Nyctaginaceae Mirabilis Jalapa Beautiful bloom at night. This flower is commonly called tuberous which is an annual herbaceous plant, often cultivated as an annual crop. These plants originated from Central America and South America.
Earlier this plant grows as a dense upright shrub, much branched, with large heart-shaped leaves and dark green, shiny, and shaped base. Produces fragrant flowers and a lot in the summer. The color of these flowers ranging from yellow, red, pink, white to bicolored, there is also the same plant in bloom with flowers of different colors.
This interest will begin to open its petals at dusk. These plants produce many seeds are fertile, woody, with a color of black beans and egg shape.
Flowers are blooming and beautiful at night and usually grow a brighter place, preferably in full sun, at least for a few hours a day. If the air cools the plant tends to be dry and disappear completely.
Tubers remain in soil and will produce new plants the following year. But only in temperate places, like the harsh winter in the places you can check the tubers and store them in the ground where sheltered until spring. But this is not necessary because the new plants grow from seeds that fell in large quantities by plants.
This herbaceous plant watering needs frequent watering, the need for water is relatively abundant from April to October. Especially in the hottest period of each year this will leave the crops were dry between waterings substrate. Add fertilizer for flowering plants is required by mixing manure with water and sprayed every 15-20 days.
That plants need planting medium is soil that has a great need in connection with the ground, easily grown in any garden soil, prefers loose soil, well drained and fertile.
Propagation is by seed plants, you can sow the seeds in March, April or directly to homes. Pests and diseases that often strike is Aphids, which usually can damage the flower and leaf buds.
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