodriguezia lanceolata), also known as RU’s blue red, is the Cymbidium orchid RU’s, located in Trinidad, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil, often in the small Antilles to Central America and tropical South America 0-1500 m above sea level of the tropical rainforest epiphytes.

Generic name is to commemorate the Spanish botanist 唐曼纽尔罗 Rodriguez (Don Manuel Rodriguez) is named.

1000 Blue Bird was included in the “Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora International Trade Convention” (CITES) in Appendix Ⅱ.

Features

Pseudobulb oblong, flat, 2-3 cm long, 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves pinnate, hard, narrowly lanceolate, up to 20 cm, width 3 cm. Most of the root, some roots to air, covered with root is.

Stems 35 cm long, erect or arched, hairy. Germinating plants can grow 1-5 pseudobulb. Flowers deep pink or dark red, 1.3-2.5 cm in diameter. Labellum obovate long, wavy edge, the top obviously raised, up to 1 cm, 0.5 cm wide.

Base of column with teeth. Stem with a growth cone, nearly cylindrical. Flowering year, many, flowering for 2 months.

Cultivation

Hi warm or a hot environment , light scattering, 10-15 1 000 lux, the environment must be kept moist, but too much water will lead to fungal and bacterial diseases. For planting in pots or baskets, or epiphytic on large stones, because stones suitable for their growth.

When planted in pots or baskets should be at the bottom of the mat conifer bark. Pentu should be evenly mixed with peat moss. When the pad material begins to decompose after the transplant.

Source: http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E5%8D%83%E9%B3%A5%E8%98%AD

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist

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Pieris (plant)

Pieris is a genus of heifamilie (Ericaceae). The genus includes seven species. The species occur in mountainous regions in Southeast Asia, eastern North America and Cuba.

The plants have narrow, evergreen leaves. The length of the plant ranges from 1-6 m. The leaves are oval and there are several leaves at the end of each branch. The leaves are lanceolate and are 2-10 cm long and 1 to 3.5 cm wide with a leathery texture.

Flowering is in April and May The flowers are bell-shaped and 0.5 to 1.5 cm long. At each end of a branch hanging several racemes of 5-12 cm. The fruit is a dry fruit containing several seeds.

Pieris species as host plants used by larvae and several species of butterflies.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieris_%28plant%29

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist

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