Chinese name: Wu Shi Hua

Latin name: Pentapetes phoenicea L.

Aliases: Banzhilian, pine-leaf peony, purslane, Nightfall money

Genus: flor impia

Distribution area: native to India

English name: flor impia

1. Noon Flower shape

The noon flower is an annual herb, with a height of 0.5 to 1 meter, with sparse stellate pubescence, and the leaves are strip-lanceolate, with a length of 5 cm to 10 cm. cm, one to two centimeters in width, the top is gradually sharp, the root is broad triangular or round, truncate, with blunt serrations at the edge, and the length of the petiole is one to 2.5 cm. The flowers grow between the leaf axils, there are one or two flowers, and the flowers will open at noon and close automatically the next morning. Five sepals, lanceolate, about one centimeter long, with stellate pubescent outside.

2. Components of Noon Flowers

The whole plant of Noon Flowers contains portulal, portu-lol, portulic acid ), portulic lacton, 3-hydroxyportulolether, 5-hydro-xyportulal, 5-hydroxy purslanic acid (5- hydroxyportulic acid), portulenone, poriulenol, portulene, amaranthin, lindi-caxanthin ), red fruit humilixanihin (humilixanihin), betaalamic acid (betaamic acid), betaidin (betanidin), isobetadin (isobetanidin), betaine glycosides (beianin), isobetaine glycosides (isobeianin) and the like.

3. Cultivation of noon flowers

The cultivation of noon flowers can be propagated by seed sowing, which should be sown in open field seedbeds or flower pots from March to April every year. It is good to soak the capsule seeds in warm water for a while. The soil can also be lightly mixed with manure or compost. Seedlings emerge 7-10 days after sowing, and those soaking seeds in warm water can do so in advance. After a seedling transplant, plant in the open field or in a pot in mid-June, with a plant spacing of 30 cm and a row spacing of 40 cm. Before planting, apply a small amount of well-rotted cake fertilizer as base fertilizer. When fertilizing Yeluo money during the growth period, it should be noted that the number of top-dressing fertilizers should not be too much, nor should it be too thick. Generally, thin cake fertilizer and water should be applied every half month, and the last cake fertilizer and water should be applied before flowering. When it is necessary to add 0.1% potassium dihydrogen phosphate to increase the hardness of the stem.

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