Another name for hanging bamboo plum

Hanging bamboo plum, also known as hanging bamboo orchid and spotted Commelina, is a perennial herbaceous foliage plant of Commelinaceae and hanging bamboo plum. The stem is soft, weak and brittle, and the grape is creeping on the ground

Because its leaves look like bamboo and its leaves are beautiful, it is often hung indoors with potted plants to watch its scattered and soft hanging stems and leaves, so it is called hanging bamboo plum

Morphological characteristics of hanging bamboo plum

Hanging bamboo plum is a perennial herb with slightly weak, green and drooping stems, which is semi fleshy

Branches of Phyllostachys praecox, rooting on nodes; It is generally oblong, scattered or hanging, about 1 meter long

The leaves of hanging bamboo plum have no handle, the shape is oval oval to rectangular round, 3 ~ 7 cm long and 1.5 ~ 3 cm wide, the apex is short and sharp, the upper part is purple green and mixed with silver white, the middle edge is purple stripe, the lower part is purple red, and the top and base of the sheath are sparsely hairy

The florets of Phyllostachys praecox are white and axillary, the flowers are gathered in a large and small terminal bract leaf, sepals 3, connate into a cylindrical tube, about 6 mm long, corolla tube white, slender, about 1 cm long, lobes 3, rose, about 3 mm long, stamens 6; Ovary 3-loculed

Hanging bamboo plum fruit is a capsule with uncertain flowering period

Function and value of hanging bamboo plum

Hanging bamboo plum is often used as a small potted ornamental

Due to the rapid growth of hanging bamboo plum, the basin can be covered in one year, the branches and leaves are creeping and hanging, and the leaf colors are purple, green and silver. It is placed on the top of several high shelves and cabinets, which can be hung and appreciated. Or arranged above the windowsill to make it sag to form a green curtain

Courtyard cultivation is often used for overall layout. Sometimes the flowers and leaves of the plant can turn into green leaves. At this time, they should be removed in time to avoid all the leaves of the whole plant turning green

In addition, hanging bamboo plum can also be used as medicine. It is also known as Phyllostachys kaempferi, Phyllostachys pubescens and Commelina plantaris. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood, hemostasis and diuresis

Flower language of hanging bamboo plum

The flower language of hanging bamboo plum is simple, pure, elegant, naive, hopeful and quiet. They are half innocent and uncontested with the world